Isaiah 25

1Yahweh, you are my God. I will exalt you! I will praise your name, for you have done wonderful things, things planned long ago, in complete faithfulness and truth.Cross-references: Ex 15:2 · Num 23:19 · 1Chr 29:10 · Ps 33:10 · Ps 40:5 · Ps 46:10 · +22 more

2For you have made a city into a heap, a fortified city into a ruin, a palace of strangers to be no city. It will never be built.Cross-references: Deut 13:16 · Isa 13:22 · Isa 14:23 · Isa 17:1 · Isa 17:3 · Isa 21:9 · +6 more

3Therefore a strong people will glorify you. A city of awesome nations will fear you.Cross-references: Ps 46:10 · Ps 66:3 · Ps 72:8 · Isa 13:11 · Isa 49:23 · Isa 60:10 · +7 more

4For you have been a stronghold to the poor, a stronghold to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shade from the heat, when the blast of the dreaded ones is like a storm against the wall.Cross-references: Job 5:15 · Ps 12:5 · Ps 35:10 · Ps 72:4 · Ps 72:13 · Ps 107:41 · +20 more

5As the heat in a dry place you will bring down the noise of strangers; as the heat by the shade of a cloud, the song of the dreaded ones will be brought low.Cross-references: Job 8:16 · Ps 74:3 · Ps 79:10 · Ps 105:39 · Isa 10:8 · Isa 10:32 · +20 more

6In this mountain, Yahweh of Armies will make all peoples a feast of choice meat, a feast of choice wines, of choice meat full of marrow, of well refined choice wines.Cross-references: Ps 63:5 · Ps 72:14 · Ps 78:68 · Prov 9:1 · Song 1:2 · Song 1:4 · +22 more

7He will destroy in this mountain the surface of the covering that covers all peoples, and the veil that is spread over all nations.Cross-references: Isa 60:1 · Matt 27:51 · Luke 2:32 · Acts 17:30 · 2Cor 3:13 · Eph 3:5 · +5 more

8He has swallowed up death forever! The Lord Yahweh will wipe away tears from off all faces. He will take the reproach of his people away from off all the earth, for Yahweh has spoken it.Cross-references: Ps 69:9 · Ps 89:50 · Isa 30:19 · Isa 30:26 · Isa 35:10 · Isa 37:3 · +17 more

9It shall be said in that day, “Behold, this is our God! We have waited for him, and he will save us! This is Yahweh! We have waited for him. We will be glad and rejoice in his salvation!”Cross-references: Gen 49:18 · Ps 9:14 · Ps 20:5 · Ps 21:1 · Ps 27:14 · Ps 37:5 · +32 more

10For Yahweh’s hand will rest in this mountain. Moab will be trodden down in his place, even like straw is trodden down in the water of the dunghill.Cross-references: Num 24:17 · Ps 83:10 · Ps 132:13 · Isa 5:25 · Isa 10:6 · Isa 10:31 · +17 more

11He will spread out his hands in the middle of it, like one who swims spreads out hands to swim, but his pride will be humbled together with the craft of his hands.Cross-references: Ps 2:5 · Ps 2:8 · Ps 110:1 · Isa 2:11 · Isa 5:25 · Isa 10:33 · +16 more

12He has brought the high fortress of your walls down, laid low, and brought to the ground, even to the dust.Cross-references: Isa 13:19 · Isa 14:23 · Isa 15:1 · Isa 26:5 · Jer 51:58 · Jer 51:64 · +3 more