Isaiah Chapter 25

From The Open Bible Project

25:1 Yahweh, 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.

  • (a) Thus the prophet gives thanks to God because he will bring under subjection these nations by his corrections, and make them of his Church, who before were his enemies.

25:2 For 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.

  • (b) Not only of Jerusalem, but also of these other cities which have been your enemies.
  • (c) That is, a place where all vagabonds may live without danger and as it were at ease as in a palace.

25:3 Therefore a strong people will glorify you. A city of awesome nations will fear you.

  • (d) The arrogant and proud who before would not know you will by your corrections fear and glorify you.

25:4 For 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.

  • (e) The rage of the wicked is furious, till God breaks the force of it.

25:5 As the heat in a dry place will you 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.

  • (f) Meaning, that as the heat is abated by the rain, so shall God bring down the rage of the wicked.
  • (g) As a cloud shades from the heat of the sun, so God will assuage the rejoicing of the wicked against the godly.

25:6 In this mountain, Yahweh of Armies will make all peoples a feast of fat things, a feast of choice wines, of fat things full of marrow, of well refined choice wines.

  • (h) That is, in Zion, by which he means his Church, which would under Christ be assembled of the Jews and the Gentiles, and is here described under the figure of a costly banquet, as in (Matthew 22:2).

25:7 He will destroy in this mountain the surface of the covering that covers all peoples, and the veil that is spread over all nations.

  • (i) Meaning, that ignorance and blindness, by which we are kept back from Christ.

25:8 He 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.

25:9 It 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!"

25:10 For in this mountain the hand of Yahweh will rest. Moab will be trodden down in his place, even like straw is trodden down in the water of the dunghill.

  • (l) By Moab are meant all the enemies of his Church.
  • (m) There were two cities by this name: one in Judah, (1 Chronicles 6:81) and another in the land of Moab, (Jeremiah 48:2) which seems to have been a plentiful place of corn, (Isaiah 36:17).

25:11 He will spread out his hands in its midst, like one who swims spreads out hands to swim, but his pride will be humbled together with the craft of his hands.

25:12 He has brought the high fortress of your walls down, laid low, and brought to the ground, even to the dust.

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