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1 O Lord, you are my God; I will exalt you and praise your name, for in perfect faithfulness you have done marvelous things, things planned long ago.
2 You have made the city a heap of rubble, the fortified town a ruin, the foreigners' stronghold a city no more; it will never be rebuilt.
3 Therefore strong peoples will honor you; cities of ruthless nations will revere you.
4 You have been a refuge for the poor, a refuge for the needy in his distress, a shelter from the storm and a shade from the heat. For the breath of the ruthless is like a storm driving against a wall
5 and like the heat of the desert. You silence the uproar of foreigners; as heat is reduced by the shadow of a cloud, so the song of the ruthless is stilled.
6 On this mountain the Lord Almighty will prepare a feast of rich food for all peoples, a banquet of aged wine—the best of meats and the finest of wines.
7 On this mountain he will destroy the shroud that enfolds all peoples, the sheet that covers all nations;
8 he will swallow up death forever. The Sovereign Lord will wipe away the tears from all faces; he will remove the disgrace of his people from all the earth. The Lord has spoken.
9 In that day they will say, "Surely this is our God; we trusted in him, and he saved us. This is the Lord, we trusted in him; let us rejoice and be glad in his salvation."
10 The hand of the Lord will rest on this mountain; but Moab will be trampled under him as straw is trampled down in the manure.
11 They will spread out their hands in it, as a swimmer spreads out his hands to swim. God will bring down their pride despite the cleverness of their hands.
12 He will bring down your high fortified walls and lay them low; he will bring them down to the ground, to the very dust.
Revised Chapter 25 enrols the first five verses of the canonical chapter, imports twenty-one more from seven chapters and carries the title, "Psalms of Praise To God."
6-8. On this mountain the Lord Almighty will prepare a feast of rich food for all peoples, a banquet of aged wine—the best of meats and the finest of wines. 7 On this mountain he will destroy the shroud that enfolds all peoples, the sheet that covers all nations; 8 he will swallow up death forever. The Sovereign Lord will wipe away the tears from all faces; he will remove the disgrace of his people from all the earth. The Lord has spoken.
Analysis: These three verses have no kinship with the preceding five. The clause, "On this mountain," (verses 6 and 7) together with the protagonist ("the Lord Almighty") and his action ("he will swallow up death forever") situate verses 6-8 in Revised Chapter 2, "The Mountain of The Lord."
9. In that day they will say, "Surely this is our God; we trusted in him, and he saved us. This is the Lord, we trusted in him; let us rejoice and be glad in his salvation."
Caution: The sentence that ends verse 8, "The Lord has spoken," connotes a possible change of setting for verse 9.
Analysis: The people of verse 9 trusted God and God saved them, not from death (v 8) but from calamity. The miraculous salvation of the people that God manifested during the monarchies of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz and Hezekiah was the deliverance of Jerusalem in the days of the fourth monarch (Isaiah 37:33-37). The future tense ("In that day they will say") dates this verse prior to the actual event. Verse 9 repeats Isaiah 12:1-3, the four verses belong in the same revised chapter.
Destination: Revised Chapter 8, "Assyria Will Invade Judah."
10-12. The hand of the Lord will rest on this mountain; but Moab will be trampled under him as straw is trampled down in the manure. 11 They will spread out their hands in it, as a swimmer spreads out his hands to swim. God will bring down their pride despite the cleverness of their hands. 12 He will bring down your high fortified walls and lay them low; he will bring them down to the ground, to the very dust.
Analysis: "This mountain" turns out to be Mount Zion or more precisely "the mount of the Daughter of Zion" (Isaiah 16:1).
Destination: Obviously Revised Chapter 15, "Moab."
26:3. You will keep in perfect peace him whose mind is steadfast, because he trusts in you.
26:7-14. The path of the righteous is level; O upright One, you make the way of the righteous smooth. 8 Yes, Lord, walking in the way of your laws, we wait for you; your name and renown are the desire of our hearts. 9 My soul yearns for you in the night; in the morning my spirit longs for you. When your judgments come upon the earth, the people of the world learn righteousness. 10 Though grace is shown to the wicked, they do not learn righteousness; even in a land of uprightness they go on doing evil and regard not the majesty of the Lord. 11 O Lord, your hand is lifted high, but they do not see it. Let them see your zeal for your people and be put to shame; let the fire reserved for your enemies consume them. 12 Lord, you establish peace for us; all that we have accomplished you have done for us. 13 O Lord, our God, other lords besides you have ruled over us, but your name alone do we honor. 14 They are now dead, they live no more; those departed spirits do not rise. You punished them and brought them to ruin; you wiped out all memory of them.
26:16. Lord, they came to you in their distress; when you disciplined them, they could barely whisper a prayer.
26:17-18. As a woman with child and about to give birth writhes and cries out in her pain, so were we in your presence, O Lord. 18 We were with child, we writhed in pain, but we gave birth to wind. We have not brought salvation to the earth; we have not given birth to people of the world.
33:2. O Lord, be gracious to us; we long for you. Be our strength every morning, our salvation in time of distress.
42:10-12. Sing to the Lord a new song, his praise from the ends of the earth, you who go down to the sea, and all that is in it, you islands, and all who live in them. 11 Let the desert and its towns raise their voices; let the settlements where Kedar lives rejoice. Let the people of Sela sing for joy; let them shout from the mountaintops. 12 Let them give glory to the Lord and proclaim his praise in the islands.
42:21. It pleased the Lord for the sake of his righteousness to make his law great and glorious.
45:15. Truly you are a God who hides himself, O God and Savior of Israel.
47:4. Our Redeemer—the Lord Almighty is his name—is the Holy One of Israel.
61:10. I delight greatly in the Lord; my soul rejoices in my God. For he has clothed me with garments of salvation and arrayed me in a robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom adorns his head like a priest, and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.
65:1. I revealed myself to those who did not ask for me; I was found by those who did not seek me. To a nation that did not call on my name, I said, "Here am I, here am I."
1 O Lord, you are my God; I will exalt you and praise your name, for in perfect faithfulness you have done marvelous things, things planned long ago. 2 You have made the city a heap of rubble, the fortified town a ruin, the foreigners' stronghold a city no more; it will never be rebuilt. 3 Therefore strong peoples will honor you; cities of ruthless nations will revere you. 4 You have been a refuge for the poor, a refuge for the needy in his distress, a shelter from the storm and a shade from the heat. For the breath of the ruthless is like a storm driving against a wall 5 and like the heat of the desert. You silence the uproar of foreigners as heat is reduced by the shadow of a cloud, so the song of the ruthless is stilled.
26:13 O Lord, our God, other lords besides you have ruled over us, but your name alone do we honor. 26:14 They are now dead, they live no more; those departed spirits do not rise. You punished them and brought them to ruin; you wiped out all memory of them. 47:4 Our Redeemer—the Lord Almighty is his name—is the Holy One of Israel.
61:10 I delight greatly in the Lord; my soul rejoices in my God. For he has clothed me with garments of salvation and arrayed me in a robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom adorns his head like a priest, and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels. First Half of 26:9 My soul yearns for you in the night; in the morning my spirit longs for you. 33:2 O Lord, be gracious to us; we long for you. Be our strength every morning, our salvation in time of distress. 26:3 You will keep in perfect peace him whose mind is steadfast because he trusts in you.
42:21 It pleased the Lord for the sake of his righteousness to make his law great and glorious. 26:7 The path of the righteous is level; O upright One, you make the way of the righteous smooth. 26:8 Yes, Lord, walking in the way of your laws, we wait for you; your name and renown are the desire of our hearts. Second Half of 26:9 When your judgments come upon the earth, the people of the world learn righteousness. 26:16 Lord, they came to you in their distress; when you disciplined them, they could barely whisper a prayer.
26:12 Lord, you establish peace for us; all that we have accomplished you have done for us. 26:17 As a woman with child and about to give birth writhes and cries out in her pain, so were we in your presence, O Lord. 26:18 We were with child, we writhed in pain, but we gave birth to wind. We have not brought salvation to the earth; we have not given birth to people of the world.
45:15 Truly you are a God who hides himself, O God and Savior of Israel. 26:10 Though grace is shown to the wicked, they do not learn righteousness; even in a land of uprightness they go on doing evil and regard not the majesty of the Lord. 26:11 O Lord, your hand is lifted high, but they do not see it. Let them see your zeal for your people and be put to shame; let the fire reserved for your enemies consume them.
65:1 I revealed myself to those who did not ask for me; I was found by those who did not seek me. To a nation that did not call on my name, I said, "Here am I, here am I."
42:10 Sing to the Lord a new song, his praise from the ends of the earth, you who go down to the sea, and all that is in it, you islands, and all who live in them.
42:11 Let the desert and its towns raise their voices; let the settlements where Kedar lives rejoice. Let the people of Sela sing for joy; let them shout from the mountaintops.
42:12 Let them give glory to the Lord and proclaim his praise in the islands.
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