Isaiah:25-28

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* O LORD , thou art my God ; I will exalt thee , I will praise thy name ; for thou hast done wonderful things ; thy counsels of old are faithfulness and truth . * For thou hast made of a city an heap ; of a defenced city a ruin : a palace of strangers to be no city ; it shall never be built . * Therefore shall the strong people glorify thee , the city of the terrible nations shall fear thee . * For thou hast been a strength to the poor , a strength to the needy in his distress , a refuge from the storm , a shadow from the heat , when the blast of the terrible ones is as a storm against the wall . * Thou shalt bring down the noise of strangers , as the heat in a dry place ; even the heat with the shadow of a cloud : the branch of the terrible ones shall be brought low . * And in this mountain shall the LORD of hosts make unto all people a feast of fat things , a feast of wines on the lees , of fat things full of marrow , of wines on the lees well refined . * And he will destroy in this mountain the face of the covering cast over all people , and the vail that is spread over all nations . * He will swallow up death in victory ; and the Lord GOD will wipe away tears from off all faces ; and the rebuke of his people shall he take away from off all the earth : for the LORD hath spoken it . * And it shall be said in that day , Lo , this is our God ; we have waited for him , and he will save us : this is the LORD ; we have waited for him , we will be glad and rejoice in his salvation y @shuw #ah #. * For in this mountain shall the hand of the LORD rest , and Moab shall be trodden down under him , even as straw is trodden down for the dunghill b @mow # . * And he shall spread forth his hands in the midst of them , as he that swimmeth spreadeth forth his hands to swim : and he shall bring down their pride together with the spoils of their hands . * And the fortress of the high fort of thy walls shall he bring down , lay low , and bring to the ground , even to the dust . * In that day shall this song be sung in the land of Judah ; We have a strong city ; salvation will God appoint for walls and bulwarks . * Open ye the gates sha #ar #, that the righteous nation which keepeth the truth may enter in . * Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace , whose mind is stayed on thee : because he trusteth in thee . * Trust ye in the LORD for ever : for in the LORD JEHOVAH is everlasting strength : * For he bringeth down them that dwell on high ; the lofty city , he layeth it low ; he layeth it low , even to the ground ; he bringeth it even to the dust . * The foot shall tread it down , even the feet of the poor , and the steps of the needy . * The way of the just is uprightness : thou , most upright , dost weigh the path of the just . * Yea , in the way of thy judgments , O LORD , have we waited for thee ; the desire of our soul is to thy name , and to the remembrance of thee . * With my soul have I desired thee in the night ; yea , with my spirit within me will I seek thee early : for when thy judgments are in the earth , the inhabitants of the world will learn righteousness . * Let favour be shewed to the wicked , yet will he not learn righteousness : in the land of uprightness will he deal unjustly , and will not behold the majesty of the LORD . * LORD , when thy hand is lifted up , they will not see : but they shall see , and be ashamed for their envy at the people ; yea , the fire of thine enemies shall devour them . * LORD , thou wilt ordain peace for us : for thou also hast wrought all our works in us . * O LORD our God , other lords beside thee have had dominion over us : but by thee only will we make mention of thy name . * They are dead , they shall not live ; they are deceased , they shall not rise : therefore hast thou visited and destroyed them , and made all their memory to perish . * Thou hast increased the nation , O LORD , thou hast increased the nation : thou art glorified : thou hadst removed it far unto all the ends of the earth . * LORD , in trouble have they visited thee , they poured out a prayer when thy chastening was upon them . * Like as a woman with child , that draweth near the time of her delivery , is in pain , and crieth out in her pangs ; so have we been in thy sight , O LORD . * We have been with child , we have been in pain , we have as it were brought forth wind ; we have not wrought any deliverance in the earth ; neither have the inhabitants of the world fallen . * Thy dead men shall live , together with my dead body shall they arise . Awake and sing , ye that dwell in dust : for thy dew is as the dew of herbs , and the earth shall cast out the dead . * Come , my people , enter thou into thy chambers , and shut thy doors about thee : hide thyself as it were for a little moment , until the indignation be overpast . * For , behold , the LORD cometh out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity : the earth also shall disclose her blood , and shall no more cover her slain . * In that day the LORD with his sore and great and strong sword shall punish leviathan the piercing serpent , even leviathan that crooked serpent ; and he shall slay the dragon that is in the sea . * In that day sing ye unto her , A vineyard of red wine . * I the LORD do keep it ; I will water it every moment : lest any hurt it , I will keep it night and day . * Fury is not in me : who would set the briers and thorns against me in battle ? I would go through them , I would burn them together . * Or let him take hold of my strength ma #owz #, that he may make peace with me ; and he shall make peace with me . * He shall cause them that come of Jacob to take root : Israel shall blossom and bud , and fill the face of the world with fruit . * Hath he smitten him , as he smote those that smote him ? or is he slain according to the slaughter of them that are slain by him ? * In measure ca #c @#ah #, when it shooteth forth , thou wilt debate with it : he stayeth his rough wind in the day of the east wind . * By this therefore shall the iniquity of Jacob be purged ; and this is all the fruit to take away his sin chatta #ah #; when he maketh all the stones of the altar as chalkstones that are beaten in sunder , the groves and images shall not stand up . * Yet the defenced city shall be desolate , and the habitation forsaken , and left like a wilderness : there shall the calf feed , and there shall he lie down , and consume the branches thereof . * When the boughs thereof are withered , they shall be broken off : the women come , and set them on fire : for it is a people of no understanding : therefore he that made them will not have mercy on them , and he that formed them will shew them no favour . * And it shall come to pass in that day , that the LORD shall beat off from the channel of the river unto the stream of Egypt , and ye shall be gathered one by one , O ye children of Israel Yisra #el #. * And it shall come to pass in that day , that the great trumpet shall be blown , and they shall come which were ready to perish in the land of Assyria , and the outcasts in the land of Egypt , and shall worship the LORD in the holy mount at Jerusalem . * Woe to the crown of pride ge #uwth #, to the drunkards of Ephraim , whose glorious beauty is a fading flower , which are on the head of the fat valleys of them that are overcome with wine ! * Behold , the Lord hath a mighty and strong one , which as a tempest of hail and a destroying storm sa #ar #, as a flood of mighty waters overflowing , shall cast down to the earth with the hand . * The crown of pride ge #uwth #, the drunkards of Ephraim , shall be trodden under feet : * And the glorious beauty tiph #arah #, which is on the head of the fat valley , shall be a fading flower , and as the hasty fruit before the summer ; which when he that looketh upon it seeth , while it is yet in his hand he eateth it up . * In that day shall the LORD of hosts be for a crown of glory , and for a diadem of beauty tiph #arah #, unto the residue of his people , * And for a spirit of judgment to him that sitteth in judgment , and for strength to them that turn the battle to the gate sha #ar #. * But they #el-leh # also have erred through wine , and through strong drink are out of the way ; the priest and the prophet have erred through strong drink , they are swallowed up of wine , they are out of the way through strong drink ; they err in vision ro #eh #, they stumble in judgment . * For all tables are full of vomit and filthiness tsow #ah #, so that there is no place clean . * Whom shall he teach knowledge de #ah #? and whom shall he make to understand doctrine sh @muw #ah #? them that are weaned from the milk , and drawn from the breasts . * For precept must be upon precept , precept upon precept ; line upon line , line upon line ; here a little ze #eyr #, and there a little ze #eyr #: * For with stammering lips and another tongue will he speak to this people . * To whom he said , This is the rest wherewith ye may cause the weary to rest ; and this is the refreshing marge #ah #: yet they would not hear . * But the word of the LORD was unto them precept upon precept , precept upon precept ; line upon line , line upon line ; here a little ze #eyr #, and there a little ze #eyr #; that they might go , and fall backward , and be broken , and snared , and taken . * Wherefore hear the word of the LORD , ye scornful men , that rule this people which is in Jerusalem . * Because ye have said , We have made a covenant with death , and with hell are we at agreement ; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through (8675 ), it shall not come unto us : for we have made lies our refuge , and under falsehood have we hid ourselves : * Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD , Behold , I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone , a tried stone , a precious corner stone , a sure foundation : he that believeth shall not make haste . * Judgment also will I lay to the line , and righteousness to the plummet : and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies , and the waters shall overflow the hiding place . * And your covenant with death shall be disannulled , and your agreement with hell shall not stand ; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through , then ye shall be trodden down by it . * From the time that it goeth forth it shall take you : for morning by morning shall it pass over , by day and by night : and it shall be a vexation only to understand the report sh @muw #ah #. * For the bed is shorter than that a man can stretch himself on it : and the covering narrower than that he can wrap himself in it . * For the LORD shall rise up as in mount Perazim , he shall be wroth as in the valley of Gibeon Gib #own #, that he may do his work ma #aseh #, his strange work ma #aseh #; and bring to pass his act , his strange act . * Now therefore be ye not mockers , lest your bands be made strong : for I have heard from the Lord GOD of hosts a consumption , even determined upon the whole earth . * Give ye ear , and hear my voice ; hearken , and hear my speech . * Doth the plowman plow all day to sow ? doth he open and break the clods of his ground ? * When he hath made plain the face thereof , doth he not cast abroad the fitches , and scatter the cummin , and cast in the principal wheat and the appointed barley and the rie in their place ? * For his God doth instruct him to discretion , and doth teach him . * For the fitches are not threshed with a threshing instrument , neither is a cart wheel turned about upon the cummin ; but the fitches are beaten out with a staff , and the cummin with a rod . * Bread corn is bruised ; because he will not ever be threshing # it , nor break it with the wheel of his cart , nor bruise it with his horsemen . * This also cometh forth from the LORD of hosts , which is wonderful in counsel , and excellent in working . * Woe to Ariel #Ari #el #, to Ariel #Ari #el #, the city where David dwelt ! add ye year to year ; let them kill sacrifices .

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