Isaiah 25-26

Complete Jewish Bible

² For you have made a city a heap of stones,
turned a fortified city into rubble,
made the foreigners’ fortress
a city that will never be rebuilt.
³ Therefore mighty peoples glorify you,
the city of ruthless nations fears you.
⁴ For you have been a refuge for the poor,
a refuge for the needy in distress,
shelter from the storm,
shade from the heat —
for the blast from the ruthless
was like a storm that could destroy a wall.
⁵ Like desert heat, you subdue
the foreigners’ uproar;
like heat subdued by a cloud’s shadow,
the song of the ruthless dies away.

⁶ On this mountain Adonai-Tzva’ot
will make for all peoples
a feast of rich food and superb wines,
delicious, rich food and superb, elegant wines.
⁷ On this mountain he will destroy
the veil which covers the face of all peoples,
the veil enshrouding all the nations.
⁸ He will swallow up death forever.
Adonai Elohim will wipe away
the tears from every face,
and he will remove from all the earth
the disgrace his people suffer.
For Adonai has spoken.

⁹ On that day they will say,
“See! This is our God!
We waited for him to save us.
This is Adonai ; we put our hope in him.
We are full of joy, so glad he saved us!”
¹⁰ For on this mountain
the hand of Adonai will rest.

But Mo’av will be trampled down where they are,
like straw trampled into a pile of manure.
¹¹ They will spread out their hands in Mo’av,
like a swimmer using his hands to tread water;
but their pride will be humbled and sunk,
no matter how clever the strokes of their hands.
¹² Your high, fortified walls he will level,
strike to the ground, lay in the dust.

26 On that day this song will be sung
in the land of Y’hudah:
“We have a strong city!
He has built walls and ramparts for our safety.
² Open the gates! Let the righteous nation enter,
a nation that keeps faith!
³ “A person whose desire rests on you
you preserve in perfect peace,
because he trusts in you.
⁴ Trust in Adonai forever,
because in Yah Adonai,
is a Rock of Ages.”

⁵ For he has humbled those in high places,
levelling the lofty city,
levelling it to the ground,
laying it in the dust.
⁶ It is trampled underfoot by the feet of the poor,
by the footsteps of the needy.

⁷ The way of the righteous is level;
Righteous One, you smooth the path for the righteous.
⁸ Following the way of your judgments,
we put our hope in you.
The desire of all our soul
is to remember you and your name.
⁹ My soul desires you at night,
my spirit in me seeks you at dawn;
for when your judgments are here on earth,
the people in the world learn what righteousness is.
¹⁰ Even if pity is shown to the wicked,
he still doesn’t learn what righteousness is.
In a land of uprightness he will still act wrongly
and fail to see the majesty of Adonai.
¹¹ Adonai, you raised your hand,
but they still didn’t see.
Yet with shame they will see your zeal for the people.
Yes, fire will destroy your enemies.
¹² Adonai, you will grant us peace;
because all we have done, you have done for us.
¹³ Adonai our God, other lords
besides you have ruled us,
but only you do we invoke
by name.
¹⁴ The dead will not live again,
the ghosts will not rise again;
for you punished and destroyed them,
wiped out all memory of them.
¹⁵ You enlarged the nation, Adonai,
you enlarged the nation;
and thus you glorified yourself;
you extended all the frontiers of the country.
¹⁶ Adonai, when they were troubled,
they sought you.
When you chastened them,
they poured out a silent prayer.
¹⁷ As a pregnant woman about to give birth
cries out and writhes in her labor pains,
so we have been at your presence, Adonai —
¹⁸ we have been pregnant and been in pain.
But we, as it were, have given birth to wind;
we have not brought salvation to the land,
and those inhabiting the world have not come to life.
¹⁹ Your dead will live, my corpses will rise;
awake and sing, you who dwell in the dust;
for your dew is like the morning dew,
and the earth will bring the ghosts to life.

²⁰ Come, my people, enter your rooms,
and shut your doors behind you.
Hide yourselves for a little while
until the wrath is past.
²¹ For see! Adonai emerges from his place
to punish those on earth for their sin.
Then the earth will reveal the blood shed on it
and no longer conceal its slain.