Isaiah 25

New American Standard Bible

Song of Praise for God’s Favor

25 Lord, You are ^(A)my God;
I will exalt You, I will give thanks to Your name;
For You have ^(B)worked wonders,
^(C)Plans formed long ago, with perfect faithfulness.
²For You have turned a city into a ^(D)heap,
A ^(E)fortified city into a ruin;
A ^(F)palace of strangers is no longer a city,
It will never be rebuilt.
³Therefore a strong people will ^(G)glorify You;
^(H)Cities of ruthless nations will revere You.
⁴For You have been a ^(I)stronghold for the helpless,
A stronghold for the poor in his distress,
A ^(J)refuge from the storm, a shade from the heat;
For the breath of the ^(K)ruthless
Is like a rain storm against a wall.
⁵Like heat in a dry land, You subdue the ^(L)uproar of foreigners;
Like heat by the shadow of a cloud, the song of the ruthless is ^[a]silenced.

⁶^(M)Now the Lord of armies will prepare a ^[b]lavish banquet for ^(N)all peoples on this mountain;
A banquet of ^[c]aged wine, ^[d]choice pieces with marrow,
And ^[e]refined, aged wine.
⁷And on this mountain He will destroy the ^[f]^(O)covering which is over all peoples,
The veil which is ^[g]stretched over all nations.
⁸He will ^[h]^(P)swallow up death for all time,
And the Lord ^[i]God will ^(Q)wipe tears away from all faces,
And He will remove the ^(R)disgrace of His people from all the earth;
For the Lord has spoken.
⁹And it will be said on that day,
“Behold, ^(S)this is our God for whom we have ^(T)waited ^[j]that ^(U)He might save us.
This is the Lord for whom we have waited;
^(V)Let’s rejoice and be glad in His salvation.”
¹⁰For the hand of the Lord will rest on this mountain,
And ^(W)Moab will be trampled down in his place
As straw is trampled down in the water of a manure pile.
¹¹And he will ^(X)spread out his hands in the middle of it
As a swimmer spreads out his hands to swim,
But the Lord will ^(Y)lay low his pride together with the trickery of his hands.
¹²The ^(Z)unassailable fortifications of your walls He will bring down,
Lay low, and throw to the ground, to the dust.

Footnotes

Isaiah 25:5 Lit humbled
Isaiah 25:6 Lit feast of fat things; i.e., abundance
Isaiah 25:6 Lit wine on the lees
Isaiah 25:6 Lit fat pieces
Isaiah 25:6 Lit wine refined on the lees
Isaiah 25:7 Lit face of the covering
Isaiah 25:7 Lit woven
Isaiah 25:8 I.e., destroy
Isaiah 25:8 Heb YHWH, usually rendered Lord
Isaiah 25:9 Or and He saved us

1 John 3

New American Standard Bible

Children of God Love One Another

3 See ^[a]^(A)how great a love the Father has given us, that we would be called ^(B)children of God; and in fact we are. For this reason the world does not know us: because ^(C)it did not know Him. ²^(D)Beloved, now we are ^(E)children of God, and ^(F)it has not appeared as yet what we will be. We know that when He ^(G)appears, we will be ^(H)like Him, because we will ^(I)see Him just as He is. ³And everyone who has this ^(J)hope set on Him ^(K)purifies himself, just as He is pure.

⁴Everyone who practices sin also practices lawlessness; and ^(L)sin is lawlessness. ⁵You know that He ^(M)appeared in order to ^(N)take away sins; and ^(O)in Him there is no sin. ⁶No one who remains in Him ^(P)sins continually; no one who sins continually has seen Him or ^[b]^(Q)knows Him. ⁷^(R)Little children, make sure no one ^(S)deceives you; ^(T)the one who practices righteousness is righteous, just as He is righteous; ⁸the one who practices sin is ^(U)of the devil; for the devil ^[c]has been sinning from the beginning. ^(V)The Son of God ^(W)appeared for this purpose, ^(X)to destroy the works of the devil. ⁹No one who has been ^(Y)born of God practices sin, because His seed remains in him; and he cannot sin continually, because he has been born of God. ¹⁰By this the ^(Z)children of God and the ^(AA)children of the devil are obvious: ^[d]anyone who does not practice righteousness is not of God, nor the one who ^(AB)does not love his ^(AC)brother and sister.

¹¹^(AD)For this is the message ^(AE)which you have heard from the beginning, ^(AF)that we are to love one another; ¹²not as ^(AG)Cain, who was of ^(AH)the evil one and murdered his brother. And for what reason did he murder him? Because ^(AI)his own deeds were evil, but his brother’s were righteous.

¹³Do not be surprised, brothers and sisters, if ^(AJ)the world hates you. ¹⁴We know that we have ^(AK)passed out of death into life, ^(AL)because we love the brothers and sisters. The one who does not love remains in death. ¹⁵Everyone who ^(AM)hates his brother or sister is a murderer, and you know that ^(AN)no murderer has eternal life remaining in him. ¹⁶We know love by this, that ^(AO)He laid down His life for us; and ^(AP)we ought to lay down our lives for the ^(AQ)brothers and sisters. ¹⁷But ^(AR)whoever has worldly goods and sees his brother or sister in need, and ^(AS)closes his ^[e]heart ^[f]against him, ^(AT)how does the love of God remain in him? ¹⁸^(AU)Little children, let’s not love with word or with tongue, but in deed and ^(AV)truth. ¹⁹We will know by this that we are ^(AW)of the truth, and will set our heart at ease before Him, ²⁰that if our heart condemns us, that God is greater than our heart, and He knows all things. ²¹^(AX)Beloved, if our heart does not condemn us, we have ^(AY)confidence ^[g]before God; ²²and ^(AZ)whatever we ask, we receive from Him, because we ^(BA)keep His commandments and do ^(BB)the things that are pleasing in His sight.

²³This is His commandment, that we ^[h]^(BC)believe in ^(BD)the name of His Son Jesus Christ, and love one another, just as ^(BE)He ^[i]commanded us. ²⁴The one who ^(BF)keeps His commandments ^(BG)remains in Him, and He in him. ^(BH)We know by this that ^(BI)He remains in us, by the Spirit whom He has given us.