Isaiah 25
New King James Version
Praise to God
25 O Lord, You are my God.
(A)I will exalt You,
I will praise Your name,
(B)For You have done wonderful things;
(C)Your counsels of old are faithfulness and truth.
2 For You have made (D)a city a ruin,
A fortified city a ruin,
A palace of foreigners to be a city no more;
It will never be rebuilt.
3 Therefore the strong people will (E)glorify You;
The city of the [a]terrible nations will fear You.
4 For You have been a strength to the poor,
A strength to the needy in his distress,
(F)A refuge from the storm,
A shade from the heat;
For the blast of the terrible ones is as a storm against the wall.
5 You will reduce the noise of aliens,
As heat in a dry place;
As heat in the shadow of a cloud,
The song of the terrible ones will be [b]diminished.
6 And in (G)this mountain
(H)The Lord of hosts will make for (I)all people
A feast of [c]choice pieces,
A feast of [d]wines on the lees,
Of fat things full of marrow,
Of well-refined wines on the lees.
7 And He will destroy on this mountain
The surface of the covering cast over all people,
And (J)the veil that is spread over all nations.
8 He will (K)swallow up death forever,
And the Lord God will (L)wipe away tears from all faces;
The rebuke of His people
He will take away from all the earth;
For the Lord has spoken.
9 And it will be said in that day:
“Behold, this is our God;
(M)We have waited for Him, and He will save us.
This is the Lord;
We have waited for Him;
(N)We will be glad and rejoice in His salvation.”
10 For on this mountain the hand of the Lord will rest,
And (O)Moab shall be trampled down under Him,
As straw is trampled down for the refuse heap.
11 And He will spread out His hands in their midst
As a swimmer reaches out to swim,
And He will bring down their (P)pride
Together with the trickery of their hands.
12 The (Q)fortress of the high fort of your walls
He will bring down, lay low,
And bring to the ground, down to the dust.
Footnotes
- Isaiah 25:3 terrifying
- Isaiah 25:5 humbled
- Isaiah 25:6 Lit. fat things
- Isaiah 25:6 wines matured on the sediment
以赛亚书 25
Chinese New Version (Traditional)
稱頌的詩歌
25 耶和華啊！你是我的 神，
我要尊崇你，稱謝你的名，
因為你以信實真誠作成了奇妙的事，
就是你遠古以前所計劃的事。
2 你使城市變成廢堆，
使堅固城變為荒涼的地方，
使外族人的城堡不再為城，
永遠不得重建。
3 因此，強大的民族必榮耀你；
強暴之國的城也要敬畏你。
4 你作了困乏人的保障、
貧窮人急難中的保障、
躲暴風雨的避難所、避炎熱的陰涼處；
因為強暴者所吹的氣，
如同直吹牆壁的暴風。
5 你抑制外族人的喧嘩，好像減低乾旱之地的炎熱；
你禁止強暴者的凱歌，好像熱氣因雲彩而消散。
聖山上擺設筵席
6 萬軍之耶和華必在這山上為萬民擺設豐盛美筵，有陳酒、滿髓的肥甘和醇美好酒。 7 他又必在這山上除滅那遮蓋萬民的面巾，和那遮蓋列國的帕子。 8 他要吞滅死亡，直到永遠；主耶和華必擦去各人臉上的眼淚，又從地上除掉他子民的羞辱；這是耶和華說的。
神施行拯救，懲罰敵人
9 到那日，必有人說：“看哪！這是我們的 神；我們信靠他，他必拯救我們。這是耶和華，我們所倚靠的，我們要因他的拯救歡喜快樂。 10 耶和華的手必放在這山上；但摩押人在自己的地方必受踐踏，好像乾草在糞坑中被踐踏一樣。 11 他們必在其中伸開手來，好像游泳者伸開手來游泳一樣；但耶和華要使他們的驕傲和他們手所行的詭計，一同敗落。 12 耶和華必使他們高聳而堅固的城牆傾倒下陷，落在地面，變作塵土。”
Isaiah 25
EasyEnglish Bible
A song to thank God
25 Lord, you are my God!
I will praise you
because your name is great.
You have done wonderful things.
You decided a long time ago what you would do.
And you have done exactly what you promised to do.
2 You have destroyed cities
so that they become a heap of stones.
You have destroyed the strongest cities.
The beautiful palaces in foreign lands have disappeared.
Nobody will build them again.
3 So people of strong nations will praise you.
The people of cruel nations will be afraid of you.
4 You Lord have been a safe place for poor people.
When helpless people were in trouble,
you have kept them safe.
You were a place for them to hide from the storm.
You gave them shade from the heat.
Yes, cruel people attack them
like a storm that hits against a wall.
5 and like strong heat in the desert.
You Lord stopped the proud noise of foreign people.
Like the shadow of a cloud that stops the heat of the sun,
you stopped our cruel enemy's songs.
You stopped them as they boasted of their strength.
6 The Lord Almighty will prepare a feast on this mountain.[a]
It will be a feast for all the nations of the world.
It will be a great feast, with plenty of meat and wine.
The best meat and the best wine will be there.
7 On this mountain the Lord will take away the things
that make all people sad.
He will remove the cloth
that covers the people of all nations.
8 The Almighty Lord will destroy death for ever.
He will clean away the tears in everyone's eyes.
His people will not feel ashamed any more.
Nobody in all the world will ever insult them again.
That is what the Lord has said.
9 At that time, people will say,
‘Look! This is our God!
We trusted him to keep us safe,
and he rescued us.
Yes, this is the Lord!
We trusted him to keep us safe.
We will sing with joy,
because he has saved us.’
10 The Lord's power will bless this mountain.
He will knock down Moab's people
and he will walk all over them.
He will walk on them,
as if they are straw in a heap of dung.
11 Moab's people will try to escape from that punishment.
They will push with their hands as they try to swim out!
But the Lord will make their proud strength useless,
whatever they do to escape.
12 He will knock down the high walls of Moab's city.
He will completely destroy their strong place.
It will all fall down into the dust on the ground.
Footnotes
- 25:6 ‘this mountain’ is Mount Zion in Jerusalem.
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