# Isaiah 25 (New King James Version)
Praise to God

##### Chapter 25
###### 1 O Lord, You _are_ my God.  
I will exalt You,  
I will praise Your name,  
For You have done wonderful _things;_  
_Your_ counsels of old _are_ faithfulness _and_ truth.  

###### 2 For You have made 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 glorify You;  
The city of the terrible nations will fear You.  

###### 4 For You have been a strength to the poor,  
A strength to the needy in his distress,  
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 diminished.

###### 6 And in this mountain  
The Lord of hosts will make for all people  
A feast of choice pieces,  
A feast of 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 the veil that is spread over all nations.  

###### 8 He will swallow up death forever,  
And the Lord God will 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;  
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."

###### 10 For on this mountain the hand of the Lord will rest,  
And 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 pride  
Together with the trickery of their hands.  

###### 12 The fortress of the high fort of your walls  
He will bring down, lay low,  
_And_ bring to the ground, down to the dust.