YAHWEH,1 you are my God;2 I will exalt you, I will praise your Name; for you have done wonderful things, even counsels of old, in faithfulness and truth. 2For you have made of a city a heap, of a fortified city a ruin, a palace of strangers to be no city; it shall never be built. 3Therefore shall a strong people glorify you; a city of awesome nations shall fear you. 4For you have been a stronghold to the poor, a stronghold to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shade from the heat, when the blast of the awesome ones is as a storm against the wall. 5As the heat in a dry place will you bring down the noise of strangers; as the heat by the shade of a cloud, the song of the awesome ones shall be brought low.
6In this mountain will YAHWEH All-Powerful make to all peoples a feast of choice meat, a feast of the best wine, with the finest cuts of meat, and the most well refined wine. 7He will destroy in this mountain the surface of the covering that covers all peoples, and the veil that is spread over all nations. 8He has swallowed up death forever;3 and the Lord YAHWEH will wipe away every tear from their faces;4 and the reproach of his people will he take away from off all the earth: for YAHWEH has spoken it.
9It shall be said in that day, “Behold, this is our God; we have waited for him, and he will save us: this is YAHWEH; we have waited for him, we will be glad and rejoice in his salvation.” 10For in this mountain will the hand of YAHWEH rest; and Moab shall be trodden down in his place, even as straw is trodden down in the water of the dung-hill. 11He shall spread forth his hands in the midst of it, as he who swims spreads forth his hands to swim; but YAHWEH will lay low his pride together with the craft of his hands. 12The high fortress of your walls has he brought down, laid low, and brought to the ground, even to the dust.
- 25:1 YAHWEH, the name God revealed to Prophet Musa in the Taurat, Exodus 3:15 – God said moreover to Musa, “You shall tell Bani-Israel this, ‘YAHWEH, the God of your fathers, the God of Ibrahim, the God of Ishaq, and the God of Yaqub, has sent me to you.’ This is my Name forever, and this is how I am to be remembered to all generations.” ↩︎
- 25:`1 God, English translation of elohim. Elohim (Hebrew) is related to allah (Arabic) and alaha (Syriac), all of which translate as “God,” and refer to the one true God. ↩︎
- 25:8 See the Injil, 1 Corinthians 15:54, which says, “But when this corruptible will have put on incorruption, and this mortal will have put on immortality, then what is written will happen: ‘Death is swallowed up in victory.'” ↩︎
- 25:8 Quoted in the Injil, Revelation 7:16-17, which says, “They will never be hungry, neither thirsty any more; neither will the sun beat on them, nor any heat; for the Lamb who is in the midst of the throne shepherds them, and leads them to springs of waters of life. And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes.” ↩︎