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Chapter 25 |
| 1 | O Lord, thou
art my God; I will exalt thee, I will praise thy name; for thou hast done
wonderful things; thy counsels of old are faithfulness and truth. |
| 2 |
For thou hast made of a city an heap; of a defenced city a ruin: a palace of
strangers to be no city; it shall never be built. |
| 3 | Therefore
shall the strong people glorify thee, the city of the terrible nations shall
fear thee. |
| 4
| For thou hast been a strength to the poor, a strength to
the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shadow from the heat,
when the blast of the terrible ones is as a storm against the wall. |
| 5 |
Thou shalt bring down the noise of strangers, as the heat in a dry place; even
the heat with the shadow of a cloud: the branch of the terrible ones shall be
brought low. |
| 6
| And in this mountain shall the LORD of hosts make unto
all people a feast of fat things, a feast of wines on the lees, of fat things
full of marrow, of wines on the lees well refined. |
| 7 | And he will
destroy in this mountain the face of the covering cast over all people, and the
vail that is spread over all nations. |
| 8 | He will swallow up death in
victory; and the Lord GOD will wipe away tears from off all faces; and the
rebuke of his people shall he take away from off all the earth: for the LORD
hath spoken it. |
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9 | And it shall be said in that day, Lo, 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
in this mountain shall the hand of the LORD rest, and Moab shall be trodden
down under him, even as straw is trodden down for the dunghill. |
| 11 | And
he shall spread forth his hands in the midst of them, as he that swimmeth
spreadeth forth his hands to swim: and he shall bring down their pride together
with the spoils of their hands. |
| 12 | And the fortress of the high
fort of thy walls shall he bring down, lay low, and bring to the ground, even
to the dust. |
