Chapter 25
1 Yahweh , you are my God . I will exalt you ! I will praise your name , for you have done wonderful things , things planned long ago , in complete faithfulness and truth.
2 For you have made a city into a heap , a fortified city into a ruin , a palace of strangers to be no city . It will never be built .
3 Therefore a strong people will glorify you . A city of awesome nations will fear you .
4 For 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 dreaded ones is like a storm against the wall .
5 As the heat in a dry place you will bring down the noise of strangers ; as the heat by the shade of a cloud , the song of the dreaded ones will be brought low .
6 In this mountain , Yahweh of Armies will make all peoples a feast of choice meat, a feast of choice wines, of choice meat full of marrow , of well refined choice wines.
7 He will destroy in this mountain the surface of the covering that covers all peoples , and the veil that is spread over all nations .
8 He has swallowed up death forever ! The Lord Yahweh will wipe away tears from off all faces . He will take the reproach of his people away from off all the earth, for Yahweh has spoken it .
9 It 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 !"
10 For Yahweh ’s hand will rest in this mountain . Moab will be trodden down in his place , even like straw is trodden down in the water of the dunghill .
11 He will spread out his hands in the middle of it , like one who swims spreads out hands to swim , but his pride will be humbled together with the craft of his hands .
12 He has brought the high fortress of your walls down , laid low , and brought to the ground , even to the dust .