ISAIAH 25-26
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.
25:2 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.
25:3 Therefore shall the strong people glorify thee, the city of the terrible 
nations shall fear thee.
25:4 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.
25:5 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.
25:6 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.
25:7 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.
25:8 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.
25:9 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.
25:10 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.
25:11 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.
25:12 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.
26:1 In that day shall this song be sung in the land of Judah; We have a strong 
city; salvation will God appoint for walls and bulwarks.
26:2 Open ye the gates, that the righteous nation which keepeth the truth may 
enter in.
26:3 Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee: because 
he trusteth in thee.
26:4 Trust ye in the LORD for ever: for in the LORD JEHOVAH is everlasting 
strength:
26:5 For he bringeth down them that dwell on high; the lofty city, he layeth it 
low; he layeth it low, even to the ground; he bringeth it even to the dust.
26:6 The foot shall tread it down, even the feet of the poor, and the steps of 
the needy.
26:7 The way of the just is uprightness: thou, most upright, dost weigh the 
path of the just.
26:8 Yea, in the way of thy judgments, O LORD, have we waited for thee; the 
desire of our soul is to thy name, and to the remembrance of thee.
26:9 With my soul have I desired thee in the night; yea, with my spirit within 
me will I seek thee early: for when thy judgments are in the earth, the 
inhabitants of the world will learn righteousness.
26:10 Let favour be shewed to the wicked, yet will he not learn righteousness: 
in the land of uprightness will he deal unjustly, and will not behold the 
majesty of the LORD.
26:11 LORD, when thy hand is lifted up, they will not see: but they shall see, 
and be ashamed for their envy at the people; yea, the fire of thine enemies 
shall devour them.
26:12 LORD, thou wilt ordain peace for us: for thou also hast wrought all our 
works in us.
26:13 O LORD our God, other lords beside thee have had dominion over us: but by 
thee only will we make mention of thy name.
26:14 They are dead, they shall not live; they are deceased, they shall not 
rise: therefore hast thou visited and destroyed them, and made all their memory 
to perish.
26:15 Thou hast increased the nation, O LORD, thou hast increased the nation: 
thou art glorified: thou hadst removed it far unto all the ends of the earth.
26:16 LORD, in trouble have they visited thee, they poured out a prayer when 
thy chastening was upon them.
26:17 Like as a woman with child, that draweth near the time of her delivery, 
is in pain, and crieth out in her pangs; so have we been in thy sight, O LORD.
26:18 We have been with child, we have been in pain, we have as it were brought 
forth wind; we have not wrought any deliverance in the earth; neither have the 
inhabitants of the world fallen.
26:19 Thy dead men shall live, together with my dead body shall they arise. 
Awake and sing, ye that dwell in dust: for thy dew is as the dew of herbs, and 
the earth shall cast out the dead.
26:20 Come, my people, enter thou into thy chambers, and shut thy doors about 
thee: hide thyself as it were for a little moment, until the indignation be 
overpast.
26:21 For, behold, the LORD cometh out of his place to punish the inhabitants 
of the earth for their iniquity: the earth also shall disclose her blood, and 
shall no more cover her slain.