이사야 Chapter 25

Translation: ESV

1

O LORD, you are my God; I will exalt you; I will praise your name, for you have done wonderful things, plans formed of old, faithful and sure.

Key Message

God is faithful, one who surely fulfills what he has planned—this is the basis of praise.

▸After the oracles of judgment in chapter 24, a song of praise begins.

After the oracles of judgment in chapter 24, a song of praise begins. 'O LORD, you are my God'—it opens with a personal confession of faith. God is the one who faithfully fulfills what he planned long ago.

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Yet you are holy, enthroned on the praises of Israel.
2

For you have made the city a heap, the fortified city a ruin; the foreigners' palace is a city no more; it will never be rebuilt.

Key Message

No matter how strong a human fortress, it falls before God's judgment—and this becomes the content of praise.

▸God is praised for making fortified cities into heaps.

3

Therefore strong peoples will glorify you; cities of ruthless nations will fear you.

Key Message

The ultimate purpose of God's judgment is that all peoples come to fear God.

▸As the result of judgment, even strong peoples and ruthless nations will fear and worship God.

4

For you have been a stronghold to the poor, a stronghold to the needy in his distress, a shelter from the storm and a shade from the heat; for the breath of the ruthless is like a storm against a wall,

Key Message

God is the stronghold and refuge of the weak—this is his character.

▸God is the refuge of the powerless.

5

like heat in a dry place. You subdue the noise of the foreigners; as heat by the shade of a cloud, so the song of the ruthless is put down.

Key Message

God subdues the clamor of arrogant powers and humbles the proud.

▸The clamor of strong foreigners and the song of the ruthless (arrogant songs of triumph) are subdued like cloud shade.

6

On this mountain the LORD of hosts will make for all peoples a feast of rich food, a feast of well-aged wine, of rich food full of marrow, of aged wine well refined.

Key Message

After judgment God holds a banquet for all peoples, symbolizing the abundance of salvation.

▸This is the vision of a banquet that God will hold for all peoples on Mount Zion.

7

And he will swallow up on this mountain the covering that is cast over all peoples, the veil that is spread over all nations.

Key Message

God removes the veil that keeps the nations from seeing the truth, making it possible for all peoples to know God.

▸The covering over all peoples—the shroud of grief, the shadow of death, the veil of ignorance—is destroyed.

8

He will swallow up death forever; and the Lord GOD will wipe away tears from all faces, and the reproach of his people he will take away from all the earth, for the LORD has spoken.

Key Message

God swallows up death forever and wipes away all tears—this is the ultimate goal of salvation.

▸This is the most famous verse in Isaiah 25.

9

It will be said on that day, 'Behold, this is our God; we have waited for him, that he might save us. This is the LORD; we have waited for him; let us be glad and rejoice in his salvation.'

Key Message

Those who patiently wait for God ultimately experience salvation and rejoice.

▸This is the moving confession of those who are saved.

10

For the hand of the LORD will rest on this mountain, and Moab shall be trampled down in his place, as straw is trampled down in a dunghill.

Key Message

God judges the enemies of his people for their sake.

▸After the vision of salvation, judgment against Moab is proclaimed.

11

And he will spread out his hands in the midst of it as a swimmer spreads his hands out to swim, but the LORD will lay low his pompous pride together with the skill of his hands.

Key Message

Pride is ultimately broken by God's judgment, and no effort can save the arrogant.

▸Moab stretches out its hands to survive, like one swimming, but the LORD cuts off Moab's hands along with its pride.

12

And the high fortifications of his walls he will bring down, lay low, and cast to the ground, to the dust.

Key Message

Before God, all defensive structures that humans have built become dust; only God is the true fortress.

▸Moab's fortified walls are brought down flat to the ground.