| Chapter 25 |
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Yahweh, you are my God; I will exalt you, I will praise your name; for you have done wonderful things, even counsels of old, in faithfulness and truth. |
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For 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. |
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Therefore shall a strong people glorify you; a city of awesome nations shall fear you. |
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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 awesome ones is as a storm against the wall. |
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As 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. |
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In this mountain will Yahweh of Hosts make to all peoples 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. |
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He will destroy in this mountain the surface of the covering that covers all peoples, and the veil that is spread over all nations. |
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He has swallowed up death forever; and the Lord Yahweh will wipe away tears from off all faces; and the reproach of his people will he take away from off all the earth: for Yahweh has spoken it. |
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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. |
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For 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. |
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He 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. |
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The high fortress of your walls has he brought down, laid low, and brought to the ground, even to the dust. |
