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Isaiah 25

A thanksgiving to God in that that he sheweth him self judge of the world, by punishing the wicked and maintaining the godlie.
1.O Lord, thou aart my God: I will exalt thee, I will praise thy Name: for thou hast done wonderful things, according to the counsels of old, with a stable truth.
2.For thou hast made of a bcity an heap, of a strong city, a ruin: even the palace cof strangers of a city, it shall never be built.
3.Therefore shall the dmighty people give glory unto thee: the city of the strong nations shall fear thee.
4.For thou hast been a strength unto the poor, even a strength to the needy in his trouble, a refuge against the tempest, a shadow against the heat: for the blast eof the mighty is like a storm against the wall.
5.Thou shalt bring down the noise of the strangers, fas the heat in a dry place: he will bring down the song of the mighty, as gthe heat in the shadow of a cloud.
6.And in this hmountain shall the Lord of hostes make unto all people a feast of fat things, even a feast of fined wines, and of fat things full of marrow, of wines fined and purified.
7.And he will destroy in this mountain ithe covering that covereth all people, and the vail that is spread upon all nations.
8.He will destroy death for ever: and the Lord God will kwipe away the tears from all faces, and the rebuke of his people will he take away out of all the earth: for the Lord hath spoken it.
9.And in that day shall man say, 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 rejoice and be joyful in his salvation.
10.For in this mountain shall the hand of the Lord rest, and lMoáb shalbe threshed under him, even as straw is threshed in mMadmenáh.
11.And he shall stretch out his hand in the middes of them (as he that swimmeth, stretcheth them out to swim) and with the strength of his hands shall he bring down their pride.
12.The defence also of the height of thy walls shall he bring down and lay low, & cast them to the ground, even unto the dust.

Notes

1-T.
hus the Prophet gives thanks to God, because he will bring under subjection these nations by his corrections, and make them of his Church, which before were his enemies.
2-b.
Not only of Jerusalem, but also of these other cities, which have been your enemies.
2-c.
That is, a place where foul vagabonds may live without danger, and as it were at ease as in a palace.
3-d.
The arrogant and proud which before would not know you, shall by your correction fear and glorify you.
4-e.
The rage of the wicked is furious, till God break the force thereof.
5-f.
Meaning, that as the heat is abated by the rain, so shall God bring down the rage of the wicked.
5-g.
As a cloud shadow them from the heat of the sun, so shall God aswage the rejoicing of the wicked against the godly.
6-h.
To wit, in Zion, whereby he means his Church, which should under Christ be assembled of the Jews and the Gentiles, and is here described under the figure of a costly banquet as Mt. 22.2.
7-i.
Meaning that ignorance and blindness, whereby we are kept back from Christ.
8-k.
He will take away all occasions of sorrow and fill his with perfect joy, Rev. 7.17 and 21.4.
10-l.
By Moab are meant all the enemies of his Church.
10-m.
There were two cities of this name one in Judah, 1 Chron. 2.49, and another in the land of Moab, Jer. 48.2 which seems to have been a plentiful place of corn, Ch. 10.31.