Isaiah 25:1-5

God Will Swallow Up Death Forever

¹ O Lord, _j you are my God;
_k I will exalt you; I will praise your name,
for you have done wonderful things,
_l plans formed of old, faithful and sure.
² For you have made the city _m a heap,
the fortified city a ruin;
the foreigners' palace is a city no more;
it will never be rebuilt.
³ _n Therefore strong peoples will glorify you;
cities of ruthless nations will fear you.
⁴ _o For you have been a stronghold to the poor,
a stronghold to the needy in his distress,
_p a shelter from the storm and a shade from the heat;
_q for the breath of the ruthless is like a storm against a wall,
⁵ _r 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.

1. Cross References
   Exodus 15:2
   The Lord is my strength and my song, and he has become my salvation; this is my God, and I will praise him, my father's God, and I will exalt him.
   
2. Cross References
   Psalms 107:32
   Let them extol him in the congregation of the people, and praise him in the assembly of the elders.
   
3. Cross References
   2 Kings 19:25
   Have you not heard that I determined it long ago? I planned from days of old what now I bring to pass, that you should turn fortified cities into heaps of ruins.
   
4. Cross References
   Isaiah 17:1
   An oracle concerning Damascus. Behold, Damascus will cease to be a city and will become a heap of ruins.
   Jeremiah 51:37
   And Babylon shall become a heap of ruins, the haunt of jackals, a horror and a hissing, without inhabitant.
   
5. Cross References
   Isaiah 18:7
   At that time tribute will be brought to the Lord of hosts from a people tall and smooth, from a people feared near and far, a nation mighty and conquering, whose land the rivers divide, to Mount Zion, the place of the name of the Lord of hosts.
   
6. Cross References
   Nahum 1:7
   The Lord is good, a stronghold in the day of trouble; he knows those who take refuge in him.
   
7. Cross References
   Isaiah 4:6
   There will be a booth for shade by day from the heat, and for a refuge and a shelter from the storm and rain.
   
8. Cross References
   2 Chronicles 32:18
   And they shouted it with a loud voice in the language of Judah to the people of Jerusalem who were on the wall, to frighten and terrify them, in order that they might take the city.
   
9. Cross References
   Isaiah 32:2
   Each will be like a hiding place from the wind, a shelter from the storm, like streams of water in a dry place, like the shade of a great rock in a weary land.