Isaiah 25:5

We were as faint-hearted men thirsting in Zion, by reason of ungodly men to whom thou didst deliver us.

Updated Brenton Septuagint

In The King James Version

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.

In Context

4For thou hast been a helper to every lowly city, and a shelter to them that were disheartened by reason of poverty: thou shalt deliver them from wicked men: thou hast been a shelter of them that thirst, and a refreshing air to injured men.

6And the Lord of hosts shall make a feast for all the nations: on this mount they shall drink gladness, they shall drink wine:

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Cross References

Job 8:16For it is moist under the sun, 1 And his branch shall come forth out of his dungheap. 1

Psalms 79:10Thou madest a way before it, 1 And didst cause its roots to strike, and the land was filled with it. 1

Isaiah 10:8And if they should say to him, Thou alone art ruler;

Isaiah 13:11And I will command evils for the whole world, and will visit their sins on the ungodly: and I will destroy the pride of transgressors, and will bring low the pride of the haughty.

Isaiah 14:19But thou shalt be cast forth on the mountains, as a loathed carcass, with many dead who have been pierced with swords, going down to the grave.

Isaiah 18:4For thus said the Lord to me, There shall be security in my city, as the light of noonday heat, and it shall be as a cloud of dew in the day of harvest.

Matthew Henry on Isaiah 25:2-6

A Song of Praise. ( b. c. 718.) 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. 2 For thou hast made of a city a heap; of a defenced city a ruin: a palace of strangers to be no city; it shall never be built. 3 Therefore shall the strong people glorify thee, the city of the terrible nations shall fear thee. 4 For thou hast been a strength to the poor, a strength to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the… Read the whole commentary →

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