Isaiah 25:5

As heat in a desert, the pomp of foreigners, wilt thou subdue,—Heat—with the shade of a cloud, The song of tyrants! become low.

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

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 didst become A refuge to the weak. A refuge to the needy, when distress was upon him,—A shelter from the storm. A shade from the heat, When the blast of tyrants was like a storm against a wall.

6Then will Yahweh of hosts prepare for all the peoples in this mountain, A banquet of fat things, A banquet of old wines,—Of fat things full of marrow, Of old wines well refined;

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Cross References

Job 8:16Full of moisture he is, before the sun, and, over his garden, his shoot goeth forth:

Psalms 79:10Wherefore should the nations say—Where is their God? Let him be known among the nations before our eyes! [Yea! By] the avenging of the blood of thy servants which hath been shed!

Isaiah 10:8For he saith:—Are not, my generals, all alike, kings?

Isaiah 13:11And I will visit, upon the inhabited earth, calamity!, And upon the lawless, their punishment, And will quiet the arrogance of the proud, And the loftiness of tyrants, will I lay low.

Isaiah 14:19But, thou, art flung out from thy grave, Like a scion detested, Beshrouded with slain, the pierced of the sword, Like a carcase trod underfoot:

Isaiah 18:4For, thus, said Yahweh unto me,—I must be quiet I must look on in my fixed place of abode,—Like a bright heat on the light, Like a cloud of dew in the heat 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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