Isaiah 25:1-5 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

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A Song of Praise for Yahweh's Great Deliverance. The deliverance still lies in the future; the song is written from the standpoint of the redeemed community, and expresses its exultation over its salvation. Yahweh has overthrown the city, its inhabitants shall stand in awe of Him. He has been a shelter to His distressed people when the blast of the violent has beaten on them like a winter storm. He has assuaged the oppression of the enemy, as the sun's scorching heat in a parched land is ameliorated by clouds.

Isaiah 25:1. counsels of old: God's decrees formed in the far-distant past.

Isaiah 25:2. a city: the identification is uncertain; perhaps it is that of Isaiah 24:10. palace: fortress (Amos 1:4 *). strangers: i.e. to God, but read insolent, and similarly in Isaiah 25:5.

Isaiah 25:4. storm against the wall: read storm in winter.

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Isaiah 25:1-5

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 an 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 storm, a shadow from the heat, when the blast of the terrible ones is as a storm against the wall.

5 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.