25:1 O LORD, you are my God!¹
I will exalt you in praise, I will extol your fame.²
For you have done extraordinary things,
and executed plans made long ago exactly as you decreed.³
25:2 Indeed⁴ you have made the city⁵ into a heap of rubble,
the fortified town into a heap of ruins;
the fortress of foreigners⁶ is no longer a city,
it will never be rebuilt.
25:3 So a strong nation will extol you,
the towns of⁷ powerful nations will fear you.
25:4 For you are a protector for the poor,
a protector for the needy in their distress,
a shelter from the rainstorm,
a shade from the heat.
Though the breath of tyrants⁸ is like a winter rainstorm,⁹
25:5 like heat¹⁰ in a dry land,
you humble the boasting foreigners.¹¹
Just as the shadow of a cloud causes the heat to subside,¹²
so he causes the song of tyrants to cease.¹³
25:6 The LORD who leads armies will hold a banquet for all the nations on this mountain.¹⁴
At this banquet there will be plenty of meat and aged wine,
tender meat and tasty wine.¹⁵
25:7 On this mountain he will swallow up
the shroud that is over all the peoples,¹⁶
the woven covering that is over all the nations;¹⁷
25:8 He will swallow up death permanently.¹⁸
The sovereign LORD will wipe away the tears from every face,
and remove his people’s disgrace from all the earth.
Indeed the LORD has announced it.¹⁹
25:9 At that time they will say,²⁰
“Look, here²¹ is our God!
We waited for him and he delivered us.
Here²² is the LORD! We waited for him.
Let’s be happy and celebrate his deliverance!”
25:10 For the LORD’s power will make this mountain secure;²³
Moab will be trampled down where it stands,²⁴
as a heap of straw is trampled down in²⁵ a manure pile.
25:11 Moab²⁶ will spread out its hands in the middle of it,²⁷
just as a swimmer spreads his hands to swim;
the LORD²⁸ will bring down Moab’s²⁹ pride as it spreads its hands.³⁰
25:12 The fortified city, along with the very tops of your³¹ walls,³² he will knock down,
he will bring it down, he will throw it down to the dusty ground.³³