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Targum Isaiah 25
The Targum's rendering of Isaiah 25 opens with covenant praise to Jehovah for executing counsels decreed from of old — the idolatrous house of the nations in Jerusalem made a permanent ruin, the strong and the terrible brought to reverence. Jehovah is named as a sheltering strength to the poor and needy, while the tumult of the wicked is leveled as scorching heat is broken by shade. The feast on the mountain turns to disgrace for the proud. Death is swallowed; the WORD of the Lord wipes tears and removes reproach. Moab's judgment closes the chapter as the power of the Lord of hosts is revealed on the mountain.
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O Lord, thou art my God: I will exalt thee; I will praise thy name; for thou hast done wonderful things; surely thou hast brought to pass and hast established the counsels which thou hadst promised of old to bring to pass.
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For thou hast made the unfortified cities heaps; the fortified city is a ruin; the idolatrous house of the nations in the city of Jerusalem, shall never be built up again.
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Therefore shall the strong people glorify thee, the city of terrible nations shall fear thee.
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For thou hast been a strength to the poor, a help to the needy in the time of distress; as those who are protected from before a storm, or who are protected as in a shade from the scorching heat; thus the words of the wicked against the righteous are as a storm that beats against the wall.
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As the scorching heat in a dry land thou shalt bring low the tumult of the mighty: as the shade of a cooling rock in a parched land, thus peace of mind shall be to the righteous, when the wicked shall be humbled.
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And in this mountain shall make a feast and a banquet; they think that it shall be for their glory; but it shall be to them for disgrace and for mighty afflictions, from which they shall not deliver themselves, afflictions through which they shall come to an end.
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The face of the prince, of the prince of all the people shall be destroyed; and the face of the king, of the ruler of all the kingdoms.
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Death shall be forgotten for ever; and the Lord God shall wipe away tears from off all the faces, and the reproach of his people he shall remove from off all the earth, because it hath been decreed thus by the WORD of the Lord.
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And one shall say at that time: Behold, this is our God; this is he for whom we have hoped, and he shall “save us: this is the Lord, for His WORD we have hoped; we will rejoice, and be glad in his salvation.
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For the power of the Lord of hosts shall be revealed in this mountain; and the Moabites shall be trodden under foot even as straw is in the clay.
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And he shall extend the stroke of his power among them, as the swimmer extends himself to swim; and he shall humble his glory, together with the wiles of his hands.
12
He shall cast down the fortified city, the great city; he shall thrust it down, it shall come to the earth, even to the dust.
