23:025:001 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.
23:025:002 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.
23:025:003 Therefore shall the strong people glorify
thee, the city of
the
terrible nations shall fear thee.
23:025:004 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.
23:025:005 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.
23:025:006 And in this mountain shall the lord
of hosts make unto all
people
a feast of fat things, a feast of wines on the lees,
of
fat
things full of marrow, of wines on the lees well refined.
23:025:007 And he will destroy in this mountain the
face of the covering
cast
over all people, and the vail that is spread over all
nations.
23:025:008 He will swallow up death in victory; and
the Lord god will
wipe
away tears from off all faces; and the rebuke of his
people
shall he take away from off all the earth: for
the lord
hath
spoken it.
23:025:009 And it shall be said in that day, Lo, this
is our God; we have
waited
for him, and he will save us: this is the lord;
we have
waited
for him, we will be glad and rejoice in his salvation.
23:025:010 For in this mountain shall the hand of
the lord rest, and Moab
shall
be trodden down under him, even as straw is trodden
down
for
the dunghill.
23:025:011 And he shall spread forth his hands in
the midst of them, as
he
that swimmeth spreadeth forth his hands to swim:
and he
shall
bring down their pride together with the spoils of
their
hands.
23:025:012 And the fortress of the high fort of thy
walls shall he bring
down,
lay low, and bring to the ground, even to the dust.
23:026:001 In that day shall this song be sung in
the land of Judah; We
have
a strong city; salvation will God appoint for walls
and
bulwarks.
23:026:002 Open ye the gates, that the righteous nation
which keepeth the
truth
may enter in.
23:026:003 Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose
mind is stayed on
thee:
because he trusteth in thee.


