Isaiah 25:5
3 Therefore, a strong people will honor You. The cities of ruthless nations will revere You.
4 For You have been a refuge for the poor, a stronghold for the needy in distress, a refuge from the storm, a shade from the heat. For the breath of the ruthless is like rain against a wall,
like heat in a dry land. You subdue the uproar of foreigners. As the shade of a cloud cools the heat, so the song of the ruthless is silenced.
6 On this mountain the LORD of Hosts will prepare a banquet for all the peoples, a feast of aged wine, of choice meat, of finely aged wine.
7 On this mountain He will swallow up the shroud that enfolds all peoples, the sheet that covers all nations;
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
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- BSB
- like heat in a dry land. You subdue the uproar of foreigners. As the shade of a cloud cools the heat, so the song of the ruthless is silenced.
- KJV
- 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.
- WEB
- As the heat in a dry place you will bring down the noise of strangers; as the heat by the shade of a cloud, the song of the dreaded ones will be brought low.
- ASV
- As the heat in a dry place wilt thou bring down the noise of strangers; as the heat by the shade of a cloud, the song of the terrible ones shall be brought low.
- DARBY
- Thou hast subdued the tumult of strangers, as the heat in a dry place; [as] the heat, by the shadow of a cloud, [so] the song of the terrible ones is brought low.
- BLB
- like heat in a dry land, the roar of strangers You humble—the heat in the shadow of a cloud, the song of the ruthless ones will be brought low.
- ÅB
- Som du demper hete i tørt land, så demper du de fremmedes bulder; som hete ved skyggen av en sky, så dempes voldsmenns sang.
- OTB
- Som varme i et tørt land, demper du fremmedes larm; som varme reduseres av skyggene fra en sky, slik blir de nådeløses sang brakt til taushet.
- B1930
- Som du demper hete i tørt land, så demper du de fremmedes bulder; som hete ved skyggen av en sky, så dempes voldsmenns sang.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Isaiah 54:15–17
If anyone attacks you, it is not from Me; whoever assails you will fall before you.
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They will not hunger or thirst, nor will scorching heat or sun beat down on them. For He who has compassion on them will guide them and lead them beside springs of water.
Read in contextIsaiah 10:32–34
Yet today they will halt at Nob, shaking a fist at the mount of Daughter Zion, at the hill of Jerusalem.
Read in contextEzekiel 32:18–32
“Son of man, wail for the multitudes of Egypt, and consign her and the daughters of the mighty nations to the depths of the earth with those who descend to the Pit:
Read in contextIsaiah 13:11
I will punish the world for its evil and the wicked for their iniquity. I will end the haughtiness of the arrogant and lay low the pride of the ruthless.
Read in contextIsaiah 18:4
For this is what the LORD has told me: “I will quietly look on from My dwelling place, like shimmering heat in the sunshine, like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.”
Read in contextIsaiah 30:30–33
And the LORD will cause His majestic voice to be heard and His mighty arm to be revealed, striking in angry wrath with a flame of consuming fire, and with cloudburst, storm, and hailstones.
Read in contextJob 8:16–19
He is a well-watered plant in the sunshine, spreading its shoots over the garden.
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