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Lutheran reading notes

In Isaiah chapter 25, the prophetic message continues to reveal themes of judgment, repentance, messianic hope, and restoration. Lutheran interpretation often emphasizes the contrast between divine law, which exposes sin, and the promise of grace through God's future redemption. The chapter illustrates both warning and hope within God's covenant relationship.

Theme: Prophetic call to repentance and hope Key people: Prophets; Israel/Judah Key place: Jerusalem; nations Liturgical use: Prophetic lections
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.
Isaiah 25:1 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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.
Isaiah 25:2 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
3 Therefore shall the strong people glorify thee, the city of the terrible nations shall fear thee.
Isaiah 25:3 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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.
Isaiah 25:4 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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.
Isaiah 25:5 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
6 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.
Isaiah 25:6 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
7 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. {destroy: Heb. swallow up} {cast: Heb. covered}
Isaiah 25:7 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
8 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}.
Isaiah 25:8 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
9 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.
Isaiah 25:9 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
10 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. {trodden down under: or, threshed, etc} {trodden down for...: or, threshed in Madmenah}
Isaiah 25:10 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
11 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.
Isaiah 25:11 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
12 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.
Isaiah 25:12 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.