CHAP. XXV.
A canticle of thanksgiving for
God's judgments and benefits.
1 O Lord, thou art my
God, I will exalt thee,
and give glory to thy name:
for thou hast done wonderful
things, thy designs of
old faithful, amen.
2 For thou hast reduced
the city to a heap, the strong
city to ruin, the house of
strangers: to be no city, and
to be no more built up for
ever.
3 Therefore shall a strong
people praise thee, the city
of mighty nations shall fear
thee.
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4 Because thou hast been
a strength to the poor, a
strength to the needy in his
distress: a refuge from the
whirlwind, a shadow from
the heat. For the blast of
the mighty is like a whirlwind
beating against a
wall.
5 Thou shalt bring down
the tumult of strangers, as
heat in thirst: and as with
heat under a burning cloud,
thou shalt make the branch
of the mighty to wither away.
6 And the Lord of hosts
shall make unto all people
in this mountain, a feast of
fat things, a feast of wine,
of fat things full of marrow,
of wine purified from the
lees.
7 And he shall destroy in
this mountain the face of
the bond, with which all
people were tied, and the
web that he began over all
nations.
8 He shall cast death
down headlong for ever:
and the Lord God shall wipe
away tears from every face,
and the reproach of his
people he shall take away
from off the whole earth:
for the Lord hath spoken
it.
9 And they shall say in
that day: Lo, this is our
God, we have waited for
him, and he will save us:
this is the Lord, we have
patiently waited for him,
we shall rejoice and be joyful
in his salvation.
10 For the hand of the
Lord shall rest in this mountain:
and note Moab shall
be troden down under him,
as straw is broken in pieces
with the wain.
11 And he shall stretch
forth his hands under him,
as he that swimmeth stretcheth
forth his hands to swim:
and he shall bring down his
glory with the dashing of
his hands.
12 And the bulwarks of
thy high walls shall fall, and
be brought low, and shall be
pulled down to the ground,
even to the dust.
Challoner [1752], THE NEW TESTAMENT OF Our LORD and SAVIOUR JESUS CHRIST. Translated out of the Latin Vulgat Diligently compared with the original Greek And first published by the English College of Rhemes, anno 1582. Newly revised, and corrected according to the Clementin Edition of the Scriptures. WITH ANNOTATIONS For clearing up modern Controversies in Religion, and other Difficulties of Holy Writ () [word count] [B12000].
