Revised Literal Translation
Isaiah 25:3
3Therefore shall the strong people glorify thee, the city of the terrible nations shall fear thee.
Isaiah 25:3 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Therefore shall the strong people glorify thee, the city of the terrible nations shall fear thee.
- New International Version (NIV)Therefore strong peoples will honor you; cities of ruthless nations will revere you.
- English Standard Version (ESV)Therefore strong peoples will glorify you; cities of ruthless nations will fear you.
- New King James Version (NKJV)Therefore the strong people will glorify You; The city of the terrible nations will fear You.
Context of Isaiah 25:3
1O Yhwh, 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. 2For 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. Therefore shall the strong people glorify thee, the city of the terrible nations shall fear thee. 4For 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. 5Thou 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.
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עַל־כֵּ֖ן יְכַבְּד֣וּךָ עַם־עָ֑ז קִרְיַ֛ת גּוֹיִ֥ם עָרִיצִ֖ים יִירָאֽוּךָ׃Read the interlinear
Cross-references for Isaiah 25:3
- Isaiah 49:23And kings shall be thy nursing fathers, and their queens thy nursing mothers: they shall bow down to thee with their face toward the earth, and lick up the dust of thy feet; and thou shalt know that I am Yhwh: for they shall not be ashamed that wait for me.
- Isaiah 60:10And the sons of strangers shall build up thy walls, and their kings shall minister unto thee: for in my wrath I smote thee, but in my favour have I had mercy on thee.
- Isaiah 66:18For I know their works and their thoughts: it shall come, that I will gather all nations and tongues; and they shall come, and see my glory.
- Psalms 46:10Be still, and know that I am God: I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth.
- Psalms 66:3Say unto God, How terrible art thou in thy works! through the greatness of thy power shall thine enemies submit themselves unto thee.
- Psalms 72:8He shall have dominion also from sea to sea, and from the river unto the ends of the earth.
- Ezekiel 38:23Thus will I magnify myself, and sanctify myself; and I will be known in the eyes of many nations, and they shall know that I am Yhwh.
- Ezekiel 39:21And I will set my glory among the heathen, and all the heathen shall see my judgment that I have executed, and my hand that I have laid upon them.
- Zechariah 14:9And Yhwh shall be king over all the earth: in that day shall there be one Yhwh, and his name one.
- Revelation 11:13And the same hour was there a great earthquake, and the tenth part of the city fell, and in the earthquake were slain of men seven thousand: and the remnant were affrighted, and gave glory to the God of heaven.
Commentaries on Isaiah 25:3
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 3The strong people - The reference here is not probably to the Babylonians, but to the surrounding nations. The deliverance of the Jews, and the destruction of Babylon, would be such striking events that they would lead the surrounding nations to acknowledge that it was the hand of God. The city of the terrible nations - The word city‘ here is taken probably in a collective sense, to denote the cities or the strong places of the surrounding nations which…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 3Assyria and Egypt were strong and ruthless nations, but in the future, they will honor God instead of their own power.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 33. strong people--This cannot apply to the Jews; but other nations on which Babylon had exercised its cruelty (Is 14:12) shall worship Jehovah, awed by the judgment inflicted on Babylon (Is 23:18). city--not Babylon, which shall then be destroyed, but collectively for the cities of the surrounding nations.Read the comment
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Commentaries on Isaiah 25
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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