Isaiah 25:1-5

A song to thank God

1 Lord, you are my God!

I will praise you

because your name is great.

You have done wonderful things.

You decided a long time ago what you would do.

And you have done exactly what you promised to do.

2 You have destroyed cities

so that they become a heap of stones.

You have destroyed the strongest cities.

The beautiful palaces in foreign lands have disappeared.

Nobody will build them again.

3 So people of strong nations will praise you.

The people of cruel nations will be afraid of you.

4 Lord, you have been a safe place for poor people.

When helpless people were in trouble,

you have kept them safe.

You were a place for them to hide from the storm.

You gave them shade from the heat.

Yes, cruel people attack them

like a storm that hits against a wall.

5 and like strong heat in the desert.

You stopped the proud noise of foreign people.

Like the shadow of a cloud that stops the heat of the sun,

you stopped our cruel enemy's songs.

You stopped them as they boasted of their strength.