Isaiah 25 is the twenty-fifth chapter of the Book of Isaiah in the Hebrew Bible or the Old Testament of the Christian Bible. This book contains the prophecies attributed to the prophet Isaiah, and is one of the Books of the Prophets. Chapters 24-27 of Isaiah constitute one continuous poetical prophecy, sometimes called the "Isaiah Apocalypse".
The original text was written in Hebrew language. This chapter is divided into 12 verses.
Some early manuscripts containing the text of this chapter in Hebrew are of the Masoretic Text tradition, which includes the Codex Cairensis (895), the Petersburg Codex of the Prophets (916), Aleppo Codex (10th century), Codex Leningradensis (1008).
Fragments containing parts of this chapter were found among the Dead Sea Scrolls (3rd century BC or later):
There is also a translation into Koine Greek known as the Septuagint, made in the last few centuries BCE. Extant ancient manuscripts of the Septuagint version include Codex Vaticanus (B;
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The parashah sections listed here are based on the Aleppo Codex.[1] Isaiah 25 is a part of the Prophecies about Judah and Israel (Isaiah 24–35). : open parashah; : closed parashah.
25:1-5 25:6-8 25:9-12
The city will never be rebuiltThe Geneva Bible and King James Version have the text as "it shall never be built".[2]
American theologian Albert Barnes writes:
"I suppose the whole scope of the passage requires us to understand this of Babylon. There has been, however, a great variety of interpretation of this passage. Grotius supposed that Samaria was intended. Calvin that the word is used collectively, and that various cities are intended. Piscator that Rome, the seat of antichrist, was intended. Jerome says that the Jews generally understand it of Rome. Aben Ezra and Kimchi, however, understand it to refer to many cities which they say will be destroyed in the times of Gog and Magog.
The city of the terrible nations
A shade from the heatThis idea is a little enlarged in 2 Isaiah:
A man will be as a hiding place from the wind,
And a cover from the tempest
As rivers of water in a dry place,
As the shadow of a great rock in a weary landand Psalm 121:5-6
The Lord is your keeper;
The Lord is your shade at your right hand.
The sun shall not strike you by day,
Nor the moon by night. https://biblehub.com/bsb/psalms/121.htm
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.[3]
Good News Translation