1883 Haydock Douay Rheims Bible
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| Isaiah 25:1 | 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. | Amen. He approves of God's judgments (Haydock) against Jerusalem. (Worthington) |
| Isaiah 25:2 | 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. | City; Jerusalem, or rather Babylon, (chap. 21.) (Calmet) or every city (Haydock) in the world. (Menochius) --- Strangers: the temples of idols. |
| Isaiah 25:3 | Therefore shall a strong people praise thee; the city of mighty nations shall fear thee. | People; the Chaldeans, or their conquerors. |
| Isaiah 25:4 | 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. | Poor; Juda, whom Nabuchodonosor's fury could not exterminate. |
| Isaiah 25:5 | 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. | Away. Cyrus (Calmet) shall reduce Babylon the great. (Haydock) |
| Isaiah 25:6 | 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. | Mountain of Sion, a figure of the Church, and of heaven. The Jews shall feast: yea, some of all nations shall partake of the blessed Eucharist, and obtain heaven. The expressions are too grand for a corruptible feast. (Calmet) --- Wine. Literally, "of vintage," (Haydock) on which occasion great rejoicings were made. (Hesiod, Hercul. 297.) --- Protestants, "of wines on the lees." (Haydock) --- In the East, the wines were very thick, Psalm 75:9. (Calmet) --- On the rejection of the Jews, the Gentiles were converted. (Worthington) |
| Isaiah 25:7 | 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. | Tied. He will open their eyes to the truth of the gospel. They shall be no longer as criminals, expecting death, or mourning. |
| Isaiah 25:8 | 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. Apocalypse 7:17.; Apocalypse 21:4. | Ever. Hebrew, "he shall swallow up death in victory," 1 Corinthians 15:54. Christ, by dying, conquered death, and rescued us from its power, if we do not voluntarily subject ourselves to it again. This was faintly represented by the liberation of the captives. |
| Isaiah 25:9 | 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. | |
| Isaiah 25:10 | For the hand of the Lord shall rest in this mountain: and Moab shall be trodden down under him, as straw is broken in pieces with the wain. | Mountain: the Church. (Calmet) --- Moab. That is, the reprobate, whose eternal punishment, from which they can no way escape, is described under these figures. (Challoner) --- The Machabees probably executed this vengeance on Moab, 1 Machabees 5:6. |
| Isaiah 25:11 | 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. | Hands. All his exertions and fury will prove useless. (Haydock) --- Moab shall lie prostrate. |
| Isaiah 25:12 | 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. |