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Thanksgiving

Isaiah 25:1-9

Isaiah 25:1–9 NKJV

O Lord, You are my God. I will exalt You, I will praise Your name, For You have done wonderful things; Your counsels of old are faithfulness and truth. For You have made a city a ruin, A fortified city a ruin, A palace of foreigners to be a city no more; It will never be rebuilt. Therefore the strong people will glorify You; The city of the terrible nations will fear You. For You have been a strength to the poor, A strength to the needy in his distress, A refuge from the storm, A shade from the heat; For the blast of the terrible ones is as a storm against the wall. You will reduce the noise of aliens, As heat in a dry place; As heat in the shadow of a cloud, The song of the terrible ones will be diminished. And in this mountain The Lord of hosts will make for all people A feast of choice pieces, A feast of wines on the lees, Of fat things full of marrow, Of well-refined wines on the lees. And He will destroy on this mountain The surface of the covering cast over all people, And the veil that is spread over all nations. He will swallow up death forever, And the Lord God will wipe away tears from all faces; The rebuke of His people He will take away from all the earth; For the Lord has spoken. And it will be said in that day: “Behold, this is our God; We have waited for Him, and He will save us. This is the Lord; We have waited for Him; We will be glad and rejoice in His salvation.”

6. in this mountain—Jerusalem: Messiah’s kingdom was to begin, and is to have its central seat hereafter, at Jerusalem, as the common country of “all nations” (Is 2:2, &c.).

all people—(Is 56:7; Da 7:14; Lu 2:10).

feast—image of festive joy and happiness, (Ps 22:26, 27; Mt 8:11; Ps 22:26, 27, Lu 14, 15; Rev 19:9; compare Ps 36:8; 87:1–7).

fat things—Something pleasing and appealing, especially fine food served with elegance; the rich mercies of God in Christ (Is 55:2; Je 31:14; Job 36:16).

wines on the lees—wine which has been long kept the oldest and most generous wine where sediment has accumulated with age. (Je 48:11).

marrow—the choicest dainties (Ps 63:5).

well refined—cleared of all sediment, filtered like that of mountain spring water.

7. face of … covering—image from mourning, in which it was usual to cover the face with a veil (2 Sa 15:30). “Face of covering,” that is, the covering itself; as in Job 41:13, “the face of his garment,” the garment itself. The covering or veil is the mist of ignorance as to a future state, and the way to eternal life, which enveloped the nations (Eph 4:18) and the unbelieving Jew (2 Co 3:15). The Jew, however, is first to be converted before the conversion of “all nations”; for it is “in this mountain,” namely, Zion, that the latter are to have the veil taken off (Ps 102:13, 15, 16, 21, 22; Ro 11:12).

8. Quoted in 1 Co 15:54, in support of the resurrection.

swallow up … in victory—completely and permanently “abolish” (2 Ti 1:10; Rev 20:14; 21:4; compare Ge 2:17; 3:22).

rebuke—(Compare Mk 8:38; Heb 11:26).

Jamieson, R., Fausset, A. R., & Brown, D. (1997). Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (Vol. 1, p. 458). Oak Harbor, WA: Logos Research Systems, Inc.