What does Isaias Chapter 25 say, and which statements belong to its speaker?

Atlas of Saints · Chapter summary

The chapter’s sequence retains its particular images and conditions. Edition interpretations remain separately attributed rather than certified claims. Promises and warnings retain their scope without invented scenes or universal practical guarantees.

Chapter breakdown

Isaias 25 gives thanks for wonderful deeds and faithful ancient designs. A strong city and strangers' house become ruins never rebuilt; strong people praise and mighty nations fear. Strength for poor and needy, whirlwind refuge and heat-shadow oppose the mighty blast. Strangers' tumult is brought down and the mighty branch withers under the heat imagery.

On this mountain the Lord prepares fat things full of marrow and wine purified from lees for all people. He destroys the face of the bond and the web over nations, casts death headlong forever, wipes tears and removes his people's reproach. The people confess their patient waiting and rejoice in salvation. The bond is not assigned a definite sorrow-veil or spiritual-blindness mechanism, nor is the wine declared aged.

The Lord's hand rests on the mountain and Moab is trodden like straw broken with a wain. The edition interprets Moab as the reprobate and its figures as eternal punishment; this remains attributed commentary. Outstretched hands resemble swimming, glory is brought down, and high walls fall to dust. An exhausted drowning enemy, impenetrable physical protection and distinct physical-versus-spiritual death doctrine are not added.

The story inside

Opening: The chapter’s sequence retains its particular images and conditions. Development: Edition interpretations remain separately attributed rather than certified claims. Conclusion: Promises and warnings retain their scope without invented scenes or universal practical guarantees.

Lessons worth keeping

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The chapter’s sequence retains its particular images and conditions.
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Edition interpretations remain separately attributed rather than certified claims.
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Promises and warnings retain their scope without invented scenes or universal practical guarantees.

Test your recall

Which images and requests does the speaker use, and what does the chapter leave unresolved?

Source edition and notes

Douay–Rheims, revised by Richard Challoner (1749–1752). Project Gutenberg no. 1581. Locators refer to lines in the admitted pg1581.txt edition. Source notes may include Challoner commentary.

Lines 80468–80471
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.
Lines 80484–80487
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.
Lines 80494–80499
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. Moab.... That is, the reprobate, whose eternal punishment, from which they can no way escape, is described under these figures.