God Will Swallow Up Death Forever
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O LORD, 1you are my God; 2I will exalt you; I will praise your name, for you have done wonderful things, 3plans formed of old, faithful and sure.
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For you have made the city 4a heap, the fortified city a ruin; the foreigners' palace is a city no more; it will never be rebuilt.
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5Therefore strong peoples will glorify you; cities of ruthless nations will fear you.
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6For you have been a stronghold to the poor, a stronghold to the needy in his distress, 7a shelter from the storm and a shade from the heat; 8for the breath of the ruthless is like a storm against a wall,
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9like heat in a dry place. You subdue the noise of the foreigners; as heat by the shade of a cloud, so the song of the ruthless is put down.
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10On this mountain the LORD of hosts will make for all peoples a feast of rich food, a feast of well-aged wine, 11of rich food full of marrow, of aged wine well refined.
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And he will swallow up 12on this mountain the covering that is cast over all peoples, 13the veil that is spread over all nations.
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14He will swallow up death forever; and 15the Lord GOD will wipe away tears from all faces, and 16the reproach of his people he will take away from all the earth, 17for the LORD has spoken.
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It will be said on that day, "Behold, this is our God; 18we have waited for him, that he might save us. This is the LORD; we have waited for him; 19let us be glad and rejoice in his salvation."
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For the hand of the LORD will rest 20on this mountain, and 21Moab shall be trampled down in his place, as straw is trampled down in a dunghill.a
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22And he will spread out his hands in the midst of it as a swimmer spreads his hands out to swim, but the LORD 23 will lay low his pompous pride together with the skillb of his hands.
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And the high fortifications of his walls he will bring down, lay low, and cast to the ground, to the dust.
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