Excerpt - Apocalyptic Commentary of the Book of Isaiah by Avraham Gileadi, Ph.D.

25:1 [In that day you will say,] O Jehovah, you are my God; I will extol you by praising your name. For with perfect faithfulness you have performed wonders, things planned of old.

After the calamities of Jehovah’s Day of Judgment are over, the righteous survivors of his people sing Songs of Salvation. In this instance using the personal pronouns “I” and “my,” their psalm is individualized, signifying that through the coming times of trial only individuals remain loyal to Jehovah. The “wonder/s” Jehovah planned of old (Isaiah 12:5; 29:14) consist of his purpose to exalt the earth and its inhabitants (Isaiah 4:2; 62:1–3), meaning that at some point its wicked inhabitants—after being given the chance to participate in Jehovah’s plan—must depart this sphere (Isaiah 13:9; 37:26–27).

25:2–3 You have made the city a heap of rubble, fortified towns a ruin—heathen mansions shall no more form cities, nor ever be rebuilt! For this will powerful peoples revere you, a community of tyrannous nations fear you.

The “city” and “town/s” (Isaiah 24:10, 12; 26:5–6; 27:10) that nuance Isaiah’s concept of a Greater Babylon here again epitomize the wicked of the world, who are identified as “heathen” or “aliens” (zarim). After being reduced to rubble and ruin—to chaos—their cities can’t be rebuilt as their operation and architecture were out of harmony with Jehovah’s heavenly design. The Assyrian alliance—the “powerful peoples” and “tyrannous nations” who destroyed others—will “revere” and “fear” Jehovah when they see their mighty power dwarfed by his and their evil institutions utterly razed (Isaiah 17:12–14).

25:4–5 You were a refuge for the poor, a shelter for the needy in distress, a covert from the downpour and shade from the heat. When the blasts of tyrants beat down like torrents against a wall, or like scorching heat in the desert, you quelled the onslaughts of the heathen: as burning heat by the shade of a cloud, you subdued the power of tyrants.

The terms “refuge,” “shelter,” “covert,” and “shade” typify Jehovah’s deliverance of his people (Isaiah 1:8; 32:2; 51:16), who here again appear as the “poor” and “needy” (Isaiah 10:2; 14:30; 41:17). In his Day of Judgment, Jehovah shelters them from enemy assaults “by the shade of a cloud”—his cloud of glory—which protects them from the fiery “downpour” and burning “heat” (Isaiah 4:3–6; 49:10). Secondarily, the downpour and heat designate the king of Assyria/Babylon, that tyrant of tyrants who launches the fiery holocaust upon a corrupt and wicked world (Isaiah 28:2, 17–19; 33:11–14; 42:25).

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