Isaiah 25:3
Good News Translation
The people of powerful nations will praise you; you will be feared in the cities of cruel nations.

New Revised Standard Version
Therefore strong peoples will glorify you; cities of ruthless nations will fear you.

Contemporary English Version
Now strong and cruel nations will fear and honor you.

New American Bible
Therefore a strong people will honor you, ruthless nations will fear you.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Therefore shall a strong people praise thee, the city of mighty nations shall fear thee.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Therefore shall a strong people praise thee, the city of mighty nations shall fear thee.

Isaiah 49:23-26 And kings shall be thy nursing fathers, and queens thy nurses: they shall worship thee with their face toward the earth, and they shall lick up the dust of thy feet. And thou shalt know that I am the Lord, for they shall not be confounded that wait for him. . . .

Isaiah 60:10-14 And the children of strangers shall build up thy walls, and their kings shall minister to thee: for in my wrath have I struck thee, and in my reconciliation have I had mercy upon thee. . . .

Isaiah 66:18-20 But I know their works, and their thoughts: I come that I may gather them together with all nations and tongues: and they shall come and shall see my glory. . . .

Psalm 46:10,11 Be still and see that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations, and I will be exalted in the earth. . . .

Psalm 66:3 Say unto God, How terrible are thy works, O Lord! in the multitude of thy strength thy enemies shall lie to thee.

Psalm 72:8-11 And he shall rule from sea to sea, and from the river unto the ends of the earth. . . .

Ezekiel 38:23 And I will be magnified, and I will be sanctified: and I will be known in the eyes of many nations and they shall know that I am the Lord.

Ezekiel 39:21,22 And I will set my glory among the nations: and all nations shall see my judgment that I have executed, and my hand that I have laid upon them. . . .

Zechariah 14:9,16 And the Lord shall be king over all the earth: in that day there shall be one Lord, and his name shall be one. . . .

Revelation 11:13,15-17 And at that hour there was made a great earthquake: and the tenth part of the city fell. And there were slain in the earthquake, names of men, seven thousand: and the rest were cast into a fear and gave glory to the God of heaven. . . .

Context
A Song of Praise for God's Favor
2For 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. 3Therefore shall a strong people praise thee, the city of mighty nations shall fear thee.4Because 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.…
Cross References
Isaiah 13:11
And I will visit the evils of the world, and against the wicked for their iniquity: and I will make the pride of infidels to cease, and will bring down the arrogancy of the mighty.

Isaiah 24:15
Therefore glorify ye the Lord in instruction: the name of the Lord God of Israel in the islands of the sea.

Isaiah 29:5
And the multitude of them that fan thee, shall be like small dust: and as ashes passing away, the multitude of them that have prevailed against thee.

Micah 7:17
They shall lick the dust like serpents, as the creeping things of the earth, they shall be disturbed in their houses: they shall dread the Lord, our God, and shall fear thee.

Isaiah 25:2
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