Isaiah 25:3 “Therefore shall the strong people glorify thee, the city of the terrible nations shall fear thee. 4 For thou hast been a strength to the poor, a strength to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shadow from the heat, when the blast of the terrible ones is as a storm against the wall. 5 Thou shalt bring down the noise of strangers, as the heat in a dry place; even the heat with the shadow of a cloud: the branch of the terrible ones shall be brought low.”
Even in the most trying times, we have reason to rejoice; for, Our “Lord of hosts” “hast made of a city an heap” and reduced “a defenced city a ruin” and “hast made” “a palace of strangers to be no city”; it is so completely ruined that “it shall never be built” back (Isaiah 25:2); “Therefore shall the strong people glorify thee”! That is “the strong” adversaries of God and His people and His Church shall be utterly destroyed by the Almighty “Lord of host”. John saw this mighty work of the “Lord of host” and wrote, “And the same hour was there a great earthquake, and the tenth part of the city fell, and in the earthquake were slain of men seven thousand: and the remnant were affrighted, and gave glory to the God of heaven.” (Revelation 11:13). So traumatic will be the destruction wrought by the “Lord of hosts” that those who observe it will exclaim, “Who shall not fear thee, O Lord, and glorify thy name? for thou only art holy: for all nations shall come and worship before thee; for thy judgments are made manifest.” (Revelation 15:4). Even “the city of the terrible nations shall fear thee”; that is, even the most formidable enemies of God and godliness will be compelled to fearfully surrender to Him and fall-down before Him in submission. Therefore, let us hear our Lord’s encouraging exhortation, “Be still, and know that I am God: I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth.” (Psalms 46:10). And let us be of good courage and herald, “The LORD of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our refuge. Selah.” (Psalms 46:11), and proclaim “Yea, all kings shall fall down before him: all nations shall serve him.” (Psalms 72:11). In spite of how ominous our present situation may seem, we have every reason to join the Heavenly chorus as they declare, “Alleluia: for the Lord God omnipotent reigneth.” (Revelation 19:6)!