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Isaiah 24:1-27:13

Death Swallowed Up

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Death Swallowed Up

Isaiah 24:1-27:13

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This song belongs to the Isaiah collection. One recording is available to play here, with the complete lyrics below.

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[Movement I] The earth lost balance beneath broken vows, Kings and servants stood level somehow. The city of confusion shut every door, He will swallow death upon the mountain, [Movement II] Yet a song crossed the islands from a faithful few. We waited through night; now salvation is named, The feast has been spread and reproach is removed. He will wipe every face where the tears have been. [Movement III] A strong city rises with truth for its wall, Open the gate to the steadfast of heart. Leviathan bends to the sword of the LORD, The vineyard is guarded, its roots taking hold. [Bridge] Then one trumpet sounds over river and sea, The scattered come home and bow down on the mountain. [Coda] He will swallow death upon the mountain, He will wipe every face where the tears have been. Then one trumpet sounds over river and sea, The scattered come home and bow down on the mountain.

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Isaiah 24: The earth staggers, and distant voices begin to sing

Isaiah 24 widens the horizon until named nations disappear into an earth shaken by the conduct of its inhabitants. Social rank, economic position, and religious status provide no protected side of the transaction. The earth is defiled, cities lose their music, houses close, gates fall, and only gleanings remain. Yet praise rises from distant places in the middle of that devastation, not after every grief has been neatly resolved. Isaiah himself answers the songs with anguish over continuing treachery. Fear, pit, and snare then make escape unreliable while the ground itself reels under the weight of transgression. The chapter's final reach is larger still. Powers on high and kings on earth are gathered under judgment, and even sun and moon lose their familiar splendor before the LORD reigning in Zion. The world comes apart, but divine kingship does not.

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Isaiah 25: The feast where death becomes the thing swallowed

Isaiah 25 answers the collapse of the previous chapter with praise rooted in the LORD's faithful purpose. A fortified city becomes a ruin, but the poor and needy discover strength as refuge rather than domination. The mountain of the LORD then becomes the setting for a feast whose richness is deliberately excessive: abundant food and refined wine for all peoples. Yet the meal is only the beginning. The covering over the nations is removed, tears are wiped away, and death, the great consumer, becomes the thing swallowed in victory. Waiting ends in recognition and rejoicing: "this is our God." The chapter does not let that universal horizon turn pride into something harmless. Moab is still brought low, and its lofty fortification descends all the way to dust. The secure mountain is secure because the LORD's hand rests there, not because height itself can save.

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Isaiah 26: A song of strong walls reaches into the dust

Isaiah 26 is a song about security that repeatedly refuses to confuse strength with self-sufficiency. Its strong city is protected by salvation, not merely by walls, and its gates open to a people characterized by faithfulness. Against it stands the lofty city brought down until the poor walk over its remains. The prayer that follows holds longing and resistance in the same world: some wait for the LORD through the night, while others refuse to learn even under favor. Former lords who exercised real dominion lose both rule and remembrance. The people's own painful labor, meanwhile, is confessed to have produced no deliverance. Then the chapter crosses a boundary human effort cannot cross: the dead live, dust awakens, and the earth releases those it held. The closing call to shelter is temporary, while concealed blood is exposed and no longer covered.

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