Isaiah 25:3
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New International Version (©2011)
Therefore strong peoples will honor you; cities of ruthless nations will revere you.

New Living Translation (©2007)
Therefore, strong nations will declare your glory; ruthless nations will fear you.

English Standard Version (©2001)
Therefore strong peoples will glorify you; cities of ruthless nations will fear you.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
Therefore a strong people will glorify You; Cities of ruthless nations will revere You.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
Therefore shall the strong people glorify thee, the city of the terrible nations shall fear thee.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
Therefore, a strong people will honor You. The cities of violent nations will fear You.

International Standard Version (©2012)
Therefore strong peoples will glorify you; cities of ruthless nations will revere you.

NET Bible (©2006)
So a strong nation will extol you; the towns of powerful nations will fear you.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
That is why strong people will honor you, and cities ruled by the world's tyrants will fear you.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
Therefore shall the strong people glorify you, the city of the terrible nations shall fear you.

American King James Version
Therefore shall the strong people glorify you, the city of the terrible nations shall fear you.

American Standard Version
Therefore shall a strong people glorify thee; a city of terrible nations shall fear thee.

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

Darby Bible Translation
Therefore shall the mighty people glorify thee, the city of terrible nations shall fear thee.

English Revised Version
Therefore shall the strong people glorify thee, the city of the terrible nations shall fear thee.

Webster's Bible Translation
Therefore shall the strong people glorify thee, the city of the terrible nations shall fear thee.

World English Bible
Therefore a strong people will glorify you. A city of awesome nations will fear you.

Young's Literal Translation
Therefore honour Thee do a strong people, A city of the terrible nations feareth Thee.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

25:1-5 However this might show the deliverance of the Jews out of captivity, it looked further, to the praises that should be offered up to God for Christ's victories over our spiritual enemies, and the comforts he has provided for all believers. True faith simply credits the Lord's testimony, and relies on his truth to perform his promises. As God weakens the strong who are proud and secure, so he strengthens the weak that are humble, and stay themselves upon him. God protects his people in all weathers. The Lord shelters those who trust in him from the insolence of oppressors. Their insolence is but the noise of strangers; it is like the heat of the sun scorching in the middle of the day; but where is it when the sun is set? The Lord ever was, and ever will be, the Refuge of distressed believers. Having provided them a shelter, he teaches them to flee unto it.

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 3. - Therefore shall the strong people glorify thee; rather, strong peoples. God's judgments on the nations specially hostile to him would cause some among the heathen peoples to range themselves on his side. Perhaps Persia is mainly intended (see Isaiah 44:28; Isaiah 45:1, etc.; and comp. Ezra 1:1-4; Ezra 6:3-12, etc.). The city of the terrible nations; rather, cities of terrible nations. Though the noun is singular, the verb is plural, showing that the word "city" is again used distributively.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Therefore shall the strong people glorify thee,.... To whom the Lord is strength, as in the following verse Isaiah 25:4; who are strong in the Lord, in the power of his might, and in the grace that is in him; or such of the antichristian party as shall be awakened and convinced by the judgments of God on antichrist, and shall be converted, these shall give glory to the God of heaven, Revelation 11:13,

the city of the terrible nations shall fear thee; or such who have belonged to the city or jurisdiction of Rome, and have been terrible to the people of God, yet now shall be frightened themselves, and shall fear the Lord, either with a servile fear, or some, at least, with a truly filial fear; see Revelation 11:13.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

3. strong people—This cannot apply to the Jews; but other nations on which Babylon had exercised its cruelty (Isa 14:12) shall worship Jehovah, awed by the judgment inflicted on Babylon (Isa 23:18).

city—not Babylon, which shall then be destroyed, but collectively for the cities of the surrounding nations.

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Song of Praise for God's Favor
1O Lord, you are my God; I will exalt you, I will praise your name; for you have done wonderful things; your counsels of old are faithfulness and truth. 2For you have made of a city an heap; of a defended city a ruin: a palace of strangers to be no city; it shall never be built. 3Therefore shall the strong people glorify you, the city of the terrible nations shall fear you. …

Isaiah 13:11 I will punish the world for its evil, the wicked for their sins. I will put an end to the arrogance of the haughty and will humble the pride of the ruthless.
Isaiah 24:15 Therefore in the east give glory to the LORD; exalt the name of the LORD, the God of Israel, in the islands of the sea.
Isaiah 29:5 But your many enemies will become like fine dust, the ruthless hordes like blown chaff. Suddenly, in an instant,
Micah 7:17 They will lick dust like a snake, like creatures that crawl on the ground. They will come trembling out of their dens; they will turn in fear to the LORD our God and will be afraid of you.