Isaiah 25:9 Study Bible: It shall be said in that day, "Look, this is our God. We have waited for him, and he will save us. This is the LORD. We have waited for him. We will be glad and rejoice in his salvation."

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And in that day it will be said, "Surely this is our God; we have waited for Him, and He has saved us. This is the LORD for whom we have waited. Let us rejoice and be glad in His salvation."

Study Bible

And in that day it will be said,

Isaiah looks ahead to the Day of the LORD, when God will judge rebellious nations, remove the oppression of His people, and establish His righteous reign. The surrounding passage portrays death itself being swallowed up and tears wiped away, reaching beyond any temporary deliverance to God’s final victory.

Zec 14:9 On that day the LORD will become King over all the earth—…
Mic 4:6 “On that day,” declares the LORD, “I will gather the lame;…
Jol 3:18 And in that day the mountains will drip with sweet wine…

“Surely this is our God;

The redeemed will openly recognize the Lord as the faithful God who kept every covenant promise. Israel’s confession recalls the praise offered after the Exodus, when God’s people saw that the Lord alone had delivered them from an enemy they could not overcome.

Psa 48:14 For this God is our God forever and ever;…
Psa 100:3 Know that the LORD is God. It is He who made us,…
1Ki 18:39 When all the people saw this, they fell facedown…

we have waited for Him,

Faithful waiting rests in God’s character while His purposes unfold. Isaiah called Judah to trust the Lord amid national danger, and later generations continued to await the promised King and salvation, as Simeon and Anna did at Christ’s first coming.

Psa 33:20 Our soul waits for the LORD; He is our help and our shield.
Psa 130:5 I wait for the LORD; my soul does wait, and in His word…
Gen 49:18 I await Your salvation, O LORD.

and He has saved us.

God’s salvation includes His deliverance of Israel from her enemies, but the wider context points to a greater rescue from sin, death, and sorrow. Jesus Christ accomplished the foundation of that salvation through His death and resurrection, and its fullness will be revealed when He returns.

Exo 15:2 He is my God, and I will praise Him, my father’s God,…
Psa 118:14 The LORD is my strength and my song, and He has become…
Psa 98:3 He has remembered His love and faithfulness…

This is the LORD for whom we have waited.

The God who saves is the covenant Lord known throughout Israel’s history. He is not a new or unknown deliverer, but the same Lord who called Abraham, redeemed Israel from Egypt, preserved a remnant, and promised redemption through the Messiah.

Psa 27:14 Wait patiently for the LORD; be strong and courageous.…
Psa 25:5 Guide me in Your truth and teach me, for You are the God…
Lam 3:25 The LORD is good to those who wait for Him,…

Let us rejoice and be glad in His salvation.”

Joy rises from the completed work of God rather than from human achievement. The celebration anticipates the kingdom banquet described earlier in the chapter and the final rejoicing of God’s people when Christ’s victory is fully displayed.

Psa 40:16 May all who seek You rejoice and be glad in You;…
Hab 3:18 yet I will exult in the LORD; I will rejoice…
Psa 35:9 Then my soul will rejoice in the LORD…

Persons / Places / Events

1. God (Yahweh)
The central figure in this verse, God is the one who brings salvation and is the object of the people's waiting and rejoicing.

2. The People of God
Those who have waited for the Lord and are now experiencing His salvation. They express their joy and gratitude in this proclamation.

3. Day of Salvation
This refers to the eschatological event when God's deliverance is fully realized, a time of fulfillment and joy for His people.

Teaching Points

The Certainty of God's Salvation
God's promise of salvation is sure and trustworthy. Believers are called to wait patiently, knowing that His deliverance will come in His perfect timing.

The Joy of Fulfilled Promises
When God fulfills His promises, it is a cause for great rejoicing. Reflect on the promises God has fulfilled in your life and respond with gratitude and joy.

The Importance of Waiting on the Lord
Waiting on the Lord is an act of faith and trust. It involves patience and hope, knowing that God is faithful to His word.

Rejoicing in God's Salvation
Salvation is not just a future hope but a present reality that should lead to daily rejoicing and gladness in the Lord.

Community of Believers
The proclamation in Isaiah 25:9 is communal. Believers are encouraged to share in the joy of salvation together, strengthening one another in faith.

Bible Study Questions

1. How does the concept of waiting for the Lord in Isaiah 25:9 challenge or encourage your current faith journey?

2. In what ways can you actively rejoice in God's salvation in your daily life?

3. How does the communal aspect of rejoicing in Isaiah 25:9 influence your view of worship and fellowship with other believers?

4. Reflect on a time when you experienced God's deliverance. How did it impact your faith and understanding of His promises?

5. How can the themes of waiting and rejoicing in Isaiah 25:9 be applied to the challenges faced by the church today?

Connections to Other Scriptures

Isaiah 12:2
This verse also speaks of God as salvation, emphasizing trust and the absence of fear, which parallels the theme of waiting and rejoicing in God's deliverance.

Revelation 19:1
The multitude in heaven praises God for His salvation, echoing the rejoicing and gladness found in Isaiah 25:9.

Psalm 118:24
This psalm speaks of the day the Lord has made, encouraging rejoicing and gladness, similar to the response of the people in Isaiah 25:9.

Sermons

A Forecast of the Last Judgment	H. P. Liddon, D. D.	Isaiah 25:9
Christ Our God	H. P. Liddon, D. D.	Isaiah 25:9
Connection Between the Confidence and the Character of the True Christian	E. Cooper.	Isaiah 25:9
God in History	H. P. Liddon, D. D.	Isaiah 25:9
National Thanksgiving	R. P. Finch, M. A.	Isaiah 25:9
Nativity	W. Jones, M. A.	Isaiah 25:9
The Glorious Appearing of the Great God and Our Saviour Jesus Christ	I. Hutchin, M. A.	Isaiah 25:9
Third Sunday in Advent	The Thinker	Isaiah 25:9
Waiting for God	R. Macculloch.	Isaiah 25:9
Waiting for God	T. F. Lockyer, B. A.	Isaiah 25:9
Waiting for God in Times of Darkness	H. P. Liddon, D. D.	Isaiah 25:9
Waiting on God	R. Tuck	Isaiah 25:9
A Feast of Fatness	J. C. Miller, D. D.	Isaiah 25:6-9
A Rich Feast for Hungry Souls	T. Boston, D. D.	Isaiah 25:6-9
Good Cheer for Christmas		Isaiah 25:6-9
In This Mountain	A. Maclaren, D. D.	Isaiah 25:6-9
Needy Man and His Moral Provision	Homilist	Isaiah 25:6-9
The Feast Prepared by Jesus Christ	T. Boston, D. D.	Isaiah 25:6-9
The Gospel Feast	J. Benson, D. D.	Isaiah 25:6-9
The Gospel Feast	A. Bennie, M. A.	Isaiah 25:6-9
The Gospel Feast	R. Macculloch.	Isaiah 25:6-9
The Source of the World's Hope	A. Maclaren, D. D.	Isaiah 25:6-9
Tire Marriage Feast Between Christ and His Church		Isaiah 25:6-9
Veils Removed and Souls Feasted	"V" in Homilist	Isaiah 25:6-9
The Evening of Expectation	W. Clarkson	Isaiah 25:8, 9
Song of the Redeemed	E. Johnson	Isaiah 25:9-12

People

Isaiah

Places

Jerusalem, Moab

Topics

Behold, Delight, Glad, Hope, Joy, Rejoice, Salvation, Save, Saved, Saveth, Saviour, Trusted, Waited, Waiting

Dictionary of Bible Themes

Isaiah 25:9

     4921   day
     8031   trust, importance
     8135   knowing God, nature of
     8287   joy, experience
     8354   trustworthiness
     9140   last days

Isaiah 25:8-9

5797 bereavement, comfort in

Library

The Feast on the Sacrifice
And in this mountain shall the Lord of hosts make unto all people a feast.' ISAIAH xxv. 6. There is here a reference to Sinai, where a feast followed the vision of God. It was the sign of covenant, harmony, and relationship, and was furnished by a sacrifice. I. The General Ideas contained in this Image of a Feast. We meet it all through Scripture; it culminates in Christ's parables and in the 'Marriage Supper of the Lamb.' In the image are suggested:-- Free familiarity of access, fellowship, and …
Alexander Maclaren—Expositions of Holy Scripture

The Veil Over all Nations
'He will destroy in this mountain the face of the covering cast over all people, and the veil that is spread over all nations.'--ISAIAH xxv. 7. The previous chapter closes with a prediction of the reign of Jehovah in Mount Zion 'before His elders' in Glory. The allusion apparently is to the elders being summoned up to the Mount and seeing the Glory, 'as the body of heaven in its clearness.' The veil in this verse is probably a similar allusion to that which covered Moses' face. It will then be an …
Alexander Maclaren—Expositions of Holy Scripture

'In this Mountain'
'In this mountain shall the Lord of hosts make unto all people a feast of fat things, a feast of wines on the lees, of fat things full of marrow, of wines on the lees well refined. 7. And He will destroy in this mountain the face of the covering cast over all people, and the veil that is spread over all nations. 8. He will swallow up death in victory.'--ISAIAH xxv. 6-8. A poet's imagination and a prophet's clear vision of the goal to which God will lead humanity are both at their highest in this …
Alexander Maclaren—Expositions of Holy Scripture

Consolations against the Fear of Death.
If in the time of thy sickness thou findest thyself fearful to die, meditate-- 1. That it argueth a dastardly mind to fear that which is not; for in the church of Christ there is no death (Isa. xxv. 7, 8), and whosoever liveth and believeth in Christ, shall never die (John xi. 26). Let them fear death who live without Christ. Christians die not; but when they please God, they are like Enoch translated unto God (Gen. v. 24;) their pains are but Elijah's fiery chariot to carry them up to heaven (2 …
Lewis Bayly—The Practice of Piety

The Restoration of Israel is Only Made Possible by the Second Advent of Christ.
Under this head we shall seek to prove briefly three things--that Israel as a nation will be restored, that Israel's restoration occurs at the Return of Christ, that Israel's restoration will result in great blessing to the whole world. That Israel as a nation will be actually and literally restored is declared again and again in the Word of God. We quote now but two prophecies from among scores of similar ones:--"Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that I will raise unto David a righteous Branch, …
Arthur W. Pink—The Redeemer's Return

Of Meditating on the Future Life.
1. The design of God in afflicting his people. 1. To accustom us to despise the present life. Our infatuated love of it. Afflictions employed as the cure. 2. To lead us to aspire to heaven. 2. Excessive love of the present life prevents us from duly aspiring to the other. Hence the disadvantages of prosperity. Blindness of the human judgment. Our philosophizing on the vanity of life only of momentary influence. The necessity of the cross. 3. The present life an evidence of the divine favour to his …
John Calvin—The Institutes of the Christian Religion

The Signs
There are indications that to some of those who took part in the crucifixion of Christ His death presented hardly anything to distinguish it from an ordinary execution; and there were others who were anxious to believe that it had no features which were extraordinary. But God did not leave His Son altogether without witness. The end of the Saviour's sufferings was accompanied by certain signs, which showed the interest excited by them in the world unseen. I. The first sign was the rending of the …
James Stalker—The Trial and Death of Jesus Christ

Religion Pleasant to the Religious.
"O taste and see how gracious the Lord is; blessed is the man that trusteth in Him."--Psalm xxxiv. 8. You see by these words what love Almighty God has towards us, and what claims He has upon our love. He is the Most High, and All-Holy. He inhabiteth eternity: we are but worms compared with Him. He would not be less happy though He had never created us; He would not be less happy though we were all blotted out again from creation. But He is the God of love; He brought us all into existence, …
John Henry Newman—Parochial and Plain Sermons, Vol. VII

The Return to Capernaum - Healing of the Centurion's Servant.
We are once again in Capernaum. It is remarkable how much, connected not only with the Ministry of Jesus, but with His innermost Life, gathers around that little fishing town. In all probability its prosperity was chiefly due to the neighbouring Tiberias, which Herod Antipas [2583] had built, about ten years previously. Noteworthy is it also, how many of the most attractive characters and incidents in the Gospel-history are connected with that Capernaum, which, as a city, rejected its own real glory, …
Alfred Edersheim—The Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah

The Resurrection
'Marvel not at this: for the hour is coming, in the which all that are in the graves shall hear his voice, and shall come forth; they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life; and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation.' John 5:58, 29. Q-38: WHAT BENEFITS DO BELIEVERS RECEIVE FROM CHRIST AT THE RESURRECTION? A: At the resurrection, believers being raised up in glory, shall be openly acknowledged and acquitted in the day of judgement, and made perfectly blessed in the …
Thomas Watson—A Body of Divinity

Death Swallowed up in victory
Then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory! D eath, simply considered, is no more than the cessation of life --that which was once living, lives no longer. But it has been the general, perhaps the universal custom of mankind, to personify it. Imagination gives death a formidable appearance, arms it with a dart, sting or scythe, and represents it as an active, inexorable and invincible reality. In this view death is a great devourer; with his iron tongue …
John Newton—Messiah Vol. 2

Of Meditating on the Future Life.
The three divisions of this chapter,--I. The principal use of the cross is, that it in various ways accustoms us to despise the present, and excites us to aspire to the future life, sec. 1, 2. II. In withdrawing from the present life we must neither shun it nor feel hatred for it; but desiring the future life, gladly quit the present at the command of our sovereign Master, see. 3, 4. III. Our infirmity in dreading death described. The correction and safe remedy, sec. 6. 1. WHATEVER be the kind of …
Archpriest John Iliytch Sergieff—On the Christian Life

Messiah Worshipped by Angels
Let all the angels of God worship Him. M any of the Lord's true servants, have been in a situation so nearly similar to that of Elijah, that like him they have been tempted to think they were left to serve the Lord alone (I Kings 19:10) . But God had then a faithful people, and He has so in every age. The preaching of the Gospel may be compared to a standard erected, to which they repair, and thereby become known to each other, and more exposed to the notice and observation of the world. But we hope …
John Newton—Messiah Vol. 2

The Gospel Feast
"When Jesus then lifted up His eyes, and saw a great company come unto Him, He saith unto Philip, Whence shall we buy bread that these may eat?"--John vi. 5. After these words the Evangelist adds, "And this He said to prove him, for He Himself knew what He would do." Thus, you see, our Lord had secret meanings when He spoke, and did not bring forth openly all His divine sense at once. He knew what He was about to do from the first, but He wished to lead forward His disciples, and to arrest and …
John Henry Newman—Parochial and Plain Sermons, Vol. VII

Seven Sanctified Thoughts and Mournful Sighs of a Sick Man Ready to Die.
Now, forasmuch as God of his infinite mercy doth so temper our pain and sickness, that we are not always oppressed with extremity, but gives us in the midst of our extremities some respite, to ease and refresh ourselves, thou must have an especial care, considering how short a time thou hast either for ever to lose or to obtain heaven, to make use of every breathing time which God affords thee; and during that little time of ease to gather strength against the fits of greater anguish. Therefore, …
Lewis Bayly—The Practice of Piety

Death by Adam, Life by Christ
For since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead. For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive. F rom Mr. Handel's acknowledged abilities as a composer, and particularly from what I have heard of his great taste and success in adapting the style of his music to the subject, I judge, that this passage afforded him a fair occasion of displaying his genius and powers. Two ideas, vastly important in themselves, are here represented in the strongest light, …
John Newton—Messiah Vol. 2

Healing the Centurion's Servant.
(at Capernaum.) ^A Matt. VIII. 1, 5-13; ^C Luke VII. 1-10. ^c 1 After he had ended all his sayings in the ears of the people, ^a 1 And when he was come down from the mountain, great multitudes followed him. ^c he entered into Capernaum. [Jesus proceeded from the mountain to Capernaum, which was now his home, or headquarters. The multitudes which are now mentioned for the third time were not wearied by his sermon, and so continued to follow him. Their presence showed the popularity of Jesus, and also …
J. W. McGarvey—The Four-Fold Gospel

A Clearing-Up Storm in the Realm
(Revelation, Chapters vi.-viii.) "God Almighty! King of nations! earth Thy footstool, heaven Thy throne! Thine the greatness, power, and glory, Thine the kingdom, Lord, alone! Life and death are in Thy keeping, and Thy will ordaineth all: From the armies of Thy heavens to an unseen insect's fall. "Reigning, guiding, all-commanding, ruling myriad worlds of light; Now exalting, now abasing, none can stay Thy hand of might! Working all things by Thy power, by the counsel of Thy will. Thou art God! …
by S. D. Gordon—Quiet Talks on the Crowned Christ of Revelation

How to Make Use of Christ as the Truth, that we May Get Our Case and Condition Cleared up to Us.
The believer is oft complaining of darkness concerning his case and condition, so as he cannot tell what to say of himself, or what judgment to pass on himself, and he knoweth not how to win to a distinct and clear discovery of his state and condition. Now, it is truth alone, and the Truth, that can satisfy them as to this. The question then is, how they shall make use of, and apply themselves to this truth, to the end they may get the truth of their condition discovered to them. But first let us …
John Brown (of Wamphray)—Christ The Way, The Truth, and The Life

Questions.
LESSON I. 1. In what state was the Earth when first created? 2. To what trial was man subjected? 3. What punishment did the Fall bring on man? 4. How alone could his guilt be atoned for? A. By his punishment being borne by one who was innocent. 5. What was the first promise that there should be such an atonement?--Gen. iii. 15. 6. What were the sacrifices to foreshow? 7. Why was Abel's offering the more acceptable? 8. From which son of Adam was the Seed of the woman to spring? 9. How did Seth's …
Charlotte Mary Yonge—The Chosen People

Isaiah
CHAPTERS I-XXXIX Isaiah is the most regal of the prophets. His words and thoughts are those of a man whose eyes had seen the King, vi. 5. The times in which he lived were big with political problems, which he met as a statesman who saw the large meaning of events, and as a prophet who read a divine purpose in history. Unlike his younger contemporary Micah, he was, in all probability, an aristocrat; and during his long ministry (740-701 B.C., possibly, but not probably later) he bore testimony, as …
John Edgar McFadyen—Introduction to the Old Testament

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