The
Great Isaiah Scroll, the best preserved of the biblical scrolls found at
Qumran from the second century BC, contains all the verses in this chapter.
The parashah sections listed here are based on the
Aleppo Codex.[4] Isaiah 25 is a part of the Prophecies about Judah and Israel (
Isaiah 24–35). {P}: open parashah; {S}: closed parashah.
"I suppose the whole scope of the passage requires us to understand this of
Babylon. There has been, however, a great variety of interpretation of this passage.
Grotius supposed that
Samaria was intended.
Calvin that the word is used collectively, and that various cities are intended.
Piscator that
Rome, the seat of
antichrist, was intended.
Jerome says that the
Jews generally understand it of Rome.
Aben Ezra and
Kimchi, however, understand it to refer to many cities which they say will be destroyed in the times of
Gog and Magog.
"Fat things full of
marrow": special food for a banquet (to complement the "wines on the lees well refined") such as "prepared by Wisdom in
Proverbs 9:1–6".[9]
^The New Oxford Annotated Bible with the Apocrypha, Augmented Third Edition, New Revised Standard Version, Indexed. Michael D. Coogan, Marc Brettler, Carol A. Newsom, Editors. Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA; 2007. pp. 1011-1012 Hebrew Bible.
ISBN978-0195288810
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abThe Nelson Study Bible. Thomas Nelson, Inc. 1997.
ISBN9780840715999. pp. 1149-1150.