Isaiah 25:1

XXV.

(1) O Lord, thou art my God. — The burst of praise follows, like St. Paul’s in Romans 11:33, upon the contemplation of the glory of the heavenly city.

Thy counsels of old are faithfulness and truth. — It is better to omit the words in italics, and to treat the words as standing in the objective case, in apposition with “wonderful things.” The “counsels of old” are the eternal purposes of God made known to His prophets. The absence of a conjunction in the Hebrew, emphasises the enumeration.