[1] Woe to you who destroy, and you weren`t destroyed; and deal
treacherously, and they didn`t deal treacherously with you! When you have
ceased to destroy, you shall be destroyed; and when you have made an end of
dealing treacherously, they shall deal treacherously with you. [2] Yahweh,
be gracious to us; we have waited for you: be you our arm every morning,
our salvation also in the time of trouble. [3] At the noise of the tumult
the peoples are fled; at the lifting up of yourself the nations are
scattered. [4] Your spoil shall be gathered as the caterpillar gathers: as
locusts leap shall men leap on it. [5] Yahweh is exalted; for he dwells on
high: he has filled Zion with justice and righteousness. [6] There shall be
stability in your times, abundance of salvation, wisdom, and knowledge: the
fear of Yahweh is your treasure. [7] Behold, their valiant ones cry
outside; the ambassadors of peace weep bitterly. [8] The highways lie
waste, the wayfaring man ceases: [the enemy] has broken the covenant, he
has despised the cities, he doesn`t regard man. [9] The land mourns and
languishes; Lebanon is confounded and withers away; Sharon is like a
desert; and Bashan and Carmel shake off [their leaves]. [10] Now will I
arise, says Yahweh; now will I lift up myself; now will I be exalted. [11]
You shall conceive chaff, you shall bring forth stubble: your breath is a
fire that shall devour you. [12] The peoples shall be as the burning of
lime, as thorns cut down, that are burned in the fire. [13] Hear, you who
are far off, what I have done; and, you who are near, acknowledge my might.
[14] The sinners in Zion are afraid; trembling has seized the godless ones:
Who among us can dwell with the devouring fire? who among us can dwell with
everlasting burning? [15] He who walks righteously, and speaks blamelessly;
he who despises the gain of oppressions, who shakes his hands from taking a
bribe, who stops his ears from hearing of blood, and shuts his eyes from
looking on evil: [16] He shall dwell on high; his place of defense shall be
the munitions of rocks; his bread shall be given [him]; his waters shall be
sure. [17] Your eyes shall see the king in his beauty: they shall see a
land that reaches afar. [18] Your heart shall muse on the terror: Where is
he who counted, where is he who weighed [the tribute]? where is he who
counted the towers? [19] You shall not see the fierce people, a people of a
deep speech that you can not comprehend, of a strange language that you can
not understand. [20] Look on Zion, the city of our solemnities: your eyes
shall see Jerusalem a quiet habitation, a tent that shall not be removed,
the stakes whereof shall never be plucked up, neither shall any of the
cords of it be broken. [21] But there Yahweh will be with us in majesty, a
place of broad rivers and streams, in which shall go no galley with oars,
neither shall gallant ship pass thereby. [22] For Yahweh is our judge,
Yahweh is our lawgiver, Yahweh is our king; he will save us. [23] Your
rigging is loosed; they could not strengthen the foot of their mast, they
could not spread the sail: then was the prey of a great spoil divided; the
lame took the prey. [24] The inhabitant shall not say, I am sick: the
people who dwell therein shall be forgiven their iniquity.