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Song of Praise for God's Favor

¹ O LORD, You are ^(C1)my God;
I will exalt You, I will praise and give thanks to Your name;
For You have done ^(C2)miraculous things,
^(C3)Plans formed long, long ago, fulfilled with perfect faithfulness.

² For You have made a city into a ^(C1)heap of trash,
A ^(C2)fortified city into a ruin;
A ^(C3)palace of ^(F1)foreigners is no longer a city,
It will never be rebuilt.

³ Therefore a strong people will ^(C1)honor You;
^(C2)Cities of terrible and violent nations will fear You.

⁴ For You have been a ^(C1)stronghold for the helpless,
A stronghold for the poor in his distress,
A ^(C2)shelter from the storm, a shade from the heat;
For the breath of ^(C3)tyrants
Is like a rainstorm against a wall.

⁵ Like heat in a dry land, You will subdue the ^(C1)noise of foreigners rejoicing over their enemies;
Like heat in the shadow of a cloud, the song of the tyrants is ^(F1)silenced.

⁶ On this mountain Zion ^(C1)the LORD of hosts will prepare a lavish banquet for ^(C2)all peoples to welcome His reign on earth,
A banquet of aged wines—choice pieces flavored with marrow,
Of refined, aged wines.

⁷ And on this mountain He will destroy the ^(C1)covering that is cast over all peoples,
And the veil of death that is woven and spread over all the nations.

⁸ He will ^(C1)swallow up death and abolish it for all time.
And the Lord GOD will ^(C2)wipe away tears from all faces,
And He will take away the ^(C3)disgrace of His people from all the earth;
For the LORD has spoken. ^(VR1)

⁹ It will be said in that day,
"Indeed, this is ^(C1)our God for whom we have ^(C2)waited that ^(C3)He would save us.
This is the LORD for whom we have waited;
^(C4)Let us shout for joy and rejoice in His salvation."

¹⁰ For the hand of the LORD will rest on this mountain Zion,
And ^(C1)Moab will be trampled down in his place
As straw is trampled down in the filthy water of a manure pile.

¹¹ And Moab will ^(C1)spread out his hands in the middle of the filth
As a swimmer spreads out his hands to swim,
But the Lord will ^(C2)humiliate his pride in spite of the skillful movements of his hands.

¹² The ^(C1)high fortifications of your walls He will bring down,
Lay low, and cast to the ground, to the dust.