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¹ O Lord, ^(a)you are my God;
    ^(b)I will exalt you; I will praise your name,
for you have done wonderful things,
    ^(c)plans formed of old, faithful and sure.
² For you have made the city ^(d)a heap,
    the fortified city a ruin;
the foreigners' palace is a city no more;
    it will never be rebuilt.
^3 (e)Therefore strong peoples will glorify you;
    cities of ruthless nations will fear you.
^4 (f)For you have been a stronghold to the poor,
    a stronghold to the needy in his distress,
    ^(g)a shelter from the storm and a shade from the heat;
^(h)for the breath of the ruthless is like a storm against a wall,
^{5     (i)}like heat in a dry place.
You subdue the noise of the foreigners;
    as heat by the shade of a cloud,
    so the song of the ruthless is put down.

^6 (j)On this mountain the Lord of hosts will make for all peoples
    a feast of rich food, a feast of well-aged wine,
    ^(k)of rich food full of marrow, of aged wine well refined.
⁷ And he will swallow up ^(l)on this mountain
    the covering that is cast over all peoples,
    ^(m)the veil that is spread over all nations.
^{8     (n)}He will swallow up death forever;
and ^(o)the Lord God will wipe away tears from all faces,
    and ^(p)the reproach of his people he will take away from all the earth,
    ^(q)for the Lord has spoken.
⁹ It will be said on that day,
    "Behold, this is our God; ^(r)we have waited for him, that he might save us.
    This is the Lord; we have waited for him;
    ^(s)let us be glad and rejoice in his salvation."
¹⁰ For the hand of the Lord will rest ^(t)on this mountain,
    and ^(u)Moab shall be trampled down in his place,
    as straw is trampled down in a dunghill.^[a]
11 (v)And he will spread out his hands in the midst of it
    as a swimmer spreads his hands out to swim,
    but the Lord ^(w)will lay low his pompous pride together with the skill^[b] of his hands.
¹² And the high fortifications of his walls he will bring down,
    lay low, and cast to the ground, to the dust.