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¹ Ah, destroyer, and yourself not destroyed!
    And treacherous one, and no one has dealt treacherously with him!^[a]
When you cease^[b] destroying, you will be destroyed.
    When you stop dealing treacherously, one will deal treacherously with you.
² Yahweh, be gracious to us, we wait for you.
    Be our^[c] arm in the mornings,
    indeed our salvation in the time of trouble.
³ At the sound of tumult, peoples fled;
    because of your exaltation, nations scattered.
⁴ And your spoil is gathered,
    as the gathering of the locust,
        as a swarm of locusts storming on it.
⁵ Yahweh is exalted, for he dwells on high;
    he filled Zion with justice and righteousness,
⁶ and he will be the security of your times,
    an abundance of salvation, wisdom, and knowledge.

⁷ Look! Their heroes cry out in the street;
    the messengers of peace weep bitterly.
⁸ Highways are deserted;
    the traveler on the road ceases.
One breaks a treaty,
    he rejects the cities,^[d]
    he does not hold man in high regard.
⁹ The land mourns; it languishes.
    Lebanon feels abashed; it withers.
Sharon is like the desert,
    and Bashan and Carmel are losing their leaves.^[e]
10 "Now I will arise," says Yahweh.
    "Now I will lift myself up proudly;
    now I will raise myself.
¹¹ You conceive dry grass, you bring forth stubble;
    your breath is a fire; it will consume you.
¹² And the peoples will be burning to lime—
    they are burned like thorns that have been cut down in the fire.
¹³ You who are far away, hear what I have done;
    and you who are near, know my might!"
¹⁴ Sinners are afraid in Zion;
    trembling has seized the godless:
"Who of us can live^[f] with devouring fire?
    Who of us can live^[g] with everlasting consuming hearths?"
¹⁵ He who walks in righteousness
    and speaks uprightness,
who rejects the gain of extortion,
    who refuses^[h] a bribe,
who stops up his ears^[i] from hearing bloodshed^[j]
    and shuts his eyes from seeing evil.
¹⁶ That one will live on the heights;
    the fortresses of rocks will be his refuge.
His food will be given;
    his waters^[k] will endure.
¹⁷ Your eyes will see the king in his beauty;
    they will see a distant land.^[l]
18 Your mind^[m] will meditate on the terror:
    "Where is the one who counted?
Where is the one who weighed out?
    Where is the one who counted the towers?"
¹⁹ You will not see the insolent people,
    the people whose language is too obscure to understand,^[n]
        whose stammering of tongue cannot be understood.^[o]
20 Look on Zion, the city of our appointed festivals!
    Your eyes will see Jerusalem,
an undisturbed settlement,
    a tent that is not moved.^[p]
No one will ever pull out its tent pegs,
    and none of its ropes will be torn in two.
²¹ Rather, there Yahweh will be mighty for us,
    a place of rivers and broad streams,^[q]
a galley ship with^[r] oars^[s] cannot go in it,
    and a mighty ship cannot pass through it.
²² For Yahweh is our judge; Yahweh is our lawgiver.
    Yahweh is our king; he is the one who will save us.
²³ Your riggings hang slack;
    they do not hold the base of their mast firm,
        they do not spread out the sail.
Then the prey of spoil in abundance will be divided;
    the lame will take plunder.
²⁴ And no inhabitant will say, "I am sick";
    the people who live in it, their iniquity will be taken away.