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Song of Praise for God's Favor

¹ LORD, You are ^(C1)my God;
I will exalt You, I will give thanks to Your name;
For You have ^(C2)worked wonders,
^(C3)Plans formed long ago, with perfect faithfulness.

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

³ Therefore a strong people will ^(C1)glorify You;
^(C2)Cities of ruthless nations will revere You.

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

⁵ Like heat in a dry land, You subdue the ^(C1)uproar of foreigners;
Like heat by the shadow of a cloud, the song of the ruthless is ^(F1)silenced.

^6 (C1)Now the LORD of armies will prepare a ^(F1)lavish banquet for ^(C2)all peoples on this mountain;
A banquet of ^(F2)aged wine, ^(F3)choice pieces with marrow,
And ^(F4)refined, aged wine.

⁷ And on this mountain He will destroy the ^(F1)(C1)covering which is over all peoples,
The veil which is ^(F2)stretched over all nations.

⁸ He will ^(F1)(C1)swallow up death for all time,
And the Lord ^(F2)GOD will ^(C2)wipe tears away from all faces,
And He will remove the ^(C3)disgrace of His people from all the earth;
For the LORD has spoken.

⁹ And it will be said on that day,
"Behold, ^(C1)this is our God for whom we have ^(C2)waited ^(F1)that ^(C3)He might save us.
This is the LORD for whom we have waited;
^(C4)Let's rejoice and be glad in His salvation."

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

¹¹ And he will ^(C1)spread out his hands in the middle of it
As a swimmer spreads out his hands to swim,
But the Lord will ^(C2)lay low his pride together with the trickery of his hands.

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