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¹ Woe to you that destroy, and you were not destroyed; and deal treacherously, and they did not 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 O Yahweh, be gracious to us; we have waited for you: be the arm [which attacks] them every morning, our salvation also in the time of trouble.³ At the noise of the tumult the peoples have fled; at the lifting up of yourself the nations have scattered.⁴ And 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 And there shall be stability in your times, abundance of salvation, wisdom, and knowledge: the fear of Yahweh is his treasure.⁷ Look, I will appear to them; they cry out in the streets; 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 witnesses, he does not regard common 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 I will arise, says Yahweh; now I will lift up myself; now I will be exalted.¹¹ You shall be pregnant with chaff, you shall give birth to stubble: your breath is a fire that shall devour you.¹² And the peoples shall be as the burnings of lime, as thorns cut down, that are burned in the fire.

¹³ Hear, you that are far off, what I have done; and, you that 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 burnings?¹⁵ He that walks righteously, and speaks uprightly; he that despises the gain of oppressions, that shakes his hands from taking a bribe, that 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 look at a land that reaches far.¹⁸ Your heart shall muse on the terror: Where is he that counted, where is he that weighed [the tribute]? where is he that counted the towers?¹⁹ You shall not see the fierce people, a people of a deep speech that you can't comprehend, of a strange tongue that you can't understand.²⁰ Look at 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 thereof be broken.²¹ But there Yahweh will be with us in majesty, a place of broad rivers and streams, wherein 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 tacklings are loosed; they could not strengthen the foot of their mast, they could not spread the sail: then the prey of a great spoil was divided; the lame took the prey.²⁴ And the inhabitant shall not say, I am sick: the people that dwell therein shall be forgiven their iniquity.