8. For the moth will eat them up like a garment;the worm will devour them like wool.But my righteousness will last for ever,my salvation through all generations.’
9. Awake, awake, arm of the Lord,clothe yourself with strength!Awake, as in days gone by,as in generations of old.Was it not you who cut Rahab to pieces,who pierced that monster through?
10. Was it not you who dried up the sea,the waters of the great deep,who made a road in the depths of the seaso that the redeemed might cross over?
11. Those the Lord has rescued will return.They will enter Zion with singing;everlasting joy will crown their heads.Gladness and joy will overtake them,and sorrow and sighing will flee away.
12. ‘I, even I, am he who comforts you.Who are you that you fear mere mortals,human beings who are but grass,
13. that you forget the Lord your Maker,who stretches out the heavensand who lays the foundations of the earth,that you live in constant terror every daybecause of the wrath of the oppressor,who is bent on destruction?For where is the wrath of the oppressor?
14. The cowering prisoners will soon be set free;they will not die in their dungeon,nor will they lack bread.
15. For I am the Lord your God,who stirs up the sea so that its waves roar –the Lord Almighty is his name.
16. I have put my words in your mouthand covered you with the shadow of my hand –I who set the heavens in place,who laid the foundations of the earth,and who say to Zion, “You are my people.” ’
17. Awake, awake!Rise up, Jerusalem,you who have drunk from the hand of the Lordthe cup of his wrath,you who have drained to its dregsthe goblet that makes people stagger.
18. Among all the children she borethere was none to guide her;among all the children she brought upthere was none to take her by the hand.
19. These double calamities have come upon you –who can comfort you? –ruin and destruction, famine and sword –who can console you?
20. Your children have fainted;they lie at every street corner,like antelope caught in a net.They are filled with the wrath of the Lord,with the rebuke of your God.
21. Therefore hear this, you afflicted one,made drunk, but not with wine.