8. For the moth will eat them up like a garment,And the worm will eat them like wool;But My righteousness will be forever,And My salvation from generation to generation.”
9. Awake, awake, put on strength,O arm of the Lord!Awake as in the ancient days,In the generations of old.Are You not the arm that cut Rahab apart,And wounded the serpent?
10. Are You not the One who dried up the sea,The waters of the great deep;That made the depths of the sea a roadFor the redeemed to cross over?
11. So the ransomed of the Lord shall return,And come to Zion with singing,With everlasting joy on their heads.They shall obtain joy and gladness;Sorrow and sighing shall flee away.
12. “I, even I, am He who comforts you.Who are you that you should be afraidOf a man who will die,And of the son of a man who will be made like grass?
13. And you forget the Lord your Maker,Who stretched out the heavensAnd laid the foundations of the earth;You have feared continually every dayBecause of the fury of the oppressor,When he has prepared to destroy.And where is the fury of the oppressor?
14. The captive exile hastens, that he may be loosed,That he should not die in the pit,And that his bread should not fail.