1. Yahweh, you are my God. I will exalt you! I will praise your name, for you have done wonderful things, things planned long ago, in complete faithfulness and truth.
2. For you have made a city into a heap, a fortified city into a ruin, a palace of strangers to be no city. It will never be built.
3. Therefore a strong people will glorify you. A city of awesome nations will fear you.
4. For you have been a stronghold to the poor, a stronghold to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shade from the heat, when the blast of the dreaded ones is like a storm against the wall.