1. The Lord, 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.
5. As the heat in a dry place will you bring down the noise of strangers; as the heat by the shade of a cloud, the song of the dreaded ones will be brought low.
6. In this mountain, the Lord of Hosts will make all peoples a feast of choice meat, a feast of choice wines, of choice meat full of marrow, of well refined choice wines.
7. He will destroy in this mountain the surface of the covering that covers all peoples, and the veil that is spread over all nations.
8. He has swallowed up death forever! The Lord GOD will wipe away tears from off all faces. He will take the reproach of his people away from off all the earth, for the Lord has spoken it.