1. Woe to you who destroy, but you weren’t destroyed;and who betray, but nobody betrayed you!When you have finished destroying, you will be destroyed;and when you have finished betrayal, you will be betrayed.
2. Lord, be gracious to us. We have waited for you.Be our strength every morning,our salvation also in the time of trouble.
3. At the noise of the thunder, the peoples have fled.When you lift yourself up, the nations are scattered.
4. Your plunder will be gathered as the caterpillar gathers.Men will leap on it as locusts leap.
5. The Lord is exalted, for he dwells on high.He has filled Zion with justice and righteousness.
6. There will be stability in your times, abundance of salvation, wisdom, and knowledge.The fear of the Lord is your treasure.
7. Behold, their valiant ones cry outside;the ambassadors of peace weep bitterly.
8. The highways are desolate.The travelling man ceases.The covenant is broken.He has despised the cities.He doesn’t respect man.
9. The land mourns and languishes.Lebanon is confounded and withers away.Sharon is like a desert, and Bashan and Carmel are stripped bare.
10. “Now I will arise,” says the Lord;“Now I will lift myself up.Now I will be exalted.
11. You will conceive chaff.You will give birth to stubble.Your breath is a fire that will devour you.
12. The peoples will be like the burning of lime,like thorns that are cut down and burnt in the fire.
13. Hear, you who are far off, what I have done;and, you who are near, acknowledge my might.”
14. The sinners in Zion are afraid.Trembling has seized the godless ones.Who amongst us can live with the devouring fire?Who amongst us can live with everlasting burning?
15. He who walks righteously,and speaks blamelessly;He who despises the gain of oppressions,who gestures with his hands, refusing to take a bribe,who stops his ears from hearing of blood,and shuts his eyes from looking at evil—