1 Woe, O destroyer, even you never destroyed, and [you] treacherous one, and they have never betrayed him! At the completion of your destroying, you will be destroyed; as you finish being treacherous, they will deal treacherously with you. VP
2 O YHWH, show favor to us; we wait for You! Be their arm in the mornings, also our salvation in the time of distress. VP
3 From the voice of roaring the peoples will flee, from Your rising up the nations will be scattered. VP
4 Your⁺ plunder will be gathered as gathers the locust; as the rushing of locusts shall he run upon it. VP
5 YHWH is exalted, for He dwells on high; He has filled Zion [with] justice and righteousness. VP
6 He will be the steadfastness of your times, and a wealth of salvation, wisdom, and knowledge—the fear of YHWH is his treasure. VP
7 Behold, “Their Ariel” they have cried outside; the messengers of peace do weep bitterly. VP
8 [For] the highways are desolate, the road has ceased [from] those traveling. He has broken the covenant; he has despised the witnesses; he has not regarded man. VP
9 The land mourns [and] languishes; Lebanon is ashamed [and] decays; Sharon has become like the Arabah, and Bashan and Carmel shake off. VP
10 “Now I will arise,” says YHWH; “Now I will be exalted, now I will lift Myself up! VP
11 You⁺ conceive chaff, you⁺ give birth to stubble. Your⁺ breath [like] a fire will devour you⁺. VP
12 And the people will be [like] the burnings of lime, cut thorns, they will be burned in the fire. VP
13 Hear, far away ones, what I have done, and acknowledge, near ones, My might.” VP
14 The sinful ones in Zion are afraid, trembling has seized the godless: “Who of us can dwell with a consuming fire? Who of us can dwell with burnings forever?” VP
15 The one walking righteously and speaking uprightly; the one rejecting the gain of oppression, shaking his hands away from grasping at a bribe; the one shutting his ears from hearing of bloodshed and closing his eyes from looking at evil; VP
16 He will dwell on the heights; strongholds in the cliffs [are] his refuge; his bread will be given, his water will be sure. VP
17 Your eyes will gaze [at] the King in His beauty; they will see a land faraway. VP
18 Your heart will ponder the terror: “Where [is] the one counting? Where [is] the one weighing? Where [is] the one counting the towers?” VP
19 A fierce people you will not see, a people [in] the depths of speech, beyond hearing, a stammering of the tongue without understanding. VP
20 Look upon Zion, the city of our appointed times; let your eyes look on Jerusalem—a quiet abode, a tent that does not wander; will not be pulled out one of its pegs forever, and all of its cords cannot be broken. VP
21 But there YHWH [is] majestic for us, a place of rivers [and] streams broad of hands, [where] no fleet with oar shall go on it, and a majestic ship will not pass over it. VP
22 For YHWH [is] the One judging us; YHWH [is] the One decreeing for us; YHWH [is] our King; He will save us. VP
23 Your ropes are slack—they cannot hold the firmness of their mast; they cannot spread out the sail. Then the prey will be divided, plunder [in] great [abundance]—[even] the lame will seize the spoils! VP
24 [And] the dweller will not say “I am sick;” [for] the people dwelling in it will be lifted of iniquity. VP