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¹LORD, You are my God; I will exalt You, I will give thanks to Your name; For You have worked wonders, Plans formed long ago, with perfect faithfulness.

²For You have turned a city into a heap, A fortified city into a ruin; A palace of strangers is no longer a city, It will never be rebuilt.

³Therefore a strong people will glorify You; Cities of ruthless nations will revere You.

⁴For You have been a stronghold for the helpless, A stronghold for the poor in his distress, A refuge from the storm, a shade from the heat; For the breath of the ruthless Is like a rain storm against a wall.

⁵Like heat in a dry land, You subdue the uproar of foreigners; Like heat by the shadow of a cloud, the song of the ruthless is silenced.

⁶Now the LORD of armies will prepare a lavish banquet for all peoples on this mountain; A banquet of aged wine, choice pieces with marrow, And refined, aged wine.

⁷And on this mountain He will destroy the covering which is over all peoples, The veil which is stretched over all nations.

⁸He will swallow up death for all time, And the Lord GOD will wipe tears away from all faces, And He will remove the disgrace of His people from all the earth; For the LORD has spoken.

⁹And it will be said on that day, “Behold, this is our God for whom we have waited that He might save us. This is the LORD for whom we have waited; Let’s rejoice and be glad in His salvation.”

¹⁰For the hand of the LORD will rest on this mountain, And Moab will be trampled down in his place As straw is trampled down in the water of a manure pile.

¹¹And he will spread out his hands in the middle of it As a swimmer spreads out his hands to swim, But the Lord will lay low his pride together with the trickery of his hands.

¹²The unassailable fortifications of your walls He will bring down, Lay low, and throw to the ground, to the dust.

¹On that day this song will be sung in the land of Judah: “We have a strong city; He sets up walls and ramparts for security.

²Open the gates, that the righteous nation may enter, The one that remains faithful.

³The steadfast of mind You will keep in perfect peace, Because he trusts in You.

⁴Trust in the LORD forever, For in GOD the LORD, we have an everlasting Rock.

⁵For He has brought low those who dwell on high, the unassailable city; He lays it low, He lays it low to the ground, He casts it to the dust.

⁶The foot will trample it, The feet of the poor, the steps of the helpless.”

⁷The way of the righteous is smooth; O Upright One, make the path of the righteous level.

⁸Indeed, while following the way of Your judgments, LORD, We have waited for You eagerly; Your name, and remembering You, is the desire of our souls.

⁹At night my soul longs for You, Indeed, my spirit within me seeks You diligently; For when the earth experiences Your judgments, The inhabitants of the world learn righteousness.

¹⁰Though the wicked person is shown compassion, He does not learn righteousness; He deals unjustly in the land of uprightness, And does not perceive the majesty of the LORD.

¹¹LORD, Your hand is lifted up, yet they do not see it. They see Your zeal for the people and are put to shame; Indeed, fire will devour Your enemies.

¹²LORD, You will establish peace for us, Since You have also performed for us all our works.

¹³LORD, our God, other masters besides You have ruled us; But through You alone we confess Your name.

¹⁴The dead will not live, the departed spirits will not rise; Therefore You have punished and destroyed them, And You have eliminated all remembrance of them.

¹⁵You have increased the nation, LORD, You have increased the nation, You are glorified; You have extended all the borders of the land.

¹⁶LORD, they sought You in distress; They could only whisper a prayer, Your discipline was upon them.

¹⁷As the pregnant woman approaches the time to give birth, She writhes and cries out in her labor pains; This is how we were before You, LORD.

¹⁸We were pregnant, we writhed in labor, We gave birth, as it seems, only to wind. We could not accomplish deliverance for the earth, Nor were inhabitants of the world born.

¹⁹Your dead will live; Their corpses will rise. You who lie in the dust, awake and shout for joy, For your dew is as the dew of the dawn, And the earth will give birth to the departed spirits.

²⁰Come, my people, enter your rooms And close your doors behind you; Hide for a little while Until indignation runs its course.

²¹For behold, the LORD is about to come out from His place To punish the inhabitants of the earth for their wrongdoing; And the earth will reveal her bloodshed And will no longer cover her slain.

¹On that day the LORD will punish Leviathan the fleeing serpent, With His fierce and great and mighty sword, Even Leviathan the twisted serpent; And He will kill the dragon who lives in the sea.

²On that day, “A vineyard of beauty, sing of it!

³I, the LORD, am its keeper; I water it every moment. So that no one will damage it, I guard it night and day.

⁴I have no wrath. Should someone give Me briars and thorns in battle, Then I would step on them, I would burn them completely.

⁵Or let him rely on My protection, Let him make peace with Me, Let him make peace with Me.”

⁶In the days to come Jacob will take root, Israel will blossom and sprout, And they will fill the whole world with fruit.

⁷Like the striking of Him who has struck them, has He struck them? Or like the slaughter of His slain, have they been slain?

⁸You contended with them by banishing them, by driving them away. With His fierce wind He has expelled them on the day of the east wind.

⁹Therefore through this Jacob’s wrongdoing will be forgiven; And this will be the full price of the pardoning of his sin: When he makes all the altar stones like pulverized chalk stones; When Asherim and incense altars will not stand.

¹⁰For the fortified city is isolated, A homestead deserted and abandoned like the desert; There the calf will graze, And there it will lie down and feed on its branches.

¹¹When its limbs are dry, they are broken off; Women come and make a fire with them, For they are not a people of discernment, Therefore their Maker will not have compassion on them. And their Creator will not be gracious to them.

¹²On that day the LORD will thresh from the flowing stream of the Euphrates River to the brook of Egypt, and you will be gathered up one by one, you sons of Israel.

¹³It will come about also on that day that a great trumpet will be blown, and those who were perishing in the land of Assyria and who were scattered in the land of Egypt will come and worship the LORD on the holy mountain in Jerusalem.

¹Woe to the proud crown of the habitually drunk of Ephraim, And to the fading flower of its glorious beauty, Which is at the head of the fertile valley Of those who are overcome with wine!

²Behold, the Lord has a strong and mighty agent; As a storm of hail, a tempest of destruction, Like a storm of mighty overflowing waters, He has thrown it down to the earth with His hand.

³The splendid crown of the habitually drunk of Ephraim is trampled underfoot.

⁴And the fading flower of its glorious beauty, Which is at the head of the fertile valley, Will be like the first-ripe fig prior to the summer, Which one sees, And as soon as it is in his hand, He swallows it.

⁵On that day the LORD of armies will become a beautiful crown And a glorious wreath to the remnant of His people;

⁶A spirit of justice for him who sits in judgment, A strength to those who repel the onslaught at the gate.

⁷And these also reel with wine and stagger from intoxicating drink: The priest and the prophet reel with intoxicating drink, They are confused by wine, they stagger from intoxicating drink; They reel while having visions, They stagger when rendering a verdict.

⁸For all the tables are full of filthy vomit, without a single clean place.

⁹“To whom would He teach knowledge, And to whom would He interpret the message? Those just weaned from milk? Those just taken from the breast?

¹⁰For He says, ‘Order on order, order on order, Line on line, line on line, A little here, a little there.’ ”

¹¹Indeed, He will speak to this people Through stammering lips and a foreign tongue,

¹²He who said to them, “This is the place of quiet, give rest to the weary,” And, “This is the resting place,” but they would not listen.

¹³So the word of the LORD to them will be, “Order on order, order on order, Line on line, line on line, A little here, a little there,” That they may go and stumble backward, be broken, snared, and taken captive.

¹⁴Therefore, hear the word of the LORD, you scoffers, Who rule this people who are in Jerusalem,

¹⁵Because you have said, “We have made a covenant with death, And with Sheol we have made a pact. The gushing flood will not reach us when it passes by, Because we have made falsehood our refuge and we have concealed ourselves with deception.”

¹⁶Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: “Behold, I am laying a stone in Zion, a tested stone, A precious cornerstone for the foundation, firmly placed. The one who believes in it will not be disturbed.

¹⁷I will make justice the measuring line And righteousness the level; Then hail will sweep away the refuge of lies, And the waters will overflow the secret place.

¹⁸Your covenant with death will be canceled, And your pact with Sheol will not stand; When the gushing flood passes through, Then you will become its trampling ground.

¹⁹As often as it passes through, it will seize you; For morning after morning it will pass through, anytime during the day or night, And it will be sheer terror to understand what it means.”

²⁰The bed is too short on which to stretch out, And the blanket is too small to wrap oneself in.

²¹For the LORD will rise up as at Mount Perazim, He will be stirred up as in the Valley of Gibeon, To do His task, His unusual task, And to work His work, His extraordinary work.

²²And now do not carry on as scoffers, Or your shackles will be made stronger; For I have heard from the Lord GOD of armies Of decisive destruction on all the earth.

²³Listen and hear my voice, Pay attention and hear my words.

²⁴Does the farmer plow continually to plant seed? Does he continually turn and break up his ground?

²⁵Does he not level its surface And sow dill and scatter cumin And plant wheat in rows, Barley in its place and rye within its area?

²⁶For his God instructs and teaches him properly.

²⁷For dill is not threshed with a threshing sledge, Nor is the cartwheel driven over cumin; But dill is beaten out with a rod, and cumin with a club.

²⁸Grain for bread is crushed, Indeed, he does not continue to thresh it forever. Because the wheel of his cart and his horses eventually damage it, He does not thresh it longer.

²⁹This also comes from the LORD of armies, Who has made His counsel wonderful and His wisdom great.