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1Woe to the destroyer,[#Isa 21.2; 24.16; Jer 25.12–14; Hab 2.8; Mt 7.2]
who yourself have not been destroyed;
you treacherous one,
with whom no one has dealt treacherously!
When you have ceased to destroy,
you will be destroyed;
and when you have stopped dealing treacherously,
you will be dealt with treacherously.
2O Lord , be gracious to us; we wait for you.[#Isa 25.9]
Be our arm every morning,
our salvation in the time of trouble.
3At the sound of tumult, peoples fled;[#Isa 17.13; Jer 25.30, 31]
before your majesty, nations scattered.
4Spoil was gathered as the caterpillar gathers;
as locusts leap, they leaped upon it.
5The Lord is exalted; he dwells on high;[#Ps 97.9]
he filled Zion with justice and righteousness;
6he will be the stability of your times,[#v 20 ; Isa 11.9; 45.17; Mt 6.33]
abundance of salvation, wisdom, and knowledge;
the fear of the Lord is Zion’s treasure.
7Listen! The people of Ariel cry out in the streets;[#2 Kings 18.18, 37; #33.7 Heb mss: Meaning of MT uncertain]
the envoys of peace weep bitterly.
8The highways are deserted;
travelers have quit the road.
The treaty is broken;
its oaths are despised,
the people are disregarded.
9The land mourns and languishes;
Lebanon is confounded and withers away;
Sharon is like a desert,
and Bashan and Carmel shake off their leaves.
10“Now I will arise,” says the Lord ,
“now I will lift myself up;
now I will be exalted.
11You conceive chaff; you bring forth stubble;
wind like a fire will consume you.
12And the peoples will be as if burned to lime,
like thorns cut down that are burned in the fire.”
13Hear, you who are far away, what I have done,
and you who are near, acknowledge my might.
14The sinners in Zion are afraid;
trembling has seized the godless:
“Who among us can live with the devouring fire?
Who among us can live with everlasting flames?”
15Those who walk righteously and speak uprightly,
who despise the gain of oppression,
who wave away a bribe instead of accepting it,
who stop their ears from hearing of bloodshed
and shut their eyes from looking on evil,
16they will live on the heights;
their refuge will be the fortresses of rocks;
their food will be supplied, their water assured.
17Your eyes will see the king in his beauty;
they will behold a land that stretches far away.
18Your mind will muse on the terror:[#Isa 17.14; 1 Cor 1.20]
“Where is the one who counted?
Where is the one who weighed the tribute?
Where is the one who counted the towers?”
19No longer will you see the insolent people,[#Deut 28.49, 50; 2 Kings 19.32; Jer 5.15]
the people of an obscure speech that you cannot comprehend,
stammering in a language that you cannot understand.
20Look on Zion, the city of our appointed festivals![#Ps 46.5; 48.12; 125.1, 2; Isa 37.33; 54.2]
Your eyes will see Jerusalem,
a quiet habitation, an immovable tent
whose stakes will never be pulled up
and none of whose ropes will be broken.
21But there the Lord in majesty will be for us[#Isa 41.18]
a place of broad rivers and streams
where no galley with oars can go
nor stately ship can pass.
22For the Lord is our judge; the Lord is our ruler;[#v 17 ; Isa 2.4; 35.4; Zech 9.9; Jas 4.12]
the Lord is our king; he will save us.
23Your rigging hangs loose;[#2 Kings 7.8, 16]
it cannot hold the mast firm in its place
or keep the sail spread out.
Then the blind will divide abundant spoil,
and the lame will take plunder.
24And no inhabitant will say, “I am sick”;[#Jer 30.17; 50.20]
the people who live there will be forgiven their iniquity.