Rejoicing in God’s salvation

¹LORD , you are my God.

I will exalt you; I will praise your name,

for you have done wonderful things,

²You have turned the city into rubble,

the fortified town into a ruin,

the fortress of foreigners into a city no more,

never to be rebuilt.

³Therefore, strong people will glorify you;

the towns of tyrant nations will fear you.

⁴You have been a refuge for the poor,

a refuge for the needy in distress,

a hiding place from the storm,

a shade from the heat.

When the breath of tyrants is like a winter storm

⁵or like heat in the desert,

you subdue the roar of foreigners.

Like heat shaded by a cloud,

the tyrants’ song falls silent.

⁶On this mountain,

the LORD of heavenly forces will prepare for all peoples

⁷He will swallow up on this mountain the veil that is veiling all peoples,

the shroud enshrouding all nations.

⁸He will swallow up death forever.[#25.8 Heb Maveth]

The LORD God will wipe tears from every face;

he will remove his people’s disgrace from off the whole earth,

⁹They will say on that day,

“Look! This is our God,

for whom we have waited—

and he has saved us!

This is the LORD , for whom we have waited;

let’s be glad and rejoice in his salvation!”

¹⁰The LORD ’s hand will indeed rest on this mountain.

Moab will be trampled down

as straw is trampled into manure.

¹¹When in it they spread out their hands

as swimmers spread out their hands to swim,

God will lay low their pride, even by the efforts of their hands.

¹²The fortified towers of their walls[#25.12 Or your]

will be thrown down, will be leveled,

will be brought down to the earth, to the dust.