¹Adonai , you are my God.

I exalt you, I praise your name.

For you have accomplished marvels,

[fulfilled] ancient plans faithfully and truly.

²For you have made a city a heap of stones,

turned a fortified city into rubble,

made the foreigners’ fortress

a city that will never be rebuilt.

³Therefore mighty peoples glorify you,

the city of ruthless nations fears you.

⁴For you have been a refuge for the poor,

a refuge for the needy in distress,

shelter from the storm,

shade from the heat —

for the blast from the ruthless

was like a storm that could destroy a wall.

⁵Like desert heat, you subdue

the foreigners’ uproar;

like heat subdued by a cloud’s shadow,

the song of the ruthless dies away.

⁶On this mountain Adonai -Tzva’ot

will make for all peoples

a feast of rich food and superb wines,

delicious, rich food and superb, elegant wines.

⁷On this mountain he will destroy

the veil which covers the face of all peoples,

the veil enshrouding all the nations.

⁸He will swallow up death forever.

Adonai Elohim will wipe away

the tears from every face,

and he will remove from all the earth

the disgrace his people suffer.

For Adonai has spoken.

⁹On that day they will say,

“See! This is our God!

We waited for him to save us.

This is Adonai ; we put our hope in him.

We are full of joy, so glad he saved us!”

¹⁰For on this mountain

the hand of Adonai will rest.

But Mo’av will be trampled down where they are,

like straw trampled into a pile of manure.

¹¹They will spread out their hands in Mo’av,

like a swimmer using his hands to tread water;

but their pride will be humbled and sunk,

no matter how clever the strokes of their hands.

¹²Your high, fortified walls he will level,

strike to the ground, lay in the dust.