Praise to the Lord

¹O Lord , You are my God.

I will exalt You, I will praise Your name,

for You have done wonderful things;

Your plans formed of old

are faithfulness and truth.

²For You have made a city into a heap,

a fortified city into a ruin;

a palace of strangers is a city no longer;

it shall never be built.

³Therefore a strong people shall glorify You;

cities of ruthless nations shall fear You.

⁴For You have been a defense to the poor,

a defense to the needy in his distress,

a refuge from the storm,

a shadow from the heat;

for the breath of the ruthless ones

is as a storm against the wall.

⁵You bring down the noise of strangers,

as heat in drought;

as the heat by the shadow of a cloud,

the song of the ruthless ones shall be brought low.

⁶In this mountain the Lord of Hosts shall prepare[#Isa 2:2–3]

for all people a lavish feast,

a feast of aged wines,

choice pieces full of marrow, and refined, aged wines.

⁷He will destroy in this mountain

the covering which is over all peoples,

even the veil that is spread over all nations.

⁸He will swallow up death for all time,[#Hos 13:14; 1Co 15:54]

and the Lord God will wipe away tears

from all faces;

and the reproach of His people He shall take away

from all the earth,

for the Lord has spoken it.

⁹It shall be said in 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;

we will be glad and rejoice in His salvation.

¹⁰For in this mountain the hand of the Lord shall rest,[#Isa 25:6]

and Moab shall be trodden down in his place

as straw is trodden down in the water for the manure pile.

¹¹He shall spread out his hands in the midst of it,[#Isa 5:25; 14:26]

as a swimmer spreads out his hands to swim,

yet the Lord shall bring down his pride

together with the trickery of his hands.

¹²The unassailable fortresses of your walls

He shall bring down, lay low,

and bring to the ground,

even to the dust.