¹Woe to the one who devastates, though you yourself have not been devastated; and to the one who betrays, though they have not betrayed him. When you finish devastating, you will be devastated; when you complete betraying, they will betray you.

²Yahweh, show us favor; we have waited for you. Be their arm every morning, and our deliverance in the time of distress.

³From the sound of the tumult peoples fled; from your rising up nations scattered.

⁴Your plunder will be gathered, as with the gathering of the locust; like the rushing of locusts, one rushes upon it.

⁵Yahweh is exalted, for he dwells on high; he has filled Zion with justice and righteousness.

⁶And the steadiness of your times will be the riches of deliverances, wisdom and knowledge; the fear of Yahweh, that is his treasury.

⁷Look, their brave ones have cried out outside; the messengers of wholeness weep bitterly.

⁸The highways lie desolate; the one passing by the path has ceased. He has broken the covenant, rejected cities, and has not reckoned any human.

⁹The land has mourned and languished; Lebanon is put to shame, it has withered; the Sharon has become like the Desert Plain, and Bashan and Carmel are shaking off their leaves.

¹⁰Now I will rise, says Yahweh; now I will make myself high; now I will lift myself up.

¹¹You will conceive chaff, you will bear stubble; your breath is a fire that will eat you up.

¹²And peoples will be burnings of lime, thornbushes cut down; in the fire they will be set ablaze.

¹³Hear, you who are far, what I have done; and know, you who are near, my might.

¹⁴Sinners in Zion are in dread; trembling has seized the godless. Who among us can live with a consuming fire? Who among us can live with blazing masses that burn forever?

¹⁵The one who walks in righteousness and speaks what is level; who rejects unjust gain from extortions, who shakes his palms free of taking hold of a bribe, who shuts his ear from hearing of bloodshed, and who shuts his eyes from looking on evil.

¹⁶He will dwell on the heights; his secure height is the mountain-fastnesses of the crags; his food is given, his water is sure.

¹⁷Your eyes will gaze at a king in his splendor; they will see a land of far distances.

¹⁸Your heart will muse on dread: where is the one who counts? Where is the one who weighs? Where is the one who counts the towers?

¹⁹You will not see a barbarous people, a people too deep of lip to hear, stammering of tongue, with no understanding.

²⁰Gaze on Zion, the town of our appointed meetings; your eyes will see Jerusalem, a dwelling at ease, a tent that will not move on, its stakes will not be pulled up for all time, and none of its cords will be torn apart.

²¹But there Yahweh will be majestic for us, a place of rivers, channels wide on every side; no ship of oars will go on it, and no majestic ship will cross it.

²²For Yahweh is our judge, Yahweh is our lawgiver, Yahweh is our king; he himself will save us.

²³Your ropes hang loose; they cannot hold firm the base of their mast, they cannot spread the sail. Then the prey of plunder is divided in abundance; the lame plunder the spoil.

²⁴And no resident will say, I am sick; the people that dwells in it has its guilt lifted.