1Woe [to] the destroyer, and you who [have] not been destroyed; and betrayer, and they have not betrayed you. When you stop destroying, you shall be destroyed. When you stop betraying, they shall betray you. 2O LORD, be gracious to us; we have waited for You; be their arm in the mornings; our salvation also in the time of trouble. 3At the noise of the tumult the people fled; at the lifting up of Yourself the nations were scattered. 4And your spoil shall be gathered [as] the stripping locust gathers; as the running to and fro of locusts he shall run on them. 5The LORD is exalted, for He dwells on high. He has filled Zion [with] judgment and righteousness. 6And He will be the security of your times, [and] strength of salvation, wisdom, and knowledge; the fear of the LORD [is] his treasure. 7Behold, their mighty ones shall cry outside; the messengers of peace shall weep bitterly. 8The highways lie waste, the traveler ceases. He has broken the covenant. He has despised the cities. He cared for no man. 9The earth mourns [and] droops. Lebanon is ashamed; Sharon withers like a wilderness; Bashan and Carmel are shaken out. 10Now I will rise, says the LORD; now I will be exalted; now I will lift up Myself. 11You shall conceive chaff, you shall bring out stubble; your breath, [like] fire, shall devour you. 12And the people shall be [like] the burnings of lime; [like] thorns cut up, they shall be burned in the. fire. 13You [who are] far off, hear what I have done; and you near ones, know My might. 14The sinners in Zion are afraid; terror has surprised profane ones. Who among us shall dwell [with] the devouring fire? Who among us shall dwell with everlasting burnings? 15He who walks righteously and speaks uprightly; he who despises the gain of oppressions, who shakes his hands free from holding bribes, who stops his ear from hearing of blood, and shuts his eyes from seeing evil; 16He shall dwell on high; his refuge [shall be] the strongholds of rocks; bread [shall be] given him; his waters shall be sure. 17Your eyes shall see the king in his beauty; they shall behold the land that is very far off. 18Your heart shall dwell on terror. Where [is] the scribe? Where [is] the one weighing? Where [is] the one counting the towers? 19You shall not see a fierce people, a people of a deeper speech than you can understand; of a foreign tongue that no one understands. 20Look on Zion, the city of our holy meetings; your eyes shall see Jerusalem a quiet home, a tabernacle that shall not be taken down; not one of its stakes shall ever be removed, nor shall any of its cords be broken. 21But there the glorious LORD [will be] to us a place of broad rivers [and] streams, in which no galley with oars shall go, nor shall mighty ship pass by it. 22For the LORD [is] our judge, the LORD [is] our lawgiver, the LORD [is] our king; He will save us. 23Your ropes are loosened, they do not hold the base of the mast; they could not spread the sail. Then the prey of a great spoil shall be divided; the lame take the prey. 24And an inhabitant, the people who live in it shall not say, I am sick; iniquity is taken away.