1 O LORD, You are my God; I will exalt You, I will praise Your name; for You have done wonderful things; surely You have brought to pass and established the counsels that You promised long ago to bring to pass. 2 For You have made the unfortified cities heaps of rubble; the fortified city is a ruin; the idolatrous house of the nations in the city of Jerusalem will never be built up again. 3 Therefore the strong people will glorify You, the city of ruthless nations will fear You. 4 For You have been a strength to the poor, a help to the needy in the time of distress, like those who are sheltered from a storm, or who are sheltered as in a shade from the scorching heat; for the words of the wicked against the righteous are like a storm that beats against the wall. 5 As the scorching heat in a dry land, You will bring low the tumult of the mighty; as the shade of a cooling rock in a parched land, so peace of mind will come to the righteous when the wicked are brought low. 6 And on this mountain the LORD of hosts will make a feast and a banquet; they think it will be for their glory, but it will be for their disgrace and for mighty afflictions from which they will not deliver themselves, afflictions through which they will come to an end. 7 The face of the prince, the prince of all the peoples, will be destroyed, and the face of the king, the ruler of all the kingdoms. 8 Death will be forgotten forever; and the Lord GOD will wipe away tears from all faces, and the reproach of His people He will remove from all the earth, because it has been decreed so by the Memra of the LORD. 9 And one will say at that time, “Surely this is our God; this is He for whom we have hoped, and He will save us; this is the LORD, for His Memra we have hoped; we will rejoice and be glad in His salvation.” 10 For the power of the LORD of hosts will be revealed on this mountain;⁠a and the Moabites will be trampled underfoot, as straw is trampled in the clay. 11 And He will stretch out the stroke of His power among them, as a swimmer stretches himself out to swim; and He will bring low their pride, together with the schemes of their hands. 12 He will cast down the fortified city, the great city; He will thrust it down, bring it to the ground, even to the dust.