1 Woe to him who comes to plunder you; will they not plunder you? And woe to him who comes to despoil; will they not despoil you? When you come to plunder, they will plunder you; and when you are weary of despoiling, they will despoil you. 2 O LORD, be merciful to us; we have hoped for Your Memra; be our strength every day, and our salvation in the time of distress. 3 At the sound of a tumultuous noise the peoples flee; because of the multitude of mighty deeds the kingdoms are scattered. 4 And the house of Israel will gather the treasures of the peoples, their enemies, as the locusts are gathered; they will be armed with the instruments of war, as those who are armed with a sling. 5 Mighty is the LORD, who makes His Shekinah dwell in the highest heavens, who has promised to fill Zion with those who do true justice and righteousness. 6 And whatever good You have promised to those who fear You, You will bring and establish it in its time: strength and salvation, wisdom and knowledge. For those who fear the LORD, the treasure of His goodness is prepared. 7 When You reveal Yourself to them, the messengers of the nations will cry out bitterly in the street; those who had gone out to proclaim peace will return to weep in bitterness of soul. 8 The highways lie desolate, the traveler ceases; because they have forgotten the covenant, they will be removed far from their cities; they have had no regard for the sons of men, and evil will come upon them. 9 The land mourns and is laid desolate; Lebanon is withered and shakes off its leaves; Sharon has become like a desert; Bashan and Carmel are laid desolate. 10 Now I will reveal myself, says the LORD; now I will lift myself up on high; now I will be exalted. 11 You, O peoples, have planned for yourselves plans of iniquity; you have worked for yourselves evil works; because your works are evil, my Memra will consume you, as a whirlwind consumes chaff. 12 And the peoples will be like the burning of fire, like thorns that are cut up and burned in the fire. 13 Hear, you righteous who have kept the Torah from of old, what I have done; and know, you sinners who have returned to my Torah, that my strength is near. 14 The sinners in Zion are afraid; terror has seized the wicked, who, when they were committing theft in their ways, said, “Who of us can dwell in Zion, in which the brightness of His Shekinah is like devouring fire? Who of us can sojourn in Jerusalem, where the wicked will be judged, to be delivered into hell, into everlasting burning?” 15 The prophet said, The just will live in it, everyone who walks in righteousness and speaks honest things, who keeps himself far from the mammon of iniquity,⁠a who keeps himself from oppressions, who restrains his hands from holding a bribe, who stops his ears from hearing of the shedding of innocent blood, and who shuts his eyes from looking at the workers of iniquity. 16 His dwelling will be in a high and exalted place; in the house of the sanctuary his soul will be satisfied; his food will be sufficient; his waters will continue, like a fountain of water whose waters do not fail. 17 Your eyes will see the Shekinah of the King of the worlds in His beauty; you will look and see those who go down to hell. 18 Your heart will meditate on great things: Where are the scribes? Where are the rulers? Where are those who counted the towers? Let them come, if they are able to count the number of the slain of the chief of the camp of the mighty. 19 You will no longer see the government of a fierce people, a people whose language is so obscure that you cannot understand it, whose tongue stammers, because there is no understanding in them. 20 O Zion, you will see their fall; O city of our festivals, your eyes will see the consolation of Jerusalem in her prosperity and security, like a tent that is not taken down, whose pegs are never pulled up, and whose cords will not be broken. 21 Surely from there the power of the LORD will be revealed to do good to us, from the place where broad, overflowing rivers will flow, through which no fisherman’s boat will pass, nor will any large ship go through it. 22 For the LORD is our judge, who by His power brought us out of Egypt; the LORD is our teacher, who gave us the teaching of the Torah from Sinai; the LORD is our king, He will redeem us and execute for us the vengeance of judgment on the host of Gog. 23 At that time the people will be stripped of their strength and will be like a ship whose ropes are broken, with no strength in their mast, which is cut down so that it is not possible to spread a sail on it; then the house of Israel will divide the treasures of the peoples, the abundance of spoil and prey; and although the blind and the lame are left among them, they too will divide the abundance of spoil and prey. 24 From now on they will not say to the people who dwell around them, “I will return to the Shekinah.” (From you the evil plague has come upon us.) The people, the house of Israel, will be gathered together, and they will return to their land, their sins being forgiven.