1 Yahweh, you are my God; I will exalt you, I will praise your name;
for you have done wonderful things, even counsels of old, in
faithfulness and truth. 2 For you have made of a city a heap, of a
fortified city a ruin, a palace of strangers to be no city; it shall never be
built. 3 Therefore shall a strong people glorify you; a city of awesome
nations shall fear you. 4 For you have been a stronghold to the poor, a
stronghold to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shade
from the heat, when the blast of the awesome ones is as a storm against the
wall. 5 As the heat in a dry place will you bring down the noise of
strangers; as the heat by the shade of a cloud, the song of the awesome ones
shall be brought low. 6 In this mountain will Yahweh of Hosts make to all
peoples a feast of fat things, a feast of wines on the lees, of fat things
full of marrow, of wines on the lees well refined. 7 He will destroy in
this mountain the surface of the covering that covers all peoples, and the
veil that is spread over all nations. 8 He has swallowed up death forever;
and the Lord Yahweh will wipe away tears from off all faces; and the reproach
of his people will he take away from off all the earth: for Yahweh has spoken
it. 9 It shall be said in that day, Behold, this is our God; we have
waited for him, and he will save us: this is Yahweh; we have waited for him,
we will be glad and rejoice in his salvation. 10 For in this mountain will
the hand of Yahweh rest; and Moab shall be trodden down in his place, even as
straw is trodden down in the water of the dung-hill. 11 He shall spread
forth his hands in the midst of it, as he who swims spreads forth his
hands to swim; but Yahweh will lay low his pride together with
the craft of his hands. 12 The high fortress of your walls has he brought
down, laid low, and brought to the ground, even to the dust.
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