¹ Woe to you that spoilest, and you were not spoiled; and deals treacherously, and they dealt not treacherously with you! when you will cease to spoil, you will be spoiled; and when you will make an end to deal treacherously, they will deal treacherously with you. ² O LORD, be gracious to us; we have waited for you: be their arm every morning, our salvation also in the time of trouble. ³ At the noise of the tumult the people fled at the lifting up of yourself the nations were scattered. ⁴ And your spoil will be gathered like the gathering of the caterpiller: as the running to and fro of locusts will he run on them. ⁵ The LORD is exalted for he dwells on high: he has filled Zion with judgment and righteousness. ⁶ And wisdom and knowledge will be the stability of your times, and strength of salvation: the fear of the LORD is his treasure. ⁷ See, their valiant ones will cry without: the ambassadors of peace will weep bitterly. ⁸ The highways lie waste, the wayfaring man ceases: he has broken the covenant, he has despised the cities, he regards no man. ⁹ The earth mourns and languishes: Lebanon is ashamed and hewn down: Sharon is like a wilderness and Bashan and Carmel shake off [their fruits]. ¹⁰ Now will I rise, says the LORD; now will I be exalted; now will I lift up myself. ¹¹ You will conceive chaff, you will bring forward stubble: your breath, as fire, will devour you. ¹² And the people will be as the burnings of lime: as thorns cut up will they be burned in the fire. ¹³ Hear, you that are far off, what I have done; and, you that are near, acknowledge my might. ¹⁴ The sinners in Zion are afraid fearfulness has surprised the hypocrites. Who among us will dwell with the devouring fire? who among us will dwell with everlasting burnings? ¹⁵ He that walks righteously, and speaks uprightly; he that despises the gain of oppressions, that shakes his hands from holding of bribes, that stops his ears from hearing of blood, and shuts his eyes from seeing evil; ¹⁶ He will dwell on high: his place of defense will be the munitions of rocks: bread will be given him his waters will be sure. ¹⁷ Your eyes will see the king in his beauty: they will see the land that is very far off. ¹⁸ Your heart will meditate terror. Where is the scribe ? where is the receiver ? where is he that counted the towers? ¹⁹ you will not see a fierce people, a people of a deeper speech than you can perceive; of a stammering tongue, that you can not understand. ²⁰ Look on Zion, the city of our solemnities: your eyes will see Jerusalem a quiet habitation, a tabernacle that will not be taken down; not one of the stakes of it will ever be removed, neither will any of the cords of it be broken. ²¹ But there the glorious LORD will be to us a place of broad rivers and streams; in which will go no galley with oars, neither will gallant ship pass thereby. ²² For the LORD is our judge, the LORD is our lawgiver, the LORD is our king; he will save us. ²³ your tacklings are released; they could not well strengthen their mast, they could not spread the sail: then is the prey of a great spoil divided; the lame take the prey. ²⁴ And the inhabitant will not say, I am sick: the people that dwell in it will be forgiven their iniquity.