1. Woe to you who plunder! Will you yourselves not also be plundered? And woe to you who despise! Will you yourselves not also be despised? When you will have completed your plundering, you will be plundered. When, out of fatigue, you will have ceased acting with contempt, you will be treated with contempt.
2. O Lord, take pity on us. For we have waited for you. Be our arm in the morning and our salvation in the time of tribulation.
3. From the voice of the Angel, the people fled. And from your exultation, the nations were scattered.
4. And your spoils will be gathered together, just as the locusts are collected when the ditches have become filled with them.
5. The Lord has been magnified, because he has lived on high. He has filled Zion with judgment and justice.
6. And there will be faith in your times: the riches of salvation, wisdom and knowledge. For the fear of the Lord is his treasure.
7. Behold, outside, those who see will cry out. The Angels of peace will weep bitterly.
8. The roads have become desolate. Travelers have ceased along the paths. The covenant has been nullified. He has tossed aside cities. He has disregarded men.
9. The earth has mourned and languished. Lebanon has been confounded and desecrated. And Sharon has become like a desert. And Bashan and Carmel have been struck together.
10. "Now, I will rise up!" says the Lord. "Now I will be exalted! Now I will lift myself up!"
11. You will conceive heat. You will give birth to stubble. Your own spirit will devour you like fire.
12. And the people will be like the ashes from a fire. They will be consumed by fire like a bundle of thorns.
13. "You who are far away, listen to what I have done! And you who are near, acknowledge my strength!"
14. The sinners in Zion are terrified; trembling has taken hold of the hypocrites. Who among you is able to live with a devouring fire? Who among you will live with an everlasting flame?