1. O Lord, you are my God; I will exalt you; I will praise your name,for you have done wonderful things, plans formed of old, faithful and sure.
2. For you have made the city a heap,the fortified city a ruin;the foreigners’ palace is a city no more;it will never be rebuilt.
3. Therefore strong peoples will glorify you;cities of ruthless nations will fear you.
4. For you have been a stronghold to the poor,a stronghold to the needy in his distress, a shelter from the storm and a shade from the heat; for the breath of the ruthless is like a storm against a wall,
5. like heat in a dry place.You subdue the noise of the foreigners;as heat by the shade of a cloud,so the song of the ruthless is put down.
6. On this mountain the Lord of hosts will make for all peoplesa feast of rich food, a feast of well-aged wine, of rich food full of marrow, of aged wine well refined.
7. And he will swallow up on this mountainthe covering that is cast over all peoples, the veil that is spread over all nations.