1. Ah, you destroyer,who yourself have not been destroyed,you traitor,whom none has betrayed!When you have ceased to destroy,you will be destroyed;and when you have finished betraying,they will betray you.
2. O Lord, be gracious to us; we wait for you.Be our arm every morning,our salvation in the time of trouble.
3. At the tumultuous noise peoples flee;when you lift yourself up, nations are scattered,
4. and your spoil is gathered as the caterpillar gathers; as locusts leap, it is leapt upon.
5. The Lord is exalted, for he dwells on high;he will fill Zion with justice and righteousness,
6. and he will be the stability of your times,abundance of salvation, wisdom, and knowledge;the fear of the Lord is Zion’s treasure.
7. Behold, their heroes cry in the streets; the envoys of peace weep bitterly.
8. The highways lie waste;the traveler ceases. Covenants are broken;cities are despised;there is no regard for man.
9. The land mourns and languishes;Lebanon is confounded and withers away;Sharon is like a desert,and Bashan and Carmel shake off their leaves.
10. “Now I will arise,” says the Lord,“now I will lift myself up;now I will be exalted.
11. You conceive chaff; you give birth to stubble;your breath is a fire that will consume you.
12. And the peoples will be as if burned to lime, like thorns cut down, that are burned in the fire.”