1. O Lord, you are my God.I will highly honor you; I will praise your name.You have done miraculous things.You have been completely reliablein carrying out your plans from long ago.
2. You have turned cities into ruins,fortified cities into piles of rubble,and foreigners’ palaces into cities that will never be rebuilt.
3. That is why strong people will honor you,and cities ruled by the world’s tyrants will fear you.
4. You have been a refuge for the poor,a refuge for the needy in their distress,a shelter from the rain, and shade from the heat.(A tyrant’s breath is like a rainstorm against a wall,
5. like heat in a dry land.)You calm the uproar of foreigners.The song of tyrants is silencedlike heat that is ⌊reduced⌋ by the shadow of a cloud.
6. On this mountain the Lord of Armies will prepare for all peoplea feast with the best foods,a banquet with aged wines,with the best foods and the finest wines.