13. Hear, you who are far off, what I have done;you who are near, acknowledge my might.
14. In Zion sinners are in dread,trembling grips the impious:“Who of us can live with consuming fire?who of us can live with everlasting flames?”
15. Whoever walks righteously and speaks honestly,who spurns what is gained by oppression,Who waves off contact with a bribe,who stops his ears so as not to hear of bloodshed,who closes his eyes so as not to look on evil—
16. That one shall dwell on the heights,with fortresses of rock for stronghold,food and drink in steady supply.
17. Your eyes will see a king in his splendor,they will look upon a vast land.
18. Your mind will dwell on the terror:“Where is the one who counted, where the one who weighed?Where the one who counted the towers?”
19. You shall no longer see a defiant people,a people of speech too obscure to comprehend,stammering in a tongue not understood.
20. Look to Zion, the city of our festivals;your eyes shall see Jerusalemas a quiet abode, a tent not to be struck,Whose pegs will never be pulled up,nor any of its ropes severed.
21. Indeed the Lord in majesty will be there for usa place of rivers and wide streamson which no galley may go,where no majestic ship may pass.
22. For the Lord is our judge,the Lord is our lawgiver,the Lord is our king;he it is who will save us.
23. The rigging hangs slack;it cannot hold the mast in place,nor keep the sail spread out.Then the blind will divide great spoilsand the lame will carry off the loot.
24. No one who dwells there will say, “I am sick”;the people who live there will be forgiven their guilt.