4. Your plunder will be gathered as the caterpillar gathers. Men will leap on it as locusts leap.
5. Yahweh is exalted, for he dwells on high. He has filled Zion with justice and righteousness.
6. There will be stability in your times, abundance of salvation, wisdom, and knowledge. The fear of Yahweh is your treasure.
7. Behold, their valiant ones cry outside; the ambassadors of peace weep bitterly.
8. The highways are desolate. The traveling man ceases. The covenant is broken. He has despised the cities. He doesn’t respect man.
9. The land mourns and languishes. Lebanon is confounded and withers away. Sharon is like a desert, and Bashan and Carmel are stripped bare.
10. “Now I will arise,” says Yahweh; “Now I will lift myself up. Now I will be exalted.
11. You will conceive chaff. You will give birth to stubble. Your breath is a fire that will devour you.
12. The peoples will be like the burning of lime, like thorns that are cut down and burned in the fire.
13. Hear, you who are far off, what I have done; and, you who are near, acknowledge my might.”
14. The sinners in Zion are afraid. Trembling has seized the godless ones. Who among us can live with the devouring fire? Who among us can live with everlasting burning?
15. He who walks righteously, and speaks blamelessly; He who despises the gain of oppressions, who gestures with his hands, refusing to take a bribe, who stops his ears from hearing of blood, and shuts his eyes from looking at evil—
16. he will dwell on high. His place of defense will be the fortress of rocks. His bread will be supplied. His waters will be sure.
17. Your eyes will see the king in his beauty. They will see a distant land.