1O LORD, You are my God;

I will exalt You, I will praise and give thanks to Your name;

For You have done miraculous things,

Plans formed long, long ago, [fulfilled] with perfect faithfulness.

2For You have made a city into a heap [of trash],

A fortified city into a ruin;

A palace of [a]foreigners is no longer a city,

It will never be rebuilt.

3Therefore a strong people will honor You;

Cities of terrible and violent nations will fear You.

4For You have been a stronghold for the helpless,

A stronghold for the poor in his distress,

A shelter from the storm, a shade from the heat;

For the breath of tyrants

Is like a rainstorm against a wall.

5Like heat in a dry land, You will subdue the noise of foreigners [rejoicing over their enemies];

Like heat in the shadow of a cloud, the song of the tyrants is [b]silenced.

6On this mountain [Zion] the LORD of hosts will prepare a lavish banquet for all peoples [to welcome His reign on earth],

A banquet of aged wines--choice pieces [flavored] with marrow,

Of refined, aged wines.

7And on this mountain He will destroy the covering that is [cast] over all peoples,

And the veil [of death] that is woven and spread over all the nations.

8He will swallow up death [and abolish it] for all time.

And the Lord GOD will wipe away tears from all faces,

And He will take away the disgrace of His people from all the earth;

For the LORD has spoken.

9It will be said in that day,

“Indeed, this is our God for whom we have waited that He would save us.

This is the LORD for whom we have waited;

Let us shout for joy and rejoice in His salvation.”

10For the hand of the LORD will rest on this mountain [Zion],

And Moab will be trampled down in his place

As straw is trampled down in the [filthy] water of a manure pile.

11And Moab will spread out his hands in the middle of the filth

As a swimmer spreads out his hands to swim,

But the Lord will humiliate his pride in spite of the [skillful] movements of his hands.

12The high fortifications of your walls He will bring down,

Lay low, and cast to the ground, to the dust.