Dual Panel1LORD, you are my God; I shall exalt you, I shall praise your name, for you have done wonderful things, long-planned, certain and sure.
2You have turned cities into heaps of ruin, fortified towns into rubble; every mansion in the cities is swept away, never to be rebuilt.
3For this many a cruel nation holds you in honour, the cities of ruthless peoples treat you with awe.
4Truly you have been a refuge to the poor, a refuge to the needy in their distress, shelter from tempest, shade from heat. For the blast of the ruthless is like an icy storm
5or a scorching drought; you subdue the roar of the foe, and the song of the ruthless dies away.
6On this mountain the LORD of Hosts will prepare a banquet of rich fare for all the peoples, a banquet of wines well matured, richest fare and well-matured wines strained clear.
7On this mountain the LORD will destroy that veil shrouding all the peoples, the pall thrown over all the nations.
8He will destroy death for ever. Then the Lord GOD will wipe away the tears from every face, and throughout the world remove the indignities from his people. The LORD has spoken.
9On that day the people will say: “See, this is our God; we have waited for him and he will deliver us. This is the LORD for whom we have waited; let us rejoice and exult in his deliverance.”
10For the hand of the LORD will rest on this mountain, but Moab will be trampled where he stands, as straw is trampled in the slush of a midden.
11In it Moab will spread out his hands as a swimmer spreads his hands to swim, but his pride will be sunk with every stroke of his hands.
12The LORD will overthrow the high-walled defences, level them to the ground, and bring them down to the dust.