Dual Panel1The destroyer <07703> is as good as dead, you <0859> who have not <03808> been destroyed <07703>! The deceitful <0898> one is as good as dead, the one whom others have not <03808> deceived <0898>! When you are through <08552> destroying <07703>, you will be destroyed <07703>; when you finish <05239> deceiving <0898>, others will deceive <0898> you!
2Lord <03068>, be merciful <02603> to us! We wait <06960> for you. Give us strength <02220> each morning <01242>! Deliver <03444> us when <06256> distress <06869> comes.
3The nations <05971> run away <05074> when they hear a loud <01995> noise <06963>; the nations <01471> scatter <05310> when you spring <07427> into action!
4Your plunder <07998> disappears <0622> as if locusts <02625> were eating <0625> it; they swarm over <04944> it like locusts <01357>!
5The Lord <03068> is exalted <07682>, indeed <03588>, he lives <07931> in heaven <04791>; he fills <04390> Zion <06726> with justice <04941> and fairness <06666>.
6He is your constant source of stability <0530>; he abundantly <02633> provides safety <03444> and great wisdom <01847> <02451>; he gives all this <0214> to those who fear <03374> him.
7Look <02005>, ambassadors <0691> cry out <06817> in the streets <02351>; messengers <04397> sent to make peace <07965> weep <01058> bitterly <04751>.
8Highways <04546> are empty <08074>, there are no <07673> travelers <0734> <05674>. Treaties <01285> are broken <06565>, witnesses <05892> are despised <03988>, human <0376> life is treated <02803> with disrespect <03808>.
9The land <0776> dries up <056> and withers away <0535>; the forest of Lebanon <03844> shrivels up <02659> and decays <07060>. Sharon <08289> is like <01961> the desert <06160>; Bashan <01316> and Carmel <03760> are parched <05287>.
10“Now <06258> I will rise up <06965>,” says <0559> the Lord <03068>. “Now <06258> I will exalt <07311> myself; now <06258> I will magnify <05375> myself.
11You conceive <02029> straw <02842>, you give birth <03205> to chaff <07179>; your breath <07307> is a fire <0784> that destroys <0398> you.
12The nations <05971> will be <01961> burned <04955> to ashes <07875>; like thorn bushes <06975> that have been cut down <03683>, they will be set <03341> on fire <0784>.
13You who are far away <07350>, listen <08085> to what <0834> I have done <06213>! You who are close <07138> by, recognize <03045> my strength <01369>!”
14Sinners <02400> are afraid <06342> in Zion <06726>; panic <07461> grips <0270> the godless <02611>. They say, ‘Who <04310> among us can coexist <01481> with destructive <0398> fire <0784>? Who <04310> among us can coexist <01481> with unquenchable <05769> fire <04168>?’
15The one who lives <01980> uprightly <06666> and speaks <01696> honestly <04339>; the one who refuses <03988> to profit <01215> from oppressive <04642> measures and rejects <08551> <03709> <05287> a bribe <07810>; the one who does not <0331> plot <0241> violent crimes <01818> and does not <06105> seek <07200> <05869> to harm <07451> others–
16This is the person <01931> who will live <07931> in a secure place <04791>; he will find safety <04869> in the rocky <05553>, mountain strongholds <04679>; he will have <05414> food <03899> and a constant <0539> supply of water <04325>.
17You will see <02372> a king <04428> in his splendor <03308>; you will see <07200> a wide <04801> land <0776>.
18Your mind <03820> will recall <01897> the terror <0367> you experienced, and you will ask yourselves, “Where <0346> is the scribe <05608>? Where <0346> is the one who weighs <08254> the money? Where <0346> is the one who counts <05608> the towers <04026>?”
19You will no <03808> longer see <07200> a defiant <03267> people <05971> whose language <08193> you do not comprehend <08085> <06012>, whose derisive <03932> speech <03956> you do not <0369> understand <0998>.
20Look at <02372> Zion <06726>, the city <07151> where we hold religious festivals <04150>! You <05869> will see <07200> Jerusalem <03389>, a peaceful <07600> settlement <05116>, a tent <0168> that stays put <06813> <01077>; its stakes <03489> will never <05331> <01077> be pulled up <05265>; none <01077> of its ropes <02256> will snap <05423> in two.
21Instead <0518> the Lord <03068> will rule there <08033> as our mighty <0117> king. Rivers <05104> and wide <03027> <07342> streams <02975> will flow through it <04725>; no <01077> war <07885> galley <0590> will enter <01980>; no <03808> large <0117> ships <06716> will sail through <05674>.
22For <03588> the Lord <03068>, our ruler <08199>, the Lord <03068>, our commander <02710>, the Lord <03068>, our king <04428>– he <01931> will deliver <03467> us.
23Though at this time your ropes <02256> are slack <05203>, the mast <08650> is not <01077> secured <02388>, and the sail <05251> is not <01077> unfurled <06566>, at that time <0227> you will divide up <02505> a great quantity <04766> of loot <07998> <05706>; even the lame <06455> will drag off <0962> plunder <0957>.
24No <01077> resident <07934> of Zion will say <0559>, “I am ill <02470>”; the people <05971> who live <03427> there will have their sin <05771> forgiven <05375>.