[1] LORD, you are my God. I will exalt you; I will praise your name, for you have done wonderful things, planned long ago, faithful and sure. [2] You have turned the city into rubble, the fortified town into a ruin, the fortress of foreigners into a city no more, never to be rebuilt. [3] Therefore, strong people will glorify you; the towns of tyrant nations will fear you. [4] You have been a refuge for the poor, a refuge for the needy in distress, a hiding place from the storm, a shade from the heat. When the breath of tyrants is like a winter storm [5] or like heat in the desert, you subdue the roar of foreigners. Like heat shaded by a cloud, the tyrants’ song falls silent. [6] On this mountain, the LORD of heavenly forces will prepare for all peoples a rich feast, a feast of choice wines, of select foods rich in flavor, of choice wines well refined. [7] He will swallow up on this mountain the veil that is veiling all peoples, the shroud enshrouding all nations. [8] He will swallow up death forever. The LORD God will wipe tears from every face; he will remove his people’s disgrace from off the whole earth, for the LORD has spoken. [9] They will say on that day, “Look! This is our God, for whom we have waited—and he has saved us! This is the LORD, for whom we have waited; let’s be glad and rejoice in his salvation!” [10] The LORD’s hand will indeed rest on this mountain. Moab will be trampled down as straw is trampled into manure. [11] When in it they spread out their hands as swimmers spread out their hands to swim, God will lay low their pride, even by the efforts of their hands. [12] The fortified towers of their walls will be thrown down, will be leveled, will be brought down to the earth, to the dust.
