1Woe to the one ruining, though you are not ruined, and to the one acting treacherously, though they have not acted treacherously toward him. As you finish ruining, you will be ruined; as you cease to act treacherously, they will act treacherously toward you.2O LORD, be gracious to us; we have waited for you. Be their arm every morning; also be our salvation in the time of distress.3From the sound of a crowd the peoples have fled; from your uplifting the nations have been dispersed.4Your spoil will be gathered as the locust gathers, like the rushing of swarming locusts rushing upon it.5The LORD is exalted, because he dwells on high; he has filled Zion with justice and righteousness.6The stability of your times will be an abundance of salvation, wisdom, and knowledge; the fear of the LORD is his treasure.7Look, their hero cries aloud outside; the messengers of peace weep bitterly.8The highways lie desolate; the traveler has ceased; covenant is broken, cities are rejected, and no one regards humanity.9The land mourns and languishes; Lebanon is put to shame and withers; the Lasharon has become like the Arabah, and Bashan and Carmel are shaken.10Now I will arise, says the LORD; now I will exalt myself; now I will lift myself up.11You will conceive chaff; you will give birth to stubble; your breath is a fire that will devour you.12Peoples will become like lime kilns, like cut thorns that are set on fire.13Hear what I have done, you who are far away; acknowledge my might, you who are near.14Sinners in Zion have dreaded; trembling has seized the profane. Who among us can sojourn with consuming fire? Who among us can sojourn with burnings of forever?15He who walks righteously and speaks uprightly, who rejects gain from extortion, who shakes his hands free of bribes, who stops his ears against hearing of bloodshed, and who shuts his eyes against seeing evil.16He will dwell on the heights; his place of defense will be the fortresses of rocks; his bread will be given him; his water will be sure.17Your eyes will behold the king in his beauty; they will see a land that stretches far.18Your heart will muse on terror: Where is the one who counts? Where is the one who weighs? Where is the one who counts the towers?19You will not see the fierce people, a people of unfathomable lips, from hearing a stammering tongue with no understanding.20Behold Zion, the town of our appointed meeting; your eyes will see Jerusalem, a secure pasture, a tent that will not be moved, whose pegs will not be pulled up forever, and all its cords will not be torn.21For there the LORD will be great for us, a place of broad rivers and streams; no fleet with oar will go in it, and no great ship will pass through it.22For the LORD is our judge; the LORD is our lawgiver; the LORD is our king; he will save us.23Your cords have been left loose; the mast is not strengthened, the banner is not spread. Then the prey of spoil in abundance is divided; the lame plunder the spoil.24And no inhabitant will say, I am sick; the people who dwell there will be forgiven their iniquity.