A song of praise to Yahweh

10 Sing a new song to Yahweh!

Sing to praise him throughout the world!

All you people who sail across the oceans, and all you creatures that live in the oceans,

and all you people who live on islands far away, sing!

11 You people who live in towns in the desert, sing loudly!

You people who live in the Kedar area in the north of Arabia, you rejoice also!

You people in Sela city in Edom, you also should sing joyfully;

shout to praise him from the tops of your mountains!

12 Even people who live on distant islands should honor Yahweh

and sing to praise him.

13 It will be as though Yahweh will march out like [SIM] a mighty soldier;

he will show that he is very angry.

He will shout a battle-cry,

and then he will defeat all his enemies.

14 He will say, “I have remained silent [DOU] for a long time;

I have restrained myself from doing what I need to do.

But now, like [SIM] a woman who is giving birth to a baby, I will cry out and gasp and pant.

15 I will level off the hills and mountains,

and I will cause all the plants and trees to dry up.

I will cause the rivers to become small streams, and little islands will appear in them,

and I will cause all the pools to become dry.

16 My people who have been taken to Babylonia are like [MET] blind people,

but I will lead them along a road on which they have not walked before,

on a road that they have not seen before.

They have felt very helpless, as though they were walking in the darkness,

but I will take away that darkness

and I will make smooth the road that is in front of them.

Those are the things that I will do for them;

I will not abandon them.

17 But those who trust in carved idols,

and say to images, ‘You are our gods,’

will be completely humiliated/disgraced.”