Yahweh’s Judgment and Help

• And treacherous one, and no one has dealt treacherously with him![fn]
• When you[fn] destroying, you will be destroyed.
  • When you stop dealing treacherously, one will deal treacherously with you.
  • 2  Be our[fn] arm in the mornings,
  • indeed our salvation in the time of trouble.
  • 3 the sound of tumult, peoples fled; because of your exaltation, nations scattered.
  • 4  as the gathering of the locust,
    • as a swarm of locusts storming on it.
  • 5 is exalted, for he dwells on high; he filled Zion with justice and righteousness,
  • 6  an abundance of salvation, wisdom, and knowledge.

The fear of Yahweh is his treasure.

• 7 in the street; the messengers of peace weep bitterly.
• 8  the traveler on the road ceases.
• One breaks a treaty,
  • he rejects the cities,[fn]
  • he does not hold man in high regard.
  • 9 The land mourns; it languishes. Lebanon feels abashed; it withers.
• Sharon is like the desert,
  • and Bashan and Carmel[fn]
  • 10  “Now I will lift myself up proudly;
  • now I will raise myself.
  • 11  your breath is a fire; it will consume you.
  • 12 the peoples will be burning to lime— they are burned like thorns that have been cut down in the fire.
  • 13 You who are far away, hear what I have done; and you who are near, know my might!”
  • 14  trembling has seized the godless:
• “Who of us can[fn] with devouring fire?
  • Who of us can[fn] with everlasting consuming hearths?”
  • 15 in righteousness and speaks uprightness,
• who rejects the gain of extortion,
  • who[fn] a bribe,
• who stops up his ears[fn] from hearing [fn]
  • and shuts his eyes from seeing evil.
  • 16 on the heights; the fortresses of rocks will be his refuge.
• His food will be given;
  • his waters[fn] will endure.
  • 17 the king in his beauty; they will see a[fn]
  • 18 [fn] will meditate on the terror: “Where is the one who counted?
• Where is the one who weighed out?
  • Where is the one who counted the towers?”
  • 19 the insolent people, the people[fn]
    • whose stammering of tongue[fn]
  • 20 on Zion, the city of our appointed festivals! Your eyes will see Jerusalem,
• an undisturbed settlement,
  • a tent[fn]
• No one will ever pull out its tent pegs,
  • and none of its ropes will be torn in two.
  • 21 will be mighty for us, a place of rivers and[fn]
• a galley ship with[fn] oars[fn] cannot go in it,
  • and a mighty ship cannot pass through it.
  • 22 is our judge; Yahweh is our lawgiver. Yahweh is our king; he is the one who will save us.
  • 23  they do not hold the base of their mast firm,
    • they do not spread out the sail.
• Then the prey of spoil in abundance will be divided;
  • the lame will take plunder.
  • 24  the people who live in it, their iniquity will be taken away.