1 O LORD, thou [art] my God; I will exalt thee; I will praise thy name for thou hast done wonders, the counsels of old, the truth unchanging.

2 That thou hast turned the city into a heap; the defenced city into [a] ruin: the palace of strangers to not be [a] city; it shall never be rebuilt.

3 Therefore the strong people shall glorify thee; the city of the strong Gentiles shall fear thee.

4 For thou hast been strength to the poor, strength to the needy in his distress, refuge from the storm, shadow from the heat, for the force of the violent [is] as a storm [against] the wall.

5 As the heat in a dry place, thou shalt bring down the pride of the strangers; [even as] with heat [that burns] beneath [a] cloud, thou shalt cause the offshoot of the stout ones to wither.

6 And in this mountain the LORD of the hosts shall make unto all people a feast of fat things, a feast of purified wines, of fat things full of marrow, of purified liquids.

7 And he will undo in this mountain the mask of the covering with which all the peoples are covered and the veil that is extended over all the Gentiles.

8 He will destroy death forever; and the Lord GOD shall wipe away every tear from off all faces; and the rebuke of his people he shall take away from off all the earth: for the LORD has determined [it].

9 And it shall be said in that day, Behold, this [is] our God, whom we have waited for, and he has saved us: this [is] the LORD, whom we have waited for, we will be glad and rejoice in his saving health.

10 For in this mountain the hand of the LORD shall rest, and Moab shall be trodden down under him even as straw is trodden down for the dunghill.

11 And he shall extend his hand in the midst of him as he that swims spreads forth [his hand] to swim: and he shall bring down his pride with the members of his hands

12 and lay siege to the fortress of thy high walls; he shall humble it and bring it down to the ground, [even] to the dust.: