1. Alas! thou plunderer when, thou, hadst not been plundered, And thou traitor when they had not betrayed thee: When thou hast ceased plundering, thou shalt be plundered, When thou hast left off betraying, they shall betray thee.
2. O Yahweh! shew us favour, -- For thee, have we waited, -- Be thou their arm every morning, Yea our salvation in the time of distress.
3. At the noise of a tumult, the peoples retreated, -- When thou didst lift thyself up, nations were scattered.
4. Then shall your spoil be gathered as the gathering of the caterpillar, -- As the swift running of locusts, is he about to run upon them.
5. Exalted is Yahweh, for he inhabiteth a height, -- He hath filled Zion with justice and righteousness.
6. So shall a wealth of deliverances, wisdom and knowledge, become the stability of thy times, -- the reverence of Yahweh, the game is his treasure.
7. Lo! their heroes, have cried out openly, -- the messengers of peace, in bitterness, continue weeping [they say] :
8. The highways are deserted, The passer-by on the path, hath ceased, -- He hath broken covenant, He hath despised cities, He hath made no account of men.
9. The land mourneth, languisheth, Lebanon, displayeth shame, is withered, -- Sharon, hath become, as the waste plain, And Bashan and Carmel are shaking off their leaves.
10. Now, will I arise, Saith Yahweh, Now, will I lift myself up, Now, will I be exalted!
11. Ye shall conceive chaff Ye shall bring forth stubble, -- Your own breath, like fire, shall devour you.
12. So shall peoples, become, as the burnings of lime, -- As thorns lopped off, with fire, shall they be burned.
13. Hear -- ye that are far off. what I have done, And know -- ye that are near my might:
14. Terror-stricken in Zion, -- are sinners, Shuddering hath seized the impious, -- Who among us can sojourn with a fire that devoureth? Who among us can sojourn with burnings age-abiding?
15. He that walketh righteously, And speaketh uprightly, -- He that refuseth the gain of exactions That shaketh his hands free from holding a bribe, That stoppeth his ear from hearkening to deeds of blood, And shutteth his eyes from giving countenance to wrong,
16. He, the heights, shall inhabit, A stronghold of crags, shall be his refuge, -- His bread, hath been delivered, His waters, have been made sure,
17. Of a king, in his beauty, shall thine eyes have vision: They shall see a land that stretcheth afar.
18. Thy heart, may murmur in terror, -- Where is the scribe? Where -- the receiver? Where -- he that maketh a list of the towers?
19. The fierce people, shalt thou not see, -- The people of too deep a lip to be understood, of too barbarous a tongue for thee to comprehend.
20. Look thou on Zion, the city of our appointed feast, -- Thine own eyes, shall see Jerusalem -- A home of comfort A tent which shall not be packed up -- Whose pins shall not be pulled out, for ever, And none of, whose cords, shall be broken.
21. But, there shall Yahweh be our majestic one, A places of rivers -- streams broad on both hands, Wherein shall go no galley with oars, Neither shall majestic ship traverse it;
22. For, Yahweh is our judge, Yahweh, is our lawgiver, -- Yahweh, is our king, He will save us!
23. Loosed are thy ropes, -- They cannot strengthen the socket of their mast They have not unfurled a sail Now, can be apportioned spoil, in abundance, The lame, have captured prey!
24. Neither shall the inhabitant say. I am sick, -- the people who dwell therein, have been forgiven iniquity.