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1 Yahweh, you are my God; I will exalt you, I will praise your name;
for you have done wonderful things, things planned long ago, in perfect faithfulness.
2 For you have made the city a heap, a fortified city, a ruin,
and a fortress of strangers into no city.
3 Therefore a strong people will glorify you; a city of ruthless nations will fear you.
4 For you have been a place of safety for the one who is poor,
a shelter for the one who is needy in his distress—
a shelter from the storm and a shade from the heat.
When the breath of the ruthless was like a storm against a wall,
5 and like heat in a dry land,
you subdued the noise of foreigners,
as the heat is subdued by the shade of a cloud,
so the song of the ruthless ones is answered.
6 On this mountain Yahweh of hosts will make for all peoples a feast of fat things,
of choice wines, of tender meats, a feast on the lees.
7 He will destroy on this mountain the covering over all peoples,
the web woven over all the nations.
8 He will swallow up death forever,
and the Lord Yahweh will wipe away tears from off all faces;
the disgrace of his people he will take away from all the earth, for Yahweh has spoken it.
9 It will be said on that day, “Look, this is our God; we have waited for him, and he will save us.
This is Yahweh; we have waited for him, we will be glad and rejoice in his salvation.”
10 For on this mountain the hand of Yahweh will rest;
and Moab will be trampled down in his place, even as straw is trampled down in a pit filled with manure.
11 They will spread their hands in the midst of it, as a swimmer spreads his hands to swim.
But Yahweh will bring down their pride in spite of the skill of their hands.