¹Woe to you, O destroyer never destroyed, ²O LORD, be gracious to us! ³The peoples flee the thunder of Your voice; ⁴Your spoil, O nations, is gathered as by locusts; ⁵The LORD is exalted, for He dwells on high; ⁶He will be the sure foundation for your times, ⁷Behold, their valiant ones cry aloud in the streets; ⁸The highways are deserted; ⁹The land mourns and languishes; ¹⁰“Now I will arise,” says the LORD. ¹¹You conceive chaff; you give birth to stubble. ¹²The peoples will be burned to ashes, ¹³You who are far off, hear what I have done; ¹⁴The sinners in Zion are afraid; ¹⁵He who walks righteously ¹⁶he will dwell on the heights; ¹⁷Your eyes will see the King in His beauty ¹⁸Your mind will ponder the former terror: ¹⁹You will no longer see the insolent, ²⁰Look upon Zion, ²¹But there the Majestic One, our LORD, ²²For the LORD is our Judge, ²³Your ropes are slack; ²⁴And no resident of Zion will say, “I am sick.”