1. O LORD, thou {cf15I art} my God; I will exalt thee, I will praise thy name; for thou hast done wonderful {cf15I things; thy} counsels of old {cf15I are} faithfulness {cf15I and} truth.
2. For thou hast made of a city an heap; {cf15I of} a defenced city a ruin: a palace of strangers to be no city; it shall never be built.
3. Therefore shall the strong people glorify thee, the city of the terrible nations shall fear thee.
4. For thou hast been a strength to the poor, a strength to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shadow from the heat, when the blast of the terrible ones {cf15I is} as a storm {cf15I against} the wall.
5. Thou shalt bring down the noise of strangers, as the heat in a dry place; {cf15I even} the heat with the shadow of a cloud: the branch of the terrible ones shall be brought low.
6. And in this mountain shall the LORD of hosts make unto all people a feast of fat things, a feast of wines on the lees, of fat things full of marrow, of wines on the lees well refined.
7. And he will destroy in this mountain the face of the covering cast over all people, and the vail that is spread over all nations.
8. He will swallow up death in victory; and the Lord GOD will wipe away tears from off all faces; and the rebuke of his people shall he take away from off all the earth: for the LORD hath spoken {cf15I it}.
9. And it shall be said in that day, Lo, this {cf15I is} our God; we have waited for him, and he will save us: this {cf15I is} the LORD; we have waited for him, we will be glad and rejoice in his salvation.
10. For in this mountain shall the hand of the LORD rest, and Moab shall be trodden down under him, even as straw is trodden down for the dunghill.
11. And he shall spread forth his hands in the midst of them, as he that swimmeth spreadeth forth {cf15I his hands} to swim: and he shall bring down their pride together with the spoils of their hands.
12. And the fortress of the high fort of thy walls shall he bring down, lay low, {cf15I and} bring to the ground, {cf15I even} to the dust.