1Woe to you who destroy, but you weren’t destroyed,
2Yahweh, be gracious to us. We have waited for you.
3At the noise of the thunder, the peoples have fled.
4Your plunder will be gathered as the caterpillar gathers.
5Yahweh is exalted, for he dwells on high.
6There will be stability in your times, abundance of salvation, wisdom, and knowledge.
7Behold, their valiant ones cry outside;
8The highways are desolate.
9The land mourns and languishes.
10“Now I will arise,” says Yahweh.
11You will conceive chaff.
12The peoples will be like the burning of lime,
13Hear, you who are far off, what I have done;
14The sinners in Zion are afraid.
15He who walks righteously
16he will dwell on high.
17Your eyes will see the king in his beauty.
18Your heart will meditate on the terror.
19You will no longer see the fierce people,
20Look at Zion, the city of our appointed festivals.
21But there Yahweh will be with us in majesty,
22For Yahweh is our judge.
23Your rigging is untied.
24The inhabitant won’t say, “I am sick.”