Words of praise to the LORD
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📚✭O LORD, you are my God.I will exalt you,
I will praise your name,
for you have done wonderful things. ✭
Your counsels of old✭ are
faithfulness and truth.
2 📚For you have made a city✭
a heap of rubble,
a fortified city a ruin,
a citadel of foreigners
to be a city no more;
it will never be rebuilt.
3 📚Therefore the strong people
will glorify you,
the city of the terrible nations
will fear you.
4 📚✭For you have been
a strength to the poor,
a strength to the needy
in his distress,
a refuge✭ from the storm,
a shade from the heat,
when the blast of the terrible
ones was like a storm
against the wall.
5 📚You will subdue the noise
of foreigners,
which is like heat
in a dry place;
like heat by the shadow
of a cloud,
the song of the terrible ones
will be suppressed.
6 📚✭And in this mountain✭ the LORD of hosts
will make for all people a feast
of choice things,
a banquet✭ of aged wines,
of choice pieces full of marrow,
of refined aged wines.
7 📚✭And in this mountain
he will remove the presence
of the covering enveloping all people,
and the veil that is spread
over all nations.
8 📚He will swallow up death✭
in victory✭;
and the Lord God will wipe away
tears✭ from all faces;
and he will take away the rebuke✭
of his people from
the whole earth;
for the LORD has spoken it.
9 📚And it will be said in that day,
“See, this is our God✭.
We have waited for him✭,
and he will save us.
This is the LORD.
We have waited for him;
we will be glad and rejoice✭
in his salvation”.
10 📚For in this mountain the hand
of the LORD will rest,
and Moab✭ will be trampled
down under him,
like straw is trampled down
for the refuse heap.
11 📚And he will spread out
his hands among them,
as the swimmer spreads out
his arms to swim.
And he will bring down
their pride✭ together with
the plunder of their hands.
12 📚✭And he will bring down
the fortification of the high fort
of your walls,
lay it low,
and bring it to the ground,
to the very dust.