Yahweh Will Swallow Up Death
O Yahweh, You are amy God;
I will exalt You, I will give thanks to Your name;
For You have bworked wonders,
cCounsels formed long ago, with perfect faithfulness.
2 For You have made a city into a aheap,
A bfortified town into a ruin;
A cpalace of strangers is a city no more,
It will never be rebuilt.
3 Therefore a strong people will aglorify You;
bTowns of ruthless nations will fear You.
4 For You have been a astrong defense for the poor,
A strong defense for the needy in his distress,
A brefuge from the storm, a shade from the heat;
For the breath of the cruthless
Is like a rain storm against a wall.
5 Like heat in a dry land, You subdue the arumbling of strangers;
Like heat by the shadow of a cloud, the song of the ruthless is silenced.
6 aAnd Yahweh of hosts will prepare a lavish banquet for ball peoples on this mountain;
A banquet of aged wine, choice pieces with marrow,
And refined, aged wine.
7 And on this mountain He will swallow up the acovering which is over all peoples,
Even the veil which is stretched over all nations.
8 He will aswallow up death for all time,
And Lord Yahweh will bwipe tears away from all faces,
And He will remove the creproach of His people from all the earth;
For Yahweh has spoken.
9 And it will be said in that day,
“Behold, athis is our God in whom we have bhoped that cHe would save us.
This is Yahweh in whom we have hoped;
dLet us rejoice and be glad in His salvation.”
10 For the hand of Yahweh will rest on this mountain,
And aMoab will be trodden down in his place
As straw is trodden down in the water of a manure pile.
11 And he will aspread out his hands in the middle of it
As a swimmer spreads out his hands to swim,
But Yahweh will blay low his lofty pride together with the trickery of his hands.
12 The aunassailable fortifications of your walls He will bring down,
Lay low, and cast to the ground, even to the dust.