1 Wee jou, verwoester, wat self nie verwoes is nie, en troubreker teen wie nie troueloos gehandel is nie! As jy klaar is met verwoes, sal jy verwoes word; en as jy klaar is met troubreuk, sal hulle troueloos teen jou handel.
2 HERE, wees ons genadig, op U wag ons; wees hulle arm elke môre , ja, ons verlossing in die tyd van benoudheid!
3 Vir die dawergeluid vlug die volke; vanweë u verheffing word die nasies verstrooi.
4 Dan word julle buit weggeskraap soos sprinkane wegskraap; soos sprinkane hardloop, hardloop hulle daarop los.
5 Die HERE is verhewe, want Hy woon in die hoogte; Hy het Sion vervul met reg en geregtigheid.
6 En daar sal bestendigheid van jou tye wees, 'n rykdom van volle verlossing, van wysheid en kennis; die vrees van die HERE sal sy skat wees.
7 Kyk, die helde skreeu daarbuite, die boodskappers van vrede ween bitterlik.
8 Die grootpaaie is verlate; die wat padlangs trek, bly weg. Hy het die verbond verbreek, die stede gering geag, mense nie gereken nie.
9 Die land treur, dit verwelk; die L¡banon staan beskaamd, dit verkwyn; Saron het geword soos 'n woestynvlakte, Basan en Karmel staan sonder blare.
10 Nou sal Ek opstaan, sê die HERE; nou sal Ek My verhef, nou sal Ek My oprig.
11 Julle gaan swanger van strooi, julle sal stoppels baar; julle geblaas is 'n vuur wat julle sal verteer.
12 Dan word die volke 'n kalkbrandery, afgekapte doringbosse wat met vuur verbrand word.
13 Hoor, julle wat ver is, wat Ek gedoen het; en julle wat naby is, erken my mag!
14 Die sondaars in Sion bewe, siddering het die roekelose aangegryp. Hulle sê: Wie van ons kan woon by 'n verterende vuur, wie van ons kan woon by 'n ewige gloed?
15 Hy wat in geregtigheid wandel en spreek wat reg is, wat gewin deur afpersinge versmaad, wat sy hande uitskud om geen omkoopgeskenk aan te gryp nie, wat sy oor toestop om van geen bloedskuld te hoor nie, en sy oë sluit om wat sleg is, nie te sien nie --
16 hy sal op hoogtes woon, rotsvestings is sy burg; sy brood word hom gegee, sy water is gewis.
17 Jou oë sal die Koning in sy skoonheid aanskou, dit sal 'n wyd uitgestrekte land sien.
18 Jou hart sal die deurgestane verskrikking oordink en sê: Waar is hy wat getel het? Waar is hy wat geweeg het? Waar is hy wat die torings opgeskryf het?
19 Jy sal die onbeskaamde volk nie meer sien nie, die volk met duister, onverstaanbare spraak, met onbegryplike hakkeltong.
20 Aanskou Sion, die stad van ons feestelike samekoms! Jou oë sal Jerusalem sien as veilige woonplek, as tent wat nie wegtrek nie, waarvan die penne nooit meer uitgeruk word nie en geeneen van sy toue ooit losgeskeur word nie.
21 Maar daar sal die HERE vir ons heerlik wees; dit sal 'n plek van riviere wees, van breë strome; geen vloot van roeiskepe sal daarop vaar nie, en geen trotse skip sal daaroor gaan nie.
22 Want die HERE is ons Regter, die HERE is ons Aanvoerder, die HERE is ons Koning: Hy sal ons verlos.
23 Jou toue hang slap, hulle hou die voetstuk van hulle mas nie styf nie, hulle ontplooi nie die banier nie; dan word roofbuit verdeel in menigte, selfs die lammes maak buit.
24 En geen inwoner sal sê: Ek is siek nie; aan die mense wat daarin woon, is die skuld vergewe.
1 Ho! you who make waste those who did not make you waste; acting falsely to those who were not false to you. When you have come to an end of wasting, you will be made waste, and after your false acts, they will do the same to you.
2 O Lord, have mercy on us; for we have been waiting for your help: be our strength every morning, our salvation in time of trouble.
3 At the loud noise the peoples have gone in flight; at your coming up the nations have gone in all directions.
4 And the goods taken in war will be got together like the massing of young locusts; men will be rushing on them like the rushing of locusts.
5 The Lord is lifted up; his place is on high: he has made Zion full of righteousness and true religion.
6 And she will have no more fear of change, being full of salvation, wisdom, and knowledge: the fear of the Lord is her wealth.
7 See, the men of war are sorrowing outside the town: those who came looking for peace are weeping bitterly.
8 The highways are waste, no man is journeying there: the agreement is broken, he has made sport of the towns, he has no thought for man.
9 The earth is sorrowing and wasting away; Lebanon is put to shame and has become waste; Sharon is like the Arabah; and in Bashan and Carmel the leaves are falling.
10 Now will I come forward, says the Lord; now will I be lifted up; now will my power be seen.
11 Your designs will be without profit, and their effect will be nothing: you will be burned up by the fire of my breath.
12 And the peoples will be like the burning of chalk: as thorns cut down, which are burned in the fire.
13 Give ear, you who are far off, to what I have done: see my power, you who are near.
14 The sinners in Zion are full of fear; the haters of God are shaking with wonder. Who among us may keep his place before the burning fire? who among us may see the eternal burnings?
15 He whose ways are true, and whose words are upright; he who gives no thought to the profits of false acts, whose hands have not taken rewards, who will have no part in putting men to death, and whose eyes are shut against evil;
16 He will have a place on high: he will be safely shut in by the high rocks: his bread will be given to him; his waters will be certain.
17 Your eyes will see the king in his glory: they will be looking on a far-stretching land.
18 Your heart will give thought to the cause of your fear: where is the scribe, where is he who made a record of the payments, where is he by whom the towers were numbered?
19 Never again will you see the cruel people, a people whose tongue has no sense for you; whose language is strange to you.
20 Let your eyes be resting on Zion, the town of our holy feasts: you will see Jerusalem, a quiet resting-place, a tent which will not be moved, whose tent-pins will never be pulled up, and whose cords will never be broken.
21 But there the Lord will be with us in his glory, ... wide rivers and streams; where no boat will go with blades, and no fair ship will be sailing.
22 For the Lord is our judge, the Lord is our law-giver, the Lord is our king; he will be our saviour.
23 Your cords have become loose; they were not able to make strong the support of their sails, the sail was not stretched out: then the blind will take much property, the feeble-footed will make division of the goods of war.
24 And the men of Zion will not say, I am ill: for its people will have forgiveness for their sin.