1 Woe to the destroyer, and you have not been destroyed; and the betrayer, and they have not betrayed you. When you stop destroying, you shall be destroyed. When you stop betraying, they shall betray you.2 O Jehovah, be gracious to us; we have waited for You. Be their arm every morning; our salvation also in the time of trouble.3 At the sound of the tumult the people have fled; at the lifting up of Yourself the nations have been scattered.4 And your spoils shall be gathered as the locust gathers; as the running to and fro of locusts he shall run upon them.5 Jehovah is exalted, for He dwells on high. He has filled Zion with justice and righteousness.6 Wisdom and knowledge shall be the steadfastness of your times, and the strength of salvation; the fear of Jehovah is His treasure.7 Behold, their mighty ones shall cry outside; the messengers of peace shall weep bitterly.8 The highways lie waste, the traveler ceases. He has broken the covenant. He has despised the cities. He has had regard for no man.9 The earth mourns and has grown feeble. Lebanon is ashamed and withers; Sharon is like a wilderness; Bashan and Carmel are shaken out like empty fruit trees.10 Now I will arise, says Jehovah; now I will be exalted; now I will lift up Myself.11 You shall conceive chaff, you shall bring forth stubble; your breath, like fire, shall devour you.12 And the people shall be like the burnings of lime; like thorns cut up they shall be burned in the fire.13 You who are far off, hear what I have done; and you who are near, perceive and know My might.14 The sinners in Zion are afraid; trembling has taken hold of the hypocrites. Who among us shall dwell with the devouring fire? Who among us shall dwell with everlasting burnings?15 He who walks righteously and speaks with equity; he who despises the gain of oppressions, who shakes his hands free from holding bribes, who stops his ear from hearing of blood, and shuts his eyes from seeing evil;16 he shall dwell on high; his refuge shall be the strongholds of rocks; bread shall be given him; his waters shall be sure.17 Your eyes shall see the King in His beauty; they shall behold the land that is very far off.18 Your heart shall muse on terror. Where is the scribe? Where is the one who weighs? Where is the one who counts the towers?19 You shall not see a fierce people, a people of unintelligible speech that you cannot perceive; of a stammering tongue that you cannot understand.20 Look upon Zion, the city of our appointed meetings; your eyes shall see Jerusalem, a quiet home, a tent that shall not be taken down; not one of its stakes shall ever be removed, nor shall any of its cords be broken.21 But there the glorious Jehovah will be to us a place of broad rivers and streams, in which no galley with oars shall go, nor shall majestic ships pass by.22 For Jehovah is our Judge, Jehovah is our Lawgiver, Jehovah is our King; He will save us.23 Your ropes are loosened, they could not hold the base of the mast, they could not spread the sail. Then the prey of a great plunder is divided; the lame take the spoils.24 And the inhabitant shall not say, I am sick; the iniquity of the people who dwell there shall be taken away.

1 Wo to thee, that robbest; whether and thou schalt not be robbid? and that dispisist, whether and thou schalt not be dispisid? Whanne thou hast endid robbyng, thou schalt be robbid; and whanne thou maad weri ceessist to dispise, thou schalt be dispisid.2 Lord, haue thou merci on vs, for we abiden thee; be thou oure arm in the morewtid, and oure helthe in the tyme of tribulacioun.3 Puplis fledden fro the vois of the aungel; hethene men ben scaterid of thin enhaunsyng.4 And youre spuylis schulen be gaderid togidere, as a bruke is gaderid togidere, as whanne dichis ben ful therof.5 The Lord is magnefied, for he dwellide an hiy, he fillid Sion with doom and riytfulnesse.6 And feith schal be in thi tymes; the ritchessis of helthe is wisdom and kunnynge; the drede of the Lord, thilke is the tresour of hym.7 Lo! seeris withoutenforth schulen crye, aungels of pees schulen wepe bittirli.8 Weies ben distried, a goere bi the path ceesside; the couenaunt is maad voide, he castide doun citees, he arettide not men.9 The lond morenyde, and was sijk; the Liban was schent, and was foul; and Saron is maad as desert, and Basan is schakun, and Carmele.10 Now Y schal ryse, seith the Lord, now I schal be enhaunsid, and now I schal be reisid vp.11 Ye schulen conseyue heete, ye schulen brynge forth stobil; youre spirit as fier schal deuoure you.12 And puplis schulen be as aischis of the brennyng; thornes gaderid togidere schulen be brent in fier.13 Ye that ben fer, here what thingis Y haue do; and, ye neiyboris, knowe my strengthe.14 Synneris ben al to-brokun in Syon, tremblyng weldide ipocritis; who of you mai dwelle with fier deuowringe? who of you schal dwelle with euerlastinge brennyngis?15 He that goith in riytfulnessis, and spekith treuthe; he that castith awei aueryce of fals calenge, and schakith awei his hondis fro al yifte; he that stoppith his eeris, that he heere not blood, and closith his iyen, that he se not yuel.16 This man schal dwelle in hiy thingis, the strengthis of stoonys ben the hiynesse of hym; breed is youun to hym, hise watris ben feithful.17 Thei schulen se the kyng in his fairnesse; the iyen of hym schulen biholde the londe fro fer.18 Eliachym, thin herte schal bithenke drede; where is the lettrid man? Where is he that weieth the wordis of the lawe? where is the techere of litle children?19 Thou schalt not se a puple vnwijs, a puple of hiy word, so that thou maist not vndurstonde the fair speking of his tunge, in which puple is no wisdom.20 Biholde thou Sion, the citee of youre solempnyte; thin iyen schulen se Jerusalem, a riche citee, a tabernacle that mai not be borun ouer, nether the nailis therof schulen be takun awei withouten ende; and alle the cordis therof schulen not be brokun.21 For oneli the worschipful doere oure Lord God is there; the place of floodis is strondis ful large and opyn; the schip of roweris schal not entre bi it, nethir a greet schip schal passe ouer it.22 For whi the Lord is oure iuge, the Lord is oure lawe yyuere, the Lord is oure kyng; he schal saue vs.23 Thi roopis ben slakid, but tho schulen not auaile; thi mast schal be so, that thou mow not alarge a signe. Thanne the spuylis of many preyes schulen be departid, crokid men schulen rauysche raueyn.24 And a neiybore schal seie, Y was not sijk; the puple that dwellith in that Jerusalem, wickidnesse schal be takun awei fro it.