Good News Translation GNT
World English Bible WEB
1 Lord, you are my God; I will honor you and praise your name. You have done amazing things; you have faithfully carried out the plans you made long ago.
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Yahweh, you are my God; I will exalt you, I will praise your name; for you have done wonderful things, [even] counsels of old, in faithfulness [and] truth.
2 You have turned cities into ruins and destroyed their fortifications. The palaces which our enemies built are gone forever.
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For you have made of a city a heap, of a fortified city a ruin, a palace of strangers to be no city; it shall never be built.
3 The people of powerful nations will praise you; you will be feared in the cities of cruel nations.
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Therefore shall a strong people glorify you; a city of awesome nations shall fear you.
4 The poor and the helpless have fled to you and have been safe in times of trouble. You give them shelter from storms and shade from the burning heat. Cruel enemies attack like a winter storm,
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For you have been a stronghold to the poor, a stronghold to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shade from the heat, when the blast of the awesome ones is as a storm against the wall.
5 like drought in a dry land. But you, Lord, have silenced our enemies; you silence the shouts of cruel people, as a cloud cools a hot day.
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As the heat in a dry place will you bring down the noise of strangers; as the heat by the shade of a cloud, the song of the awesome ones shall be brought low.
6 Here on Mount Zion the Lord Almighty will prepare a banquet for all the nations of the world - a banquet of the richest food and the finest wine.
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In this mountain will Yahweh of Hosts make to all peoples a feast of fat things, a feast of wines on the lees, of fat things full of marrow, of wines on the lees well refined.
7 Here he will suddenly remove the cloud of sorrow that has been hanging over all the nations.
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He will destroy in this mountain the surface of the covering that covers all peoples, and the veil that is spread over all nations.
8 The Sovereign Lord will destroy death forever! He will wipe away the tears from everyone's eyes and take away the disgrace his people have suffered throughout the world. The Lord himself has spoken.
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He has swallowed up death forever; and the Lord Yahweh will wipe away tears from off all faces; and the reproach of his people will he take away from off all the earth: for Yahweh has spoken it.
9 When it happens, everyone will say, "He is our God! We have put our trust in him, and he has rescued us. He is the Lord! We have put our trust in him, and now we are happy and joyful because he has saved us."
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It shall be said in that day, Behold, this is our God; we have waited for him, and he will save us: this is Yahweh; we have waited for him, we will be glad and rejoice in his salvation.
10 The Lord will protect Mount Zion, but the people of Moab will be trampled down the way straw is trampled in manure.
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For in this mountain will the hand of Yahweh rest; and Moab shall be trodden down in his place, even as straw is trodden down in the water of the dung-hill.
11 They will reach out their hands as if they were trying to swim, but God will humiliate them, and their hands will sink helplessly.
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He shall spread forth his hands in the midst of it, as he who swims spreads forth [his hands] to swim; but [Yahweh] will lay low his pride together with the craft of his hands.
12 He will destroy the fortresses of Moab with their high walls and bring them tumbling down into the dust.
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The high fortress of your walls has he brought down, laid low, and brought to the ground, even to the dust.
Scripture taken from the Good News Translation - Second Edition, Copyright 1992 by American Bible Society. Used by Permission.
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