The enemy’s cities have been reduced to permanent ruins; you destroyed their cities; all memory of the enemies has perished.

When the wicked sprout up like grass, and all the evildoers glisten, it is so that they may be annihilated.

But you, O God, will bring them down to the deep Pit. Violent and deceitful people will not live even half a normal lifespan. But as for me, I trust in you.

Come! Witness the exploits of the Lord, who brings devastation to the earth!

You make mankind return to the dust, and say, “Return, O people!”

He lifted me out of the watery pit, out of the slimy mud. He placed my feet on a rock and gave me secure footing.

Hurry and look at the permanent ruins, and all the damage the enemy has done to the temple!

O daughter Babylon, soon to be devastated! How blessed will be the one who repays you for what you dished out to us!

Sinful rebels are totally destroyed; evil men have no future.

You love to use all the words that destroy, and the tongue that deceives.

May their camp become desolate, their tents uninhabited!

How desolate they become in a mere moment! Terrifying judgments make their demise complete!

He sent swarms of biting insects against them, as well as frogs that overran their land.

He destroyed their vines with hail, and their sycamore-fig trees with driving rain.

He rained hail down on their cattle, and hurled lightning bolts down on their livestock.

They were destroyed at Endor; their corpses were like manure on the ground.

May they be humiliated and continually terrified! May they die in shame!

You have broken down all his walls; you have made his strongholds a heap of ruins.

Hurl lightning bolts and scatter them! Shoot your arrows and rout them!

The Lord protects those who love him, but he destroys all the wicked.