<p class="poetry">You keep completely safe the people who maintain their faith,p> <p class="poetry">for they trust in you.<n id="1" />p>

<p class="poetry">He said to me, &#8220;You are my servant,p> <p class="poetry">Israel, through whom I will reveal my splendor.&#8221;<n id="1" />p>

<p class="poetry">O <sc>Lordsc>, our God,p> <p class="poetry">masters other than you have ruled us,p> <p class="poetry">but we praise your name alone.p>

<p class="poetry">Look, all who were angry at you will be ashamed and humiliated;p> <p class="poetry">your adversaries<n id="1" /> will be reduced to nothing<n id="2" /> and perish.p>

When the <sc>Lordsc> gives you relief from your suffering and anxiety,<n id="1" /> and from the hard labor which you were made to perform,

<p class="poetry">Please let the Moabite fugitives live<n id="1" /> among you.p> <p class="poetry">Hide them<n id="2" /> from the destroyer!&#8221;p> <p class="poetry">Certainly<n id="3" /> the one who applies pressure will cease,<n id="4" />p> <p class="poetry">the destroyer will come to an end,p> <p class="poetry">those who trample will disappear<n id="5" /> from the earth.p>

<t /><p class="poetry">The destroyer is as good as dead,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">you who have not been destroyed!p> <p class="poetry">The deceitful one is as good as dead,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">the one whom others have not deceived!p> <p class="poetry">When you are through destroying, you will be destroyed;p> <p class="poetry">when you finish<n id="3" /> deceiving, others will deceive you!p>

<p class="poetry">When you pass through the waters, I am with you;p> <p class="poetry">when you pass<n id="1" /> through the streams, they will not overwhelm you.p> <p class="poetry">When you walk through the fire, you will not be burned;p> <p class="poetry">the flames will not harm<n id="2" /> you.p>

<p class="poetry">No one invokes<n id="1" /> your name,p> <p class="poetry">or makes an effort<n id="2" /> to take hold of you.p> <p class="poetry">For you have rejected us<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">and handed us over to our own sins.<n id="4" />p>

<t /><p class="poetry">This is what the <sc>Lordsc> says:p> <p class="poetry">&#8220;The profit<n id="1" /> of Egypt and the revenue<n id="2" /> of Ethiopia,p> <p class="poetry">along with the Sabeans, those tall men,p> <p class="poetry">will be brought to you<n id="3" /> and become yours.p> <p class="poetry">They will walk behind you, coming along in chains.<n id="4" />p> <p class="poetry">They will bow down to youp> <p class="poetry">and pray to you:<n id="5" />p> <p class="poetry">&#8216;Truly God is with<n id="6" /> you; he has no peer;<n id="7" />p> <p class="poetry">there is no other God!&#8217;&#8221;p>

<p class="poetry">Wake up! Wake up!p> <p class="poetry">Clothe yourself with strength, O Zion!p> <p class="poetry">Put on your beautiful clothes,p> <p class="poetry">O Jerusalem,<n id="1" /> holy city!p> <p class="poetry">For uncircumcised and unclean pagansp> <p class="poetry">will no longer invade you.p>

<p class="poetry">&#8220;As far as I am concerned, this is like in Noah&#8217;s time,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">when I vowed that the waters of Noah&#8217;s flood<n id="2" /> would never again cover the earth.p> <p class="poetry">In the same way I have vowed that I will not be angry at you or shout at you.p>

<p class="poetry">You will no longer be called, &#8220;Abandoned,&#8221;p> <p class="poetry">and your land will no longer be called &#8220;Desolate.&#8221;p> <p class="poetry">Indeed,<n id="1" /> you will be called &#8220;My Delight is in Her,&#8221;<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">and your land &#8220;Married.&#8221;<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">For the <sc>Lordsc> will take delight in you,p> <p class="poetry">and your land will be married to him.<n id="4" />p>