New English [1970], THE NEW ENGLISH BIBLE (OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS; CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS, CAMBRIDGE) [word count] [B16000].
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1 Ah! you destroyer, yourself undestroyed,
betrayer still unbetrayed,
when you cease to destroy you will be destroyed,
after all your note betrayals, you will be betrayed yourself.
2 O Lord, show us thy favour; we hope in thee.
Uphold us note every morning,
save us when troubles come.
3 At the roar of the thunder the peoples flee,
at thy rumbling note nations are scattered;
4 their note spoil is swept up as if young locusts had swept it,
like a swarm of locusts men swarm upon it.
5 The Lord is supreme, for he dwells on high;
if you fill Zion with justice and with righteousness,
6 then he will be the mainstay of the age: note
wisdom and knowledge are the assurance of salvation;
the fear of the Lord is her note treasure.
7 Hark, how the valiant cry aloud for help,
and those sent to sue for peace weep bitterly!
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Assyria and Judah
8 The highways are deserted, no travellers tread the roads.
Covenants are broken, treaties note are flouted;
man is of no account.
9 The land is parched and wilting,
Lebanon is eaten away and crumbling;
Sharon has become a desert,
Bashan and Carmel are stripped bare.
10 Now, says the Lord, I will rise up.
Now I will exalt myself, now lift myself up.
11 What you conceive and bring to birth is chaff and stubble;
a wind like fire shall devour you.
12 Whole nations shall be heaps of white ash,
or like thorns cut down and set on fire.
13 You who dwell far away, hear what I have done;
acknowledge my might, you who are near.
14 In Zion sinners quake with terror,
the godless are seized with trembling and ask,
Can any of us live with a devouring fire?
Can any live in endless burning?
15 The man who lives an upright life and speaks the truth,
who scorns to enrich himself by extortion,
who snaps his fingers at a bribe,
who stops his ears to hear nothing of bloodshed,
who closes his eyes to the sight of evil—
16 that is the man who shall dwell on the heights,
his refuge a fastness in the cliffs,
his bread secure and his water never failing.
17 Your eyes shall see a king in his splendour
and will look upon a land of far distances.
18 You will call to mind what once you feared:
‘Where then is he that counted, where is he that weighed,
where is he that counted the treasures?’
19 You will no longer see that barbarous people,
that people whose speech was so hard to catch,
whose stuttering speech you could not understand.
20 Look upon Zion, city of our solemn feasts,
let your eyes rest on Jerusalem,
a land of comfort, a tent that shall never be shifted,
whose pegs shall never be pulled up,
not one of its ropes cast loose.
21 There we have the Lord's majesty; note
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Assyria and Judah
it will be a place note of rivers and broad streams;
but note no galleys shall be rowed there,
no stately ship sail by.
22 For the Lord our judge, the Lord our law-giver,
the Lord our king—he himself will save us.
23 [Men may say, Your rigging is slack;
it will not hold the mast firm in its socket,
nor can the sails be spread.]
Then the blind note man shall have a full share of the spoil
and the lame shall take part in the pillage;
24 no man who dwells there shall say, ‘I am sick’;
and the sins of the people who live there shall be pardoned.
New English [1970], THE NEW ENGLISH BIBLE (OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS; CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS, CAMBRIDGE) [word count] [B16000].
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