12 Then you will say on that day,
“^(A)I will give thanks to You, Lord;
For although ^(B)You were angry with me,
Your anger is turned away,
And You comfort me.
² Behold, ^(C)God is my salvation,
I will ^(D)trust and not be afraid;
For ^(E)the Lord God is my strength and song,
And He has become my salvation.”
³ Therefore you will joyously ^(F)draw water
From the ^(G)springs of salvation.
⁴ And on that day you will ^(H)say,
“^(I)Give thanks to the Lord, call on His name.
^(J)Make known His deeds among the peoples;
^[a]Make them remember that His name is exalted.”
^5 (K)Praise the Lord in song, for He has done ^[b]glorious things;
Let this be known throughout the earth.
^6 (L)Rejoice and shout for joy, you inhabitant of Zion,
For ^(M)great in your midst is the Holy One of Israel.

^2 (Q)Lift up a flag on the ^[c](R)bare hill,
Raise your voice to them,
^(S)Wave the hand that they may ^(T)enter the doors of the nobles.
³ I have commanded My consecrated ones,
I have also called for My ^(U)warriors
Who boast in My eminence,
To execute My anger.
⁴ A ^(V)sound of a roar on the mountains,
Like that of many people!
A sound of an uproar of kingdoms,
Of nations gathered together!
The Lord of armies is mustering the army for battle.
⁵ They are coming from a distant country,
From the ^[d](W)farthest horizons,
The Lord and the weapons of His ^(X)indignation,
To ^(Y)destroy the whole land.

⁶ Wail, for the ^(Z)day of the Lord is near!
It will come as ^(AA)destruction from ^[e]the Almighty.
⁷ Therefore ^(AB)all hands will fall limp,
And every human ^(AC)heart will melt.
⁸ They will be ^(AD)terrified,
Pains and anguish will take hold of them;
They will ^(AE)writhe like a woman in labor,
They will look at one another in astonishment,
Their faces aflame.
⁹ Behold, ^(AF)the day of the Lord is coming,
Cruel, with fury and burning anger,
To make the land a desolation;
And He will exterminate its sinners from it.
¹⁰ For the ^(AG)stars of heaven and their constellations
Will not flash their light;
The ^(AH)sun will be dark when it rises
And the moon will not shed its light.
¹¹ So I will ^(AI)punish the world for its evil
And the ^(AJ)wicked for their wrongdoing;
I will also put an end to the ^(AK)audacity of the proud
And humiliate the ^(AL)arrogance of the ^[f](AM)tyrants.
¹² I will make mortal man ^(AN)scarcer than pure gold
And mankind than the ^(AO)gold of Ophir.
¹³ Therefore I will make the ^(AP)heavens tremble,
And ^(AQ)the earth will be shaken from its place
At the fury of the Lord of armies
In ^(AR)the day of His burning anger.
¹⁴ And it will be that, like a hunted gazelle,
Or like ^(AS)sheep with no one to gather them,
Each of them will turn to his own people,
And each of them will flee to his own land.
¹⁵ Anyone who is found will be ^(AT)thrust through,
And anyone who is captured will fall by the sword.
¹⁶ Their ^(AU)little ones also will be dashed to pieces
Before their eyes;
Their houses will be plundered
And their wives raped.

¹⁷ Behold, I am going to ^(AV)stir up the Medes against them,
Who will not value silver or ^(AW)take pleasure in gold.
¹⁸ And their bows will ^[g]mow down the ^(AX)young men,
They will not even have compassion on the fruit of the womb,
Nor will their ^(AY)eye pity ^[h]children.
¹⁹ And ^(AZ)Babylon, the ^(BA)beauty of kingdoms, the glory of the Chaldeans’ pride,
Will be as when God ^(BB)overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah.
²⁰ It will ^(BC)never be inhabited or lived in from generation to generation;
Nor will the ^(BD)Arab pitch his tent there,
Nor will shepherds allow their flocks to lie down there.
²¹ But ^(BE)desert creatures will lie down there,
And their houses will be full of ^[i]owls;
Ostriches also will live there, and ^[j]shaggy goats will frolic there.
^22 [k]Hyenas will howl in their fortified towers
And jackals in their luxurious ^(BF)palaces.
Her fateful time also ^[l]will soon come,
And her days will not be prolonged.

“How ^(BN)the oppressor has ceased,
And how the ^[o]onslaught has ceased!
⁵ The Lord has broken the staff of the wicked,
The scepter of rulers,
^6 (BO)Which used to strike the peoples in fury with unceasing strokes,
Which ^[p]subdued the nations in anger with unrestrained persecution.
⁷ The whole earth is at rest and is quiet;
They ^(BP)break forth into shouts of joy.
⁸ Even the ^(BQ)juniper trees rejoice over you, and the cedars of Lebanon, saying,
‘Since you have been laid low, no tree cutter comes up against us.’
^9 (BR)Sheol below is excited about you, to meet you when you come;
It stirs the ^[q]spirits of the dead for you, all the ^[r]leaders of the earth;
It raises all the kings of the nations from their thrones.
^10 (BS)They will all respond and say to you,
‘Even you have become weak as we,
You have become like us.
¹¹ Your ^(BT)pride and the music of your harps
Have been brought down to Sheol;
Maggots are spread out as your bed beneath you
And worms are your covering.’
¹² How you have ^(BU)fallen from heaven,
You ^[s](BV)star of the morning, son of the dawn!
You have been cut down to the earth,
You who defeated the nations!
¹³ But you said in your heart,
‘I will ^(BW)ascend to heaven;
I will ^(BX)raise my throne above the stars of God,
And I will sit on the mount of assembly
In the recesses of the north.
¹⁴ I will ascend above the heights of the clouds;
^(BY)I will make myself like the Most High.’
¹⁵ Nevertheless you ^(BZ)will be brought down to Sheol,
To the recesses of the pit.
¹⁶ Those who see you will stare at you,
They will ^[t]closely examine you, saying,
‘Is this the man who made the earth tremble,
Who shook kingdoms,
¹⁷ Who made the world like a ^(CA)wilderness
And overthrew its cities,
Who ^(CB)did not ^[u]allow his prisoners to go home?’
¹⁸ All the kings of the nations lie in glory,
Each in his own ^[v]tomb.
¹⁹ But you have been ^(CC)hurled out of your tomb
Like ^[w]a rejected branch,
^[x]Clothed with those killed who have been pierced with a sword,
Who go down to the stones of the ^(CD)pit
Like a ^(CE)trampled corpse.
²⁰ You will not be united with them in burial,
Because you have ruined your country,
You have killed your people.
May the ^(CF)descendants of evildoers never be mentioned.
²¹ Prepare a place of slaughter for his sons
Because of the ^(CG)wrongdoing of their fathers.
They must not arise and take possession of the earth,
And fill the surface of the world with cities.”

²⁹ “Do not rejoice, ^(CT)Philistia, all of you,
Because the rod that ^(CU)struck you is broken;
For from the serpent’s root a ^(CV)viper will come out,
And its fruit will be a ^(CW)winged serpent.
^30 [z]Those who are most ^(CX)helpless will eat,
And the poor will lie down in security;
I will kill your root with ^(CY)famine,
And it will kill your survivors.
³¹ Wail, you ^(CZ)gate; cry, you city;
^[aa]Melt away, ^(DA)Philistia, all of you!
For smoke comes from the ^(DB)north,
And ^(DC)there is no straggler in his ranks.
³² What answer will one give the ^(DD)messengers of the nation?
That ^(DE)the Lord has founded Zion,
And ^(DF)the poor of His people will take refuge in it.”

Certainly in a night ^(DH)Ar of Moab is devastated and ruined;
Certainly in a night Kir of Moab is devastated and ruined.
^2 [ab]The people have gone up to the ^[ac]temple and to ^(DI)Dibon, to the high places to weep.
Moab wails over Nebo and Medeba;
Everyone’s head is ^(DJ)bald and every beard is cut off.
³ In their streets they have put on ^(DK)sackcloth;
^(DL)On their housetops and in their public squares
Everyone is wailing, ^[ad](DM)overcome with weeping.
^4 (DN)Heshbon and Elealeh also cry out,
Their voice is heard all the way to Jahaz;
Therefore the ^[ae]armed men of Moab cry aloud;
His soul trembles within him.
⁵ My heart cries out for Moab;
His fugitives are as far as ^(DO)Zoar and Eglath-shelishiyah,
For they go up the ^(DP)ascent of Luhith weeping;
Indeed, on the road to Horonaim they raise a cry of distress ^(DQ)over their collapse.
⁶ For the ^(DR)waters of Nimrim are ^[af]desolate.
Indeed, the grass is withered, the new growth has died,
There is ^(DS)no greenery.
⁷ Therefore the ^(DT)abundance which they have acquired and stored up,
They carry it off over the brook of ^[ag]Arabim.
⁸ For the cry of distress has gone around the territory of Moab,
Its wailing goes as far as Eglaim and its howling to Beer-elim.
⁹ For the waters of Dimon are full of ^[ah]blood;
I will certainly bring added woes upon Dimon,
A ^(DU)lion upon the fugitives of Moab and the remnant of the land.