“We have a strong city;
    he sets up ^(B)salvation
    as walls and bulwarks.
^2 (C)Open the gates,
    that the righteous nation that keeps faith may enter in.
^3 (D)You keep him in perfect peace
    whose mind is stayed on you,
    because he trusts in you.
⁴ Trust in the Lord forever,
    for the Lord God is an everlasting rock.
^5 (E)For he has humbled
    the inhabitants of the height,
    the lofty city.
He lays it low, lays it low to the ground,
    casts it to the dust.
⁶ The foot tramples it,
    the feet of ^(F)the poor,
    the steps of ^(G)the needy.”

⁷ The path of the righteous is level;
    ^(H)you make level the way of the righteous.
⁸ In the path of your judgments,
    O Lord, we wait for you;
^(I)your name and ^(J)remembrance
    are the desire of our soul.
⁹ My soul yearns for you in the night;
    my spirit within me earnestly seeks you.
^(K)For when your judgments are in the earth,
    the inhabitants of the world learn righteousness.
^10 (L)If favor is shown to the wicked,
    he does not learn righteousness;
in the land of uprightness he deals corruptly
    and does not see the majesty of the Lord.
¹¹ O Lord, ^(M)your hand is lifted up,
    but ^(N)they do not see it.
Let them see your zeal for your people, and be ashamed.
    Let ^(O)the fire for your adversaries consume them.
¹² O Lord, you will ordain ^(P)peace for us,
    for you have indeed done for us all our works.
¹³ O Lord our God,
    ^(Q)other lords besides you have ruled over us,
    ^(R)but your name alone we bring to remembrance.
¹⁴ They are dead, they will not live;
    they are shades, they will not arise;
to that end you have visited them with destruction
    and wiped out all remembrance of them.
^15 (S)But you have increased the nation, O Lord,
    you have increased the nation; you are glorified;
    ^(T)you have enlarged all the borders of the land.

¹⁶ O Lord, ^(U)in distress they sought you;
    they poured out a whispered prayer
    when your discipline was upon them.
^17 (V)Like a pregnant woman
    who writhes and cries out in her pangs
    when she is near to giving birth,
so were we because of you, O Lord;
^{18     (W)}we were pregnant, we writhed,
    but we have given birth to wind.
We have accomplished no deliverance in the earth,
    and the inhabitants of the world have not fallen.
^19 (X)Your dead shall live; their bodies shall rise.
    You who dwell in the dust, awake and sing for joy!
For ^(Y)your dew is a dew of light,
    and the earth will give birth to the dead.

²⁰ Come, my people, enter your chambers,
    and shut your doors behind you;
hide yourselves ^(Z)for a little while
    until the fury has passed by.
^21 (AA)For behold, the Lord is coming out from his place
    to punish the inhabitants of ^(AB)the earth for their iniquity,
and the earth will disclose the blood shed on it,
    and will no more cover its slain.