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The enemy runs at the sound of your voice.
    When you stand up, the nations flee!
Just as caterpillars and locusts strip the fields and vines,
    so the fallen army of Assyria will be stripped!

Though the Lord is very great and lives in heaven,
    he will make Jerusalem[a] his home of justice and righteousness.

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Footnotes

  1. 33:5 Hebrew Zion; also in 33:14.

At the uproar of your army,(A) the peoples flee;(B)
    when you rise up,(C) the nations scatter.
Your plunder,(D) O nations, is harvested(E) as by young locusts;(F)
    like a swarm of locusts people pounce on it.

The Lord is exalted,(G) for he dwells on high;(H)
    he will fill Zion with his justice(I) and righteousness.(J)

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