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"Now will I arise," says the LORD . "Now will I be exalted; now will I be lifted up.

You conceive chaff, you give birth to straw; your breath is a fire that consumes you.

The peoples will be burned as if to lime; like cut thornbushes they will be set ablaze."

You who are far away, hear what I have done; you who are near, acknowledge my power!

The sinners in Zion are terrified; trembling grips the godless: "Who of us can dwell with the consuming fire? Who of us can dwell with everlasting burning?"

He who walks righteously and speaks what is right, who rejects gain from extortion and keeps his hand from accepting bribes, who stops his ears against plots of murder and shuts his eyes against contemplating evil-

this is the man who will dwell on the heights, whose refuge will be the mountain fortress. His bread will be supplied, and water will not fail him.