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Adonai 's arm is not too short to save, nor is his ear too dull to hear.

Rather, it is your own crimes that separate you from your God; your sins have hidden his face from you, so that he doesn't hear.

He saw that there was no one, was amazed that no one interceded. Therefore his own arm brought him salvation, and his own righteousness sustained him.

He put on righteousness as his breastplate, salvation as a helmet on his head; he clothed himself with garments of vengeance and wrapped himself in a mantle of zeal.

He repays according to their deeds — fury to his foes, reprisal to his enemies; to the coastlands he will repay their due;

in the west they will fear the name of Adonai , and likewise, in the east, his glory. For he will come like a pent-up stream, impelled by the Spirit of Adonai .

For although darkness covers the earth and thick darkness the peoples; on you Adonai will rise; over you will be seen his glory.

Adonai has sworn by his right hand and by his mighty arm: "Never again will I give your grain to your enemies as food; nor will strangers drink your wine, for which you worked so hard;

Adonai has proclaimed to the end of the earth, "Say to the daughter of Tziyon, ‘Here, your Salvation is coming! Here, his reward is with him, and his recompense is before him.'"

Who is this, coming from Edom, from Botzrah with clothing stained crimson, so magnificently dressed, so stately in his great strength? "It is I, who speak victoriously, I, well able to save."

I will recall the grace of Adonai and the praises of Adonai , because of all that Adonai has granted us and his great goodness toward the house of Isra'el, which he bestowed on them in keeping with his mercy, in keeping with the greatness of his grace.

In all their troubles he was troubled; then the Angel of His Presence saved them; in his love and pity he redeemed them. He had lifted them up and carried them throughout the days of old.

However, they rebelled, they grieved his Holy Spirit; so he became their enemy and himself fought against them.

But then his people remembered the days of old, the days of Moshe: "Where is he who brought them up from the sea with the shepherds of his flock? Where is he who put his Holy Spirit right there among them,

who caused his glorious arm to go at Moshe's right hand? He divided the water ahead of them, to make himself an eternal name;

My chosen will use your name as a curse — ‘May Adonai Elohim strike you dead!' But to his servants he will give another name.

No more will babies die in infancy, no more will an old man die short of his days — he who dies at a hundred will be thought young, and at less than a hundred thought cursed.

Hear the word of Adonai , you who tremble at his word: "Your brothers, who hate you and reject you because of my name, have said: ‘Let Adonai be glorified, so we can see your joy.' But they will be put to shame."

That uproar in the city, that sound from the temple, is the sound of Adonai repaying his foes what they deserve.

Like someone comforted by his mother, I will comfort you; in Yerushalayim you will be comforted."