2. Lord, be kind to us. We have waited for your help. Give us strength every morning. Save us when we are in trouble.
3. Your powerful voice makes people run away in fear. Your greatness causes the nations to run away.
4. You people stole things in war. Those things will be taken from you. Many will come and take your wealth. It will be like the times when locusts come and eat all your crops.
5. The Lord is very great. He lives in a very high place. He fills Zion with justice and goodness.
6. Jerusalem, you are rich with wisdom and knowledge of God. You are rich with salvation. You respect the Lord, and that makes you rich.
7. But listen! The messengers are crying outside. The messengers who bring peace are crying very hard.
21-23. because the Lord is our powerful leader there. That land is a place with streams and wide rivers, but there will be no enemy boats or powerful ships on those rivers. You men who work on such boats can stop your work with the ropes. You cannot make the mast strong enough. You will not be able to open your sails, because the Lord is our judge. He makes our laws. He is our king. He saves us. The Lord will give us our wealth. Even crippled people will get their share.