1. O LORD, you are my God; I will exalt you, I will praise your name; for you have done wonderful things; your counsels of old are faithfulness and truth.
2. For you have made of a city a heap; of a fortified city a ruin: a palace of strangers to be no city; it shall never be built.
3. Therefore shall the strong people glorify you, the city of the terrible nations shall fear you.
4. For you have been a strength to the poor, a strength to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shadow from the heat, for the blast of the terrible ones is as a storm against the wall.