For look, the LORD is coming from His place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity. The earth will reveal the blood shed on it and will no longer conceal her slain.

For the LORD has chosen Zion; He has desired it for His home:

"This is My resting place forever; I will make My home here because I have desired it.

I will depart and return to My place until they recognize their guilt and seek My face; they will search for Me in their distress.

At that time a gift will be brought to the LORD of Hosts from a people tall and smooth-skinned, a people feared near and far, a powerful nation with a strange language, whose land is divided by rivers-- to Mount Zion, the place of the name of the LORD of Hosts.

Cry out and sing, citizen of Zion, for the Holy One of Israel is among you in [His] greatness."

What answer will be given to the messengers from that nation? The LORD has founded Zion, and His afflicted people find refuge in her.

His rock will pass away because of fear, and his officers will be afraid because of the signal flag. [This is] the LORD's declaration-- whose fire is in Zion and whose furnace is in Jerusalem.

I am bringing My justice near; it is not far away, and My salvation will not delay. I will put salvation in Zion, My splendor in Israel.

Then you will know that I am the LORD your God, who dwells in Zion, My holy mountain. Jerusalem will be holy, and foreigners will never overrun it again.

is like the morning light when the sun rises on a cloudless morning, the glisten of rain on sprouting grass."

May he be like rain that falls on the cut grass, like spring showers that water the earth.