1 O Lord, you are my God.I will highly honor you; I will praise your name.You have done miraculous things.You have been completely reliablein carrying out your plans from long ago.
2 You have turned cities into ruins,fortified cities into piles of rubble,and foreigners’ palaces into cities that will never be rebuilt.
3 That is why strong people will honor you,and cities ruled by the world’s tyrants will fear you.
4 You have been a refuge for the poor,a refuge for the needy in their distress,a shelter from the rain, and shade from the heat.(A tyrant’s breath is like a rainstorm against a wall,