7 Listen to me, you people who know righteousness,you people who have my teachings in your hearts.Don’t be afraid of being insulted by people.Don’t be discouraged by their ridicule.
8 Moths will eat them like clothing.Worms will devour them like wool.But my righteousness will last forever,and my salvation will last throughout every generation.
9 Wake up! Wake up! Clothe yourself with strength, O Lord!Wake up as you did in days long past, as in generations long ago.Didn’t you cut Rahab into pieces and stab the serpent?
10 Didn’t you dry up the sea, the water of the great ocean?You made a road in the depths of the seaso that the people reclaimed ⌊by the Lord⌋might pass through it.
11 The people ransomed by the Lord will return.They will come to Zion singing with joy.Everlasting happiness will be on their heads ⌊as a crown⌋.They will be glad and joyful.They will have no sorrow or grief.
12 I alone am the one who comforts you.Why, then, are you afraid of mortals, who must die,of humans, who are like grass?
13 Why have you forgotten the Lord, your Creator?He stretched out the heavensand laid the foundations of the earth.Why should you live in constant fear of the furyof those who oppress you,of those who are ready to destroy you?Where is the fury of those who oppress you?