11Let the waste land and its flocks be glad, the tent-circles of Kedar; let the people of the rock give a glad cry, from the top of the mountains let them make a sound of joy.
12Let them give glory to the Lord, sounding his praise in the sea-lands.
13The Lord will go out as a man of war, he will be moved to wrath like a fighting-man: his voice will be strong, he will give a loud cry; he will go against his attackers like a man of war.
14I have long been quiet, I have kept myself in and done nothing: now I will make sounds of pain like a woman in childbirth, breathing hard and quickly.
15I will make waste mountains and hills, drying up all their plants; and I will make rivers dry, and pools dry land.
16And I will take the blind by a way of which they had no knowledge, guiding them by roads strange to them: I will make the dark places light before them, and the rough places level. These things will I do and will not give them up.
17They will be turned back and be greatly shamed who put their hope in pictured images, who say to metal images, You are our gods.
