²¹ Put forward your cause, says the Lord; let your strong argument come out, says the King of Jacob.

³ If only I had knowledge of where he might be seen, so that I might come even to his seat!

⁴ I would put my cause in order before him, and my mouth would be full of arguments.

³ Get your strength together like a man of war; I will put questions to you, and you will give me the answers.

⁷ Send destruction on all who are lifted up, pulling down the sinners from their places.

⁸ Let them be covered together in the dust; let their faces be dark in the secret place of the underworld.

⁹ Then I will give praise to you, saying that your right hand is able to give you salvation.

¹ Give ear now to the words of the Lord: Up! put forward your cause before the mountains, let your voice be sounding among the hills.

² Give ear, O you mountains, to the Lord's cause, and take note, you bases of the earth: for the Lord has a cause against his people, and he will take it up with Israel.