13  You went out for the salvation of your people,

for the salvation of your anointed.

You crushed the head of the house of the wicked,

laying him bare from thigh to neck.¹ Selah

14  Herds shall lie down in her midst,

all kinds of beasts;¹

even the owl and the hedgehog²

shall lodge in her capitals;

a voice shall hoot in the window;

devastation will be on the threshold;

for her cedar work will be laid bare.