¹⁸ `Thou dost not sacrifice on a fermented thing the blood of My sacrifice, and the fat of My festival doth not remain till morning;

¹ Wo, spoiler! and thou not spoiled, And treacherous! and they dealt not treacherously with thee, When thou dost finish, O spoiler, thou art spoiled, When thou dost finish dealing treacherously, They deal treacherously with thee.

² O Jehovah, favour us, for thee we have waited, Be their arm, in the mornings, Yea, our salvation in time of adversity.

³ From the voice of a multitude fled have peoples, From thine exaltation scattered have been nations.

⁴ And gathered hath been your spoil, A gathering of the caterpillar, As a running to and fro of locusts is he running on it.

⁵ Set on high is Jehovah, for He is dwelling on high, He filled Zion [with] judgment and righteousness,

⁶ And hath been the stedfastness of thy times, The strength of salvation, wisdom, and knowledge, Fear of Jehovah -- it [is] His treasure.

⁷ Lo, `Their Ariel,' they have cried without, Messengers of peace do weep bitterly.

⁸ Desolated have been highways, Ceased hath he who passeth along the path, He hath broken covenant, He hath despised enemies, He hath not esteemed a man.

⁹ Mourned, languished hath the land, Confounded hath been Lebanon, Withered hath been Sharon as a wilderness, And shaking are Bashan and Carmel.

¹⁰ Now, do I arise, saith Jehovah, Now I am exalted, now I am lifted up.

¹¹ Ye conceive chaff, ye bear stubble, Your spirit! -- fire devoureth you.

¹² And peoples have been [as] burnings of lime, Thorns, as sweepings, with fire they burn.

¹³ Hear, ye far off, that which I have done, And know, ye near ones, My might.

¹⁴ Afraid in Zion have been sinners, Seized hath trembling the profane: Who doth dwell for us -- consuming fire, Who doth dwell for us -- burnings of the age?

¹⁵ Whoso is walking righteously, And is speaking uprightly, Kicking against gain of oppressions, Shaking his hands from taking hold on a bribe, Stopping his ear from hearing of blood, And shutting his eyes from looking on evil,

¹⁶ He high places doth inhabit, Strongholds of rock [are] his high tower, His bread hath been given, his waters stedfast.

¹⁷ A king in his beauty, see do thine eyes, They see a land afar off.

¹⁸ Thy heart doth meditate terror, Where [is] he who is counting? Where [is] he who is weighing? Where [is] he who is counting the towers?

¹⁹ The strong people thou seest not, A people deeper of lip than to be understood, Of a scorned tongue, there is no understanding.

²⁰ See Zion, the city of our meetings, Thine eyes See Jerusalem a quiet habitation, A tent not taken down, Not removed are its pins for ever, And none of its cords are broken.

²¹ But there mighty [is] Jehovah for us, A place of rivers -- streams broad of sides, No ship with oars doth go into it, And a mighty ship doth not pass over it.

²² For Jehovah our judge, Jehovah our lawgiver, Jehovah our king -- He doth save us.

²³ Left have been thy ropes, They strengthen not rightly their mast, They have not spread out a sail, Then apportioned hath been a prey of much spoil, The lame have taken spoil.

²⁴ Nor doth an inhabitant say, `I was sick,' The people that is dwelling in it, is forgiven of iniquity!

¹ Pray, call, is there any to answer thee? And unto which of the holy ones dost thou turn?

² For provocation slayeth the perverse, And envy putteth to death the simple,

³ I -- I have seen the perverse taking root, And I mark his habitation straightway,

⁴ Far are his sons from safety, And they are bruised in the gate, And there is no deliverer.

⁵ Whose harvest the hungry doth eat, And even from the thorns taketh it, And the designing swallowed their wealth.

⁶ For sorrow cometh not forth from the dust, Nor from the ground springeth up misery.

⁷ For man to misery is born, And the sparks go high to fly.

⁸ Yet I -- I inquire for God, And for God I give my word,

⁹ Doing great things, and there is no searching. Wonderful, till there is no numbering.

¹⁰ Who is giving rain on the face of the land, And is sending waters on the out-places.

¹¹ To set the low on a high place, And the mourners have been high [in] safety.

¹² Making void thoughts of the subtile, And their hands do not execute wisdom.

¹³ Capturing the wise in their subtilty, And the counsel of wrestling ones was hastened,

¹⁴ By day they meet darkness, And as night -- they grope at noon.

¹⁵ And He saveth the wasted from their mouth, And from a strong hand the needy,

¹⁶ And there is hope to the poor, And perverseness hath shut her mouth.

¹⁷ Lo, the happiness of mortal man, God doth reprove him: And the chastisement of the Mighty despise not,

¹⁸ For He doth pain, and He bindeth up, He smiteth, and His hands heal.

¹⁹ In six distresses He delivereth thee, And in seven evil striketh not on thee.

²⁰ In famine He hath redeemed thee from death, And in battle from the hands of the sword.

²¹ When the tongue scourgeth thou art hid, And thou art not afraid of destruction, When it cometh.

²² At destruction and at hunger thou mockest, And of the beast of the earth, Thou art not afraid.

²³ (For with sons of the field [is] thy covenant, And the beast of the field Hath been at peace with thee.)

²⁴ And thou hast known that thy tent [is] peace, And inspected thy habitation, and errest not,

²⁵ And hast known that numerous [is] Thy seed, And thine offspring as the herb of the earth;

²⁶ Thou comest in full age unto the grave, As the going up of a stalk in its season.

²⁷ Lo, this -- we searched it out -- it [is] right, hearken; And thou, know for thyself!