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So he lifted up his hand unto them, that he would let them fall in the desert;

So they provoked to anger by their doings, and a plague, made a breach among them.

So it was counted unto him, for righteousness, To generation after generation, unto times age abiding.

So he delivered them up into the hand of the nations, And they who hated them, had dominion over them;

All manner of food, their soul abhorreth, and so they draw near unto the gates of death,

So have they become few and been brought low, By oppression, misfortune, and sorrow;

So, I, am become a reproach for them, They see me, they shake their head.

So shall I have something to answer him that reproacheth me, That I have trusted in thy word.

According to thy lovingkindness, give thou me life, so will I keep the testimonies of thy mouth.

Thy servant, I am - give me understanding, so shall I get to know thy testimonies.

Set me free from the oppression of man, so will I keep thy precepts.

Let my soul live, that it may praise thee, So shall thy regulation help me.

Lo! as the eyes of men-servants are unto the hand of their masters, as the eyes of a maid-servant, unto the hand of her mistress, so, are our eyes, unto Yahweh our God, until that he show us favour.

Then, had gone over our soul the waters so proud!

Vain for you, - to be early in rising, to be late in lying down, to be eating the bread of wearisome toil, So, would he give his beloved one sleep.

As arrows in the hand of a warrior, so, are the children of young men.

Even darkness, will not conceal from thee, - but, night, like day, will shine, So is the darkness, as the light!

He hath not dealt so with any nation, and, his regulations, he maketh not known to them. Praise ye Yah!

So caused he them to stand perpetually - age-abidingly, A decree, hath he given, and it passeth not beyond.

So that thou direct, unto wisdom, thine ear, bend thy heart, unto understanding;