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He pondereth a path for His anger, He kept not back their soul from death, Yea, their life to the pestilence He delivered up.

And causeth His people to journey as a flock, And guideth them as a drove in a wilderness,

And He bringeth them in unto the border of His sanctuary, This mountain His right hand had got,

And they tempt and provoke God Most High, And His testimonies have not kept.

And He giveth His strength to captivity, And His beauty into the hand of an adversary,

And delivereth up to the sword His people, And with His inheritance shewed Himself angry.

His young men hath fire consumed, And His virgins have not been praised.

His priests by the sword have fallen, And their widows weep not.

And He smiteth His adversaries backward, A reproach age-during He hath put on them,

And buildeth His sanctuary as a high place, Like the earth, He founded it to the age.

And He fixeth on David His servant, And taketh him from the folds of a flock,

From behind suckling ones He hath brought him in, To rule over Jacob His people, And over Israel His inheritance.

And he ruleth them according to the integrity of his heart, And by the skilfulness of his hands leadeth them!

For [one] hath devoured Jacob, And his habitation they have made desolate.

A testimony on Joseph He hath placed it, In his going forth over the land of Egypt. A lip, I have not known -- I hear.

From the burden his shoulder I turned aside, His hands from the basket pass over.

I hear what God Jehovah speaketh, For He speaketh peace unto His people, And unto His saints, and they turn not back to folly.

Only, near to those fearing Him [is] His salvation, That honour may dwell in our land.

Righteousness before Him goeth, And maketh His footsteps for a way!

By sons of Korah. -- A Psalm, a song. His foundation [is] in holy mountains.