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Let them give thanks to Yahweh for his lovingkindness, and for his wonderful dealings with the sons of men!

God, hath spoken in his holiness, I will exult! I will apportion Shechem! And, the Vale of Succoth, will I measure out;

Set in charge over him, one who is lawless, and let, an accuser, stand at his right hand;

When he is judged, let him go out condemned, and let, his own petition, become a sin;

Let his days become few, his overseership, let another take;

Let his children become fatherless, and his wife a widow;

Let his children, wander about, and beg, Let them be driven out of heir ruins;

Let the creditor take aim at all that he hath, and let strangers prey on the fruit of his toil;

Let him have no one to continue lovingkindness, and there be none to favour his fatherless children;

Let his posterity be for cutting off, In another generation, let their name be wiped out;

Remembered be the iniquity of his fathers against Yahweh, and, the sin of his mother, let it not be wiped out;

Because he clothed himself in cursing as his outer garment, therefore may it have entered like water into his inward part, and like oil into his bones;

Be it his, as a garment he shall wrap round him, and for a girdle he shall, at all times, gird on:

Because he standeth at the right hand of the needy, To save, from them who would pass sentence on his life.

My Lord, on thy right hand, - hath shattered - in the day of his anger - kings;

Of the torrent in the way, will he drink; - For this cause, will he lift up his head.

Honourable and majestic, is his doing, and, his righteousness, standeth for aye.

A memorial, hath he made by his wonders, Gracious and compassionate, is Yahweh.

Food, hath he given to them who revere him, He will remember, age-abidingly, his covenant.

The might of his works, hath he declared to his people, that he may give them the inheritance of the nations.