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Praise ye Jah! For [it is] good to praise our God, For pleasant -- comely [is] praise.

Who is covering the heavens with clouds, Who is preparing for the earth rain, Who is causing grass to spring up [on] mountains,

Jehovah is pleased with those fearing Him, With those waiting for His kindness.

For He did strengthen the bars of thy gates, He hath blessed thy sons in thy midst.

They do praise the name of Jehovah, For He commanded, and they were created.

And He establisheth them for ever to the age, A statute He gave, and they pass not over.

They praise the name of Jehovah, For His name alone hath been set on high, His honour [is] above earth and heavens.

For Jehovah is pleased with His people, He beautifieth the humble with salvation.

To do among them the judgment written, An honour it [is] for all his saints. Praise ye Jah!

For knowing wisdom and instruction, For understanding sayings of intelligence,

For receiving the instruction of wisdom, Righteousness, judgment, and uprightness,

For giving to simple ones -- prudence, To a youth -- knowledge and discretion.

For understanding a proverb and its sweetness, Words of the wise and their acute sayings.

For a graceful wreath [are] they to thy head, And chains to thy neck.

If they say, `Come with us, we lay wait for blood, We watch secretly for the innocent without cause,

For their feet to evil do run, And they haste to shed blood.

And they for their own blood lay wait, They watch secretly for their own lives.

For the turning of the simple slayeth them, And the security of the foolish destroyeth them.

For, if for intelligence thou callest, For understanding givest forth thy voice,

If thou dost seek her as silver, And as hid treasures searchest for her,