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As we have heard, so we have seen, In the city of Jehovah of hosts, In the city of our God, God doth establish her -- to the age. Selah.

As [is] Thy name, O God, so [is] Thy praise, Over the ends of the earth, Righteousness hath filled Thy right hand.

Set your heart to her bulwark, Consider her high places, So that ye recount to a later generation,

Against Thee, Thee only, I have sinned, And done the evil thing in Thine eyes, So that Thou art righteous in Thy words, Thou art pure in Thy judging.

So do I praise Thy name for ever, When I pay my vows day by day!

So in the sanctuary I have seen Thee, To behold Thy strength and Thine honour.

So I bless Thee in my life, in Thy name I lift up my hands.

So that thou dashest thy foot in blood, [In the blood of] enemies -- the tongue of Thy dogs.'

So that a later generation doth know, Sons who are born, do rise and recount to their sons,

So dost Thou pursue them with Thy whirlwind, And with Thy hurricane troublest them.

Mortal man! as grass [are] his days, As a flower of the field so he flourisheth;

My heart is perfect in Thy statutes, So that I am not ashamed.

From every evil path I restrained my feet, So that I keep Thy word.

Lo, as eyes of men-servants [Are] unto the hand of their masters, As eyes of a maid-servant [Are] unto the hand of her mistress, So [are] our eyes unto Jehovah our God, Till that He doth favour us.

Vain for you who are rising early, Who delay sitting, eating the bread of griefs, So He giveth to His beloved one sleep.

As arrows in the hand of a mighty one, So [are] the sons of the young men.

Also darkness hideth not from Thee, And night as day shineth, as [is] darkness so [is] light.

He hath not done so to any nation, As to judgments, they have not known them. Praise ye Jah!

So [are] the paths of every gainer of dishonest gain, The life of its owners it taketh.

So [is] he who hath gone in unto the wife of his neighbour, None who doth touch her is innocent.