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Glorify, O Jerusalem, Jehovah, Praise thy God, O Zion.

The exaltation of God [is] in their throat, And a two-edged sword in their hand.

Praise ye Jah! Praise ye God in His holy place, Praise Him in the expanse of His strength.

Then understandest thou fear of Jehovah, And knowledge of God thou findest.

Who is forsaking the guide of her youth, And the covenant of her God hath forgotten.

And find grace and good understanding In the eyes of God and man.

Withhold not good from its owners, When thy hand [is] toward God to do [it].

The honour of God [is] to hide a thing, And the honour of kings to search out a matter.

Words of a Gatherer, son of an obedient one, the declaration, an affirmation of the man: -- I have wearied myself [for] God, I have wearied myself [for] God, and am consumed.

Every saying of God [is] tried, A shield He [is] to those trusting in Him.

Lest I become satiated, and have denied, And have said, `Who [is] Jehovah?' And lest I be poor, and have stolen, And have laid hold of the name of my God.

And I have given my heart to seek and to search out by wisdom concerning all that hath been done under the heavens. It [is] a sad travail God hath given to the sons of man to be humbled by it.

There is nothing good in a man who eateth, and hath drunk, and hath shewn his soul good in his labour. This also I have seen that it [is] from the hand of God.

For to a man who [is] good before Him, He hath given wisdom, and knowledge, and joy; and to a sinner He hath given travail, to gather and to heap up, to give to the good before God. Even this [is] vanity and vexation of spirit.

I have seen the travail that God hath given to the sons of man to be humbled by it.

The whole He hath made beautiful in its season; also, that knowledge He hath put in their heart without which man findeth not out the work that God hath done from the beginning even unto the end.

yea, even every man who eateth and hath drunk and seen good by all his labour, it [is] a gift of God.

I have known that all that God doth is to the age, to it nothing is to be added, and from it nothing is to be withdrawn; and God hath wrought that they do fear before Him.

What is that which hath been? already it is, and that which [is] to be hath already been, and God requireth that which is pursued.

I said in my heart, `The righteous and the wicked doth God judge, for a time [is] to every matter and for every work there.'