and that you might see your grandchildren. May Israel experience peace!

Pay attention, all you people, both rich and poor!

so that the next generation, children yet to be born, might know about them. They will grow up and tell their descendants about them.

But the Lord continually shows loyal love to his faithful followers, and is faithful to their descendants,

foreigners lose their courage; they shake with fear as they leave their strongholds.

This collection of the prayers of David son of Jesse ends here.

The Lord revealed his faithful acts to Moses, his deeds to the Israelites.

O children of Abraham, God’s servant, you descendants of Jacob, God’s chosen ones!

They sacrificed their sons and daughters to demons.

Let them give thanks to the Lord for his loyal love, and for the amazing things he has done for people!

Let them give thanks to the Lord for his loyal love, and for the amazing things he has done for people!

Let them give thanks to the Lord for his loyal love, and for the amazing things he has done for people!

Let them give thanks to the Lord for his loyal love, and for the amazing things he has done for people!

May his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow!

May his children roam around begging, asking for handouts as they leave their ruined home!

The mountains skipped like rams, the hills like lambs.

Why do you skip like rams, O mountains, like lambs, O hills?

May he increase your numbers, yours and your children’s!

Sons born during one’s youth are like arrows in a warrior’s hand.

Men are nothing but a mere breath; human beings are unreliable. When they are weighed in the scales, all of them together are lighter than air.