<p class="poetry">Look at them shake uncontrollably,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">like a woman writhing in childbirth.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">See the one who is pregnant with wickedness,p> <p class="poetry">who conceives destructive plans,p> <p class="poetry">and gives birth to harmful lies &#8211; <n id="1" />p>

<p class="poetry">They will come and tell about his saving deeds;<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">they will tell a future generation what he has accomplished.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">The <sc>Lordsc> writes in the census book of the nations,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">&#8220;This one was born there.&#8221;<n id="2" /> (Selah)p>

<p class="poetry">The king says,<n id="1" /> &#8220;I will announce the <sc>Lord&#8217;ssc> decree. He said to me:<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">&#8216;You are my son!<n id="3" /> This very day I have become your father!p>

<p class="poetry">so that the next generation, children yet to be born,p> <p class="poetry">might know about them.p> <p class="poetry">They will grow up and tell their descendants about them.<n id="1" />p>

<p class="poetry">I mention Rahab<n id="1" /> and Babylon to my followers.<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">Here are<n id="3" /> Philistia and Tyre,<n id="4" /> along with Ethiopia.<n id="5" />p> <p class="poetry">It is said of them, &#8220;This one was born there.&#8221;<n id="6" />p>

<p class="poetry">But it is said of Zion&#8217;s residents,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">&#8220;Each one of these<n id="2" /> was born in her,p> <p class="poetry">and the sovereign One<n id="3" /> makes her secure.&#8221;<n id="4" />p>

<p class="poetry">Even before the mountains came into existence,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">or you brought the world into being,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">you were the eternal God.<n id="3" />p>