<p class="poetry">He makes Lebanon skip like a calfp> <p class="poetry">and Sirion<n id="1" /> like a young ox.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">Who is like you,<n id="1" /> O <sc>Lordsc>, among the gods?<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">Who is like you? &#8211; majestic in holiness, fearful in praises,<n id="3" /> working wonders?p>

<p class="poetry">to the land of utter darkness,p> <p class="poetry">like the deepest darkness,p> <p class="poetry">and the deepest shadow and disorder,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">where even the light<n id="2" /> is like darkness.&#8221;<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">Let them disappear<n id="1" /> like water that flows away!<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">Let them wither like grass!<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">Before the kindling is even placed under your pots,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">he<n id="2" /> will sweep it away along with both the raw and cooked meat.<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">The depths have covered them,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">they went down to the bottom<n id="2" /> like a stone.p>

<p class="poetry">I would give him an accounting of my steps;p> <p class="poetry">like a prince I would approach him.p>

<p class="poetry">Your wickedness affects only<n id="1" /> a person like yourself,p> <p class="poetry">and your righteousness only other people.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">The earth takes shape like clay under a seal;<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">its features<n id="2" /> are dyed<n id="3" /> like a garment.p>

<p class="poetry">None can compare to you among the gods, O Lord!p> <p class="poetry">Your exploits are incomparable!<n id="1" />p>

<p class="bodytext">He said to Zebah and Zalmunna, &#8220;Describe for me<n id="1" /> the men you killed at Tabor.&#8221; They said, &#8220;They were like you. Each one looked like a king&#8217;s son.&#8221;<n id="2" />

I<n id="1" /> grant your request,<n id="2" /> and give<n id="3" /> you a wise and discerning mind<n id="4" /> superior to that of anyone who has preceded or will succeed you.<n id="5" />

<p class="bodytext">But I replied, &#8220;Should a man like me run away? Would someone like me flee to the temple in order to save his life?<n id="1" /> I will not go!&#8221;

<p class="poetry">I also have understanding<n id="1" /> as well as you;p> <p class="poetry">I am not inferior to you.<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">Who does not know such things as these?<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">I have stirred up one out of the north<n id="1" /> and he advances,p> <p class="poetry">one from the eastern horizon who prays in my name.<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">He steps on<n id="3" /> rulers as if they were clay,p> <p class="poetry">like a potter treading the clay.p>

Whoever makes anything like it, to use as perfume,<n id="1" /> will be cut off from his people.&#8221;p>

<p class="poetry">My brothers<n id="1" /> have been as treacherous<n id="2" /> as a seasonal stream,<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">and as the riverbeds of the intermittent streams<n id="4" />p> <p class="poetry">that flow away.<n id="5" />p>

<p class="poetry">For he<n id="1" /> is not a human being like I am,p> <p class="poetry">that<n id="2" /> I might answer him,p> <p class="poetry">that we might come<n id="3" /> together in judgment.p>

<p class="poetry">at the scent<n id="1" /> of water it will flourish<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">and put forth<n id="3" /> shoots like a new plant.p>

<p class="poetry">Why do you pursue me like God does?<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">Will you never be satiated with my flesh?<n id="2" />p>