<p class="poetry">For your arrows pierce<n id="1" /> me,p> <p class="poetry">and your hand presses me down.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">They live out<n id="1" /> their years in prosperityp> <p class="poetry">and go down<n id="2" /> to the grave<n id="3" /> in peace.p>

<p class="poetry">A rebuke makes a greater impression on<n id="1" /> a discerning personp> <p class="poetry">than a hundred blows on a fool.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">He trains<n id="1" /> my hands for battle;<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">my arms can bend even the strongest bow.<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">He trains my hands for battle;<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">my arms can bend even the strongest bow.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">You saturate<n id="1" /> its furrows,p> <p class="poetry">and soak<n id="2" /> its plowed ground.<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">With rain showers you soften its soil,<n id="4" />p> <p class="poetry">and make its crops grow.<n id="5" />p>

<p class="poetry">Lend your aid<n id="1" /> and come,p> <p class="poetry">all you surrounding nations,p> <p class="poetry">and gather yourselves<n id="2" /> to that place.&#8221;p> <p class="poetry">Bring down, O <sc>Lordsc>, your warriors!<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">The <sc>Lordsc> shatters<n id="1" /> his adversaries;<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">he thunders against them from<n id="3" /> the heavens.p> <p class="poetry">The <sc>Lordsc> executes judgment to the ends of the earth.p> <p class="poetry">He will strengthen<n id="4" /> his kingp> <p class="poetry">and exalt the power<n id="5" /> of his anointed one.&#8221;<n id="6" />p>

But the prophet sent this message to the king of Israel, &#8220;Make sure you don&#8217;t pass through this place because Syria is invading there.&#8221;

<p class="poetry">Listen, you<n id="1" /> who sit enthroned above the valley on a rocky plateau.p> <p class="poetry">I am opposed to you,&#8217;<n id="2" /> says the <sc>Lordsc>.<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">&#8216;You boast, &#8220;No one can swoop down on us.p> <p class="poetry">No one can penetrate into our places of refuge.&#8221;<n id="4" />p>