<p class="poetry">Her ways are very pleasant,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">and all her paths are peaceful.p>

<p class="poetry">The <sc>Lordsc> abhors<n id="1" /> the plans<n id="2" /> of the wicked,<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">but pleasant words<n id="4" /> are pure.<n id="5" />p>

<p class="poetry">Pleasant words are like<n id="1" /> a honeycomb,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">sweet to the soul and healing<n id="3" /> to the bones.p>

<p class="poetry">May our sovereign God extend his favor to us!<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">Make our endeavors successful!p> <p class="poetry">Yes, make them successful!<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">I have asked the <sc>Lordsc> for one thing &#8211;p> <p class="poetry">this is what I desire!p> <p class="poetry">I want to live<n id="1" /> in the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s house<n id="2" /> all the days of my life,p> <p class="poetry">so I can gaze at the splendor<n id="3" /> of the <sc>Lordsc>p> <p class="poetry">and contemplate in his temple.p>

<p class="bodytext">Then I took my staff &#8220;Pleasantness&#8221; and cut it in two to annul my covenant that I had made with all the people.

<p class="bodytext">So I<n id="1" /> began to shepherd the flock destined for slaughter, the most afflicted<n id="2" /> of all the flock. Then I took two staffs,<n id="3" /> calling one &#8220;Pleasantness&#8221;<n id="4" /> and the other &#8220;Binders,&#8221;<n id="5" /> and I tended the flock.