<p class="poetry">I yearn for the Lord,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">more than watchmen do for the morning,p> <p class="poetry">yes, more than watchmen do for the morning.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">The one who guards his mouth and his tongue<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">keeps his life<n id="2" /> from troubles.<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">&#8220;The <sc>Lordsc> bless you<n id="1" /> and protect<n id="2" /> you;p>

<p class="poetry">The <sc>Lordsc> will protect you from all harm;p> <p class="poetry">he will protect your life.p>

<p class="poetry">The one who obeys commandments guards<n id="1" /> his life;p> <p class="poetry">the one who despises his ways<n id="2" /> will die.<n id="3" />p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">Be careful during an outbreak of leprosy to follow precisely<n id="1" /> all that the Levitical priests instruct you; as I have commanded them, so you should do.

Keep his<n id="1" /> commandments very carefully,<n id="2" /> as well as the stipulations and statutes he commanded you to observe.

<p class="poetry">I will always extend my loyal love to him,p> <p class="poetry">and my covenant with him is secure.<n id="1" />p>

<p class="poetry">The watchmen found me as they made their rounds in the city.p> <p class="poetry">They beat me, they bruised me;p> <p class="poetry">they took away my cloak, those watchmen on the walls!p>

<t /><p class="poetry">Here is a message about Dumah:<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">Someone calls to me from Seir,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">&#8220;Watchman, what is left of the night?p> <p class="poetry">Watchman, what is left of the night?&#8221;<n id="3" />p>

You have not kept charge of my holy things, but you have assigned foreigners<n id="1" /> to keep charge of my sanctuary for you.

and showing covenant faithfulness<n id="1" /> to a thousand generations<n id="2" /> of those who love me and keep my commandments.p>

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;You must be sure to do my commandments.<n id="1" /> I am the <sc>Lordsc>.

<p class="poetry">I was blameless before him;p> <p class="poetry">I kept myself from sinning.<n id="1" />p>

<p class="poetry">If I sinned, then you would watch mep> <p class="poetry">and you would not acquit me of my iniquity.p>

<n id="1" /><p class="poetry">He puts my feet in shackles;p> <p class="poetry">he watches closely all my paths.&#8217;p>

<p class="poetry">I was innocent before him,p> <p class="poetry">and kept myself from sinning.<n id="1" />p>

<p class="poetry">to those who keep his covenant,p> <p class="poetry">who are careful to obey his commands.<n id="1" />p>

<p class="poetry">The <sc>Lordsc> protects<n id="1" /> the untrained;<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">I was in serious trouble<n id="3" /> and he delivered me.p>

<p class="poetry">You demand that your preceptsp> <p class="poetry">be carefully kept.<n id="1" />p>