<p class="poetry">Listen to the painful cries of the prisoners!<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">Use your great strength to set free those condemned to die!<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">Fear and dread<n id="1" /> will fall<n id="2" /> on them;p> <p class="poetry">by the greatness<n id="3" /> of your arm they will be as still as stone<n id="4" />p> <p class="poetry">until<n id="5" /> your people pass by, O <sc>Lordsc>,p> <p class="poetry">until the people whom you have bought<n id="6" /> pass by.p>

<p class="poetry">Even when I am old and gray,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">O God, do not abandon me,p> <p class="poetry">until I tell the next generation about your strength,p> <p class="poetry">and those coming after me about your power.<n id="2" />p>

<t /><p class="sosspeaker"><b><i>The Beloved to Her Lover:i>b>p> <p class="poetry">Set me like a cylinder seal<n id="1" /> over your heart,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">like a signet<n id="3" /> on your arm.<n id="4" />p> <p class="poetry">For love is as strong as death,<n id="5" />p> <p class="poetry">passion<n id="6" /> is as unrelenting<n id="7" /> as Sheol.p> <p class="poetry">Its flames burst forth,<n id="8" />p> <p class="poetry">it is a blazing flame.<n id="9" />p>