<p class="poetry">She is clothed<n id="1" /> with strength<n id="2" /> and honor,<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">and she can laugh<n id="4" /> at the time<n id="5" /> to come.p>

<p class="poetry">Consider its defenses!<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">Walk through<n id="2" /> its fortresses,p> <p class="poetry">so you can tell the next generation about it!<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">we will not hide from their<n id="1" /> descendants.p> <p class="poetry">We will tell the next generationp> <p class="poetry">about the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s praiseworthy acts,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">about his strength and the amazing things he has done.p>

<p class="poetry">so that the next generation, children yet to be born,p> <p class="poetry">might know about them.p> <p class="poetry">They will grow up and tell their descendants about them.<n id="1" />p>

<p class="poetry">The account of his intervention<n id="1" /> will be recorded for future generations;p> <p class="poetry">people yet to be born will praise the <sc>Lordsc>.p>

<p class="poetry">Listen to me, O Jacob,p> <p class="poetry">Israel, whom I summoned!p> <p class="poetry">I am the one;p> <p class="poetry">I am present at the very beginningp> <p class="poetry">and at the very end.<n id="1" />p>

<p class="poetry">Now go, write it<n id="1" /> down on a tablet in their presence,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">inscribe it on a scroll,p> <p class="poetry">so that it might be preserved for a future timep> <p class="poetry">as an enduring witness.<n id="3" />p>

<t /><p class="poetry">This is what the <sc>Lordsc>, Israel&#8217;s king, says,p> <p class="poetry">their protector,<n id="1" /> the <sc>Lordsc> who commands armies:p> <p class="poetry">&#8220;I am the first and I am the last,p> <p class="poetry">there is no God but me.p>