<p class="poetry">The <sc>Lordsc> has broken the club of the wicked,p> <p class="poetry">the scepter of rulers.p>

<p class="poetry">For their oppressive yokep> <p class="poetry">and the club that strikes their shoulders,p> <p class="poetry">the cudgel the oppressor uses on them,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">you have shattered, as in the day of Midian&#8217;s defeat.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">Does an ax exalt itself over the one who wields it,p> <p class="poetry">or a saw magnify itself over the one who cuts with it?<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">As if a scepter should brandish the one who raises it,p> <p class="poetry">or a staff should lift up what is not made of wood!p>

<p class="poetry">Every blow from his punishing cudgel,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">with which the <sc>Lordsc> will beat them,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">will be accompanied by music from the<n id="3" /> tambourine and harp,p> <p class="poetry">and he will attack them with his weapons.<n id="4" />p>