<p class="poetry">And you put my feet in the stocks<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">and you watch all my movements;<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">you put marks<n id="3" /> on the soles of my feet.p>

<p class="poetry">He gives me the agility of a deer;<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">he enables me to negotiate the rugged terrain.<n id="2" />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 am safe,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">and among the worshipers I will praise the <sc>Lordsc>.p>

<p class="poetry">I consider my actions<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">and follow<n id="2" /> your rules.p>

<p class="poetry">It is trampled underfootp> <p class="poetry">by the feet of the oppressed,p> <p class="poetry">by the soles of the poor.&#8221;p>

<p class="poetry">I wipe them out and beat them to death;p> <p class="poetry">they cannot get up;p> <p class="poetry">they fall at my feet.p>

<p class="poetry">My feet<n id="1" /> have followed<n id="2" /> his steps closely;p> <p class="poetry">I have kept to his way and have not turned aside.<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">If<n id="1" /> I have walked in falsehood,p> <p class="poetry">and if<n id="2" /> my foot has hastened<n id="3" /> to deceit &#8211;p>

<p class="poetry">He gives me the agility of a deer;<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">he enables me to negotiate the rugged terrain.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">I beat them<n id="1" /> to death;<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">they fall at my feet.<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">You do not deliver me over to the power of the enemy;p> <p class="poetry">you enable me to stand<n id="1" /> in a wide open place.p>

<p class="poetry">But as for me, my feet almost slipped;p> <p class="poetry">my feet almost slid out from under me.<n id="1" />p>

<p class="poetry">If I say, &#8220;My foot is slipping,&#8221;p> <p class="poetry">your loyal love, O <sc>Lordsc>, supports me.p>

<p class="poetry">I stay away<n id="1" /> from the evil path,p> <p class="poetry">so that I might keep your instructions.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="bodytext">The Israelites journeyed<n id="1" /> from Rameses<n id="2" /> to Sukkoth. There were about 600,000 men<n id="3" /> on foot, plus their dependants.<n id="4" />

<p class="poetry">He watches over<n id="1" /> his holy ones,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">but the wicked are made speechless in the darkness,p> <p class="poetry">for it is not by one&#8217;s own strength that one prevails.p>

She arose, bowed her face toward the ground, and said, &#8220;Your female servant, like a lowly servant, will wash<n id="1" /> the feet of the servants of my lord.&#8221;

<p class="poetry">On my right the young rabble<n id="1" /> rise up;p> <p class="poetry">they drive me from place to place,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">and build up siege ramps<n id="3" /> against me.<n id="4" />p>

<p class="poetry">I continually look to the <sc>Lordsc> for help,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">for he will free my feet from the enemy&#8217;s net.<n id="2" />p>