<p class="poetry">when you deliver<n id="1" /> my life from death.p> <p class="poetry">You keep my feet from stumbling,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">so that I might serve<n id="3" /> God as I enjoy life.<n id="4" />p>

<p class="poetry">Sound your battle cry<n id="1" /> against the wild beast of the reeds,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">and the nations that assemble like a herd of calves led by bulls!<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">They humble themselves<n id="4" /> and offer gold and silver as tribute.<n id="5" />p> <p class="poetry">God<n id="6" /> scatters<n id="7" /> the nations that like to do battle.p>

<p class="poetry">I desperately want to be<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">in the courts of the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s temple.<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">My heart and my entire being<n id="3" /> shout for joyp> <p class="poetry">to the living God.p>

<p class="poetry">Over here is the deep, wide sea,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">which teems with innumerable swimming creatures,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">living things both small and large.p>

<p class="poetry">It is like the dew of Hermon,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">which flows down upon the hills of Zion.<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">Indeed<n id="3" /> that is where the <sc>Lordsc> has decreedp> <p class="poetry">a blessing will be available &#8211; eternal life.<n id="4" />p>

<p class="poetry">So I loathed<n id="1" /> life<n id="2" /> because whatp> <p class="poetry">happens<n id="3" /> on earth<n id="4" /> seems awful to me;p> <p class="poetry">for all the benefits of wisdom<n id="5" /> are futile &#8211; like chasing the wind.p>

<p class="poetry">I considered all the living who walk on earth,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">as well as the successor<n id="2" /> who would arise<n id="3" /> in his place.p>

<p class="poetry">For he does not think<n id="1" /> much about the fleeting<n id="2" /> days of his lifep> <p class="poetry">because God keeps him preoccupied<n id="3" /> with the joy he derives from his activity.<n id="4" />p>

<p class="poetry">It is better to go to a funeral<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">than a feast.<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">For death<n id="3" /> is the destiny<n id="4" /> of every person,<n id="5" />p> <p class="poetry">and the living should<n id="6" /> take this<n id="7" /> to heart.p>

<p class="poetry">For the living know that they will die, but the dead do not know anything;p> <p class="poetry">they have no further reward &#8211; and even the memory of them disappears.<n id="1" />p>

<p class="poetry">No lions will be there,p> <p class="poetry">no ferocious wild animals will be on it<n id="1" /> &#8211;p> <p class="poetry">they will not be found there.p> <p class="poetry">Those delivered from bondage will travel on it,p>

Pay attention, <sc>Lordsc>, and hear! Open your eyes, <sc>Lordsc>, and observe! Listen to this entire message Sennacherib sent and how he taunts the living God!<n id="1" />

<p class="poetry">&#8220;I thought,p> <p class="poetry">&#8216;I will no longer see the <sc>Lordsc><n id="1" /> in the land of the living,p> <p class="poetry">I will no longer look on humankind with the inhabitants of the world.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">My dwelling place<n id="1" /> is removed and taken away<n id="2" /> from mep> <p class="poetry">like a shepherd&#8217;s tent.p> <p class="poetry">I rolled up my life like a weaver rolls cloth;<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">from the loom he cuts me off.<n id="4" />p> <p class="poetry">You turn day into night and end my life.<n id="5" />p>

<p class="poetry">The wild animals of the desert honor me,p> <p class="poetry">the jackals and ostriches,p> <p class="poetry">because I put water in the desertp> <p class="poetry">and streams in the wilderness,p> <p class="poetry">to quench the thirst of my chosen people,p>

<p class="poetry">Look all around you!<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">All of them gather to you.p> <p class="poetry">As surely as I live,&#8221; says the <sc>Lordsc>,p> <p class="poetry">&#8220;you will certainly wear all of them like jewelry;p> <p class="poetry">you will put them on as if you were a bride.p>

<p class="poetry">He was led away after an unjust trial<n id="1" /> &#8211;p> <p class="poetry">but who even cared?<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">Indeed, he was cut off from the land of the living;<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">because of the rebellion of his own<n id="4" /> people he was wounded.p>

<p class="poetry">Because of the long distance you must travel, you get tired,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">but you do not say, &#8216;I give up.&#8217;<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">You get renewed energy,<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">so you don&#8217;t collapse.<n id="4" />p>

<p class="poetry">The <sc>Lordsc> is the only true God.p> <p class="poetry">He is the living God and the everlasting King.p> <p class="poetry">When he shows his anger the earth shakes.p> <p class="poetry">None of the nations can stand up to his fury.p>

<p class="poetry">The people I call my own attack me like birds of prey or like hyenas.<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">But other birds of prey are all around them.<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">Let all the nations gather together like wild beasts.p> <p class="poetry">Let them come and destroy these people I call my own.<n id="3" />p>