<p class="poetry">I mention Rahab<n id="1" /> and Babylon to my followers.<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">Here are<n id="3" /> Philistia and Tyre,<n id="4" /> along with Ethiopia.<n id="5" />p> <p class="poetry">It is said of them, &#8220;This one was born there.&#8221;<n id="6" />p>

<t /><p class="psasuper">A song of ascents,<n id="2" /> by David.p> <p class="poetry">Look! How good and how pleasant it isp> <p class="poetry">when brothers live together!<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">For look, the wicked<n id="1" /> prepare<n id="2" /> their bows,<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">they put their arrows on the strings,p> <p class="poetry">to shoot in the darkness<n id="4" /> at the morally upright.<n id="5" />p>

<p class="poetry">Look, you make my days short-lived,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">and my life span is nothing from your perspective.<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">Surely all people, even those who seem secure, are nothing but vapor.<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">For look, they wait to ambush me;<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">powerful men stalk<n id="2" /> me,p> <p class="poetry">but not because I have rebelled or sinned, O <sc>Lordsc>.<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">Look, as the eyes of servants look to the hand of their master,p> <p class="poetry">as the eyes of a female servant look to the hand of her mistress,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">so my eyes will look to the <sc>Lordsc>, our God, until he shows us favor.p>

<t /><p class="psasuper">A song of ascents.<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">Attention!<n id="3" /> Praise the <sc>Lordsc>,p> <p class="poetry">all you servants of the <sc>Lordsc>,p> <p class="poetry">who serve<n id="4" /> in the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s temple during the night.p>