<p class="poetry">A rope is hidden for him<n id="1" /> on the groundp> <p class="poetry">and a trap for him<n id="2" /> lies on the path.p>

<p class="poetry">Guide me<n id="1" /> in the path of your commands,p> <p class="poetry">for I delight to walk in it.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="lamhebrew">&#1504; (<i>Nuni>)p> <p class="poetry">Your word<n id="1" /> is a lamp to walk by,p> <p class="poetry">and a light to illumine my path.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">Her ways are very pleasant,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">and all her paths are peaceful.p>

<p class="poetry">I walk in the path of righteousness,p> <p class="poetry">in the pathway of justice,p>

<p class="poetry">He has blocked<n id="1" /> every road I take<n id="2" /> with a wall of hewn stones;p> <p class="poetry">he has made every path impassable.<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">He has blocked<n id="1" /> my way so I cannot pass,p> <p class="poetry">and has set darkness<n id="2" /> over my paths.p>

<p class="poetry">a hidden path<n id="1" /> no bird of prey knows &#8211;p> <p class="poetry">no falcon&#8217;s<n id="2" /> eye has spotted it.p>

<p class="poetry">They destroy<n id="1" /> my path;p> <p class="poetry">they succeed in destroying me<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">without anyone assisting<n id="3" /> them.p>

<p class="poetry">that you may take them to their bordersp> <p class="poetry">and perceive the pathways to their homes?<n id="1" />p>

<p class="poetry">It leaves a glistening wake behind it;p> <p class="poetry">one would think the deep had a head of white hair.p>

<p class="poetry">My child, do not go down<n id="1" /> their way,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">withhold yourself<n id="3" /> from their path;<n id="4" />p>

<p class="poetry">Do not let your heart turn aside to her ways &#8211;p> <p class="poetry">do not wander into her pathways;p>

<p class="poetry">At the top<n id="1" /> of the elevated places along the way,p> <p class="poetry">at the intersection<n id="2" /> of the paths she takes her stand;p>

<p class="poetry">In the path of righteousness there is life,p> <p class="poetry">but another path leads to death.<n id="1" />p>

<p class="poetry">There are those<n id="1" /> who rebel against the light;p> <p class="poetry">they do not know its waysp> <p class="poetry">and they do not stay on its paths.p>

<p class="poetry">He sent his anger in full force;<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">he did not spare them from death;p> <p class="poetry">he handed their lives over to destruction.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">This is what the <sc>Lordsc> says,p> <p class="poetry">the one who made a road through the sea,p> <p class="poetry">a pathway through the surging waters,p>

<p class="poetry">In the days of Shamgar son of Anath,p> <p class="poetry">in the days of Jael caravans<n id="1" /> disappeared;<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">travelers<n id="3" /> had to go on winding side roads.p>

<p class="poetry">Even when my strength leaves me,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">you watch my footsteps.<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">In the path where I walkp> <p class="poetry">they have hidden a trap for me.p>