<p class="poetry">You widen my path;<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">my feet<n id="2" /> do not slip.p>

<p class="poetry">Deliver me from my distress;<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">rescue me from my suffering!<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">I run along the path of your commands,p> <p class="poetry">for you enable me to do so.<n id="1" />p>

<p class="poetry">You widen my path;<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">my feet<n id="2" /> do not slip.p>

<p class="poetry">They are ready to devour me;<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">they say, &#8220;Aha! Aha! We&#8217;ve got you!&#8221;<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">A person&#8217;s gift<n id="1" /> makes room for him,p> <p class="poetry">and leads him<n id="2" /> before important people.p>

<t /><p class="poetry">Of Gad he said:p> <p class="poetry">Blessed be the one who enlarges Gad.p> <p class="poetry">Like a lioness he will dwell;p> <p class="poetry">he will tear at an arm &#8211; indeed, a scalp.<n id="1" />p>

<p class="poetry">I am the <sc>Lordsc>, your God,p> <p class="poetry">the one who brought you out of the land of Egypt.p> <p class="poetry">Open your mouth wide and I will fill it!&#8217;p>

<p class="poetry">Make your tent larger,p> <p class="poetry">stretch your tent curtains farther out!<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">Spare no effort,p> <p class="poetry">lengthen your ropes,p> <p class="poetry">and pound your stakes deep.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">Shave your heads bald as you mourn for the children you love;<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">shave your foreheads as bald<n id="2" /> as an eagle,<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">for they are taken from you into exile.p>

If the <sc>Lordsc> your God enlarges your borders as he promised your ancestors<n id="1" /> and gives you all the land he pledged to them,<n id="2" />

<t /><p class="bodytext">Hannah prayed,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">&#8220;My heart rejoices in the <sc>Lordsc>;p> <p class="poetry">my horn<n id="2" /> is exalted high because of the <sc>Lordsc>.p> <p class="poetry">I loudly denounce<n id="3" /> my enemies,p> <p class="poetry">for I am happy that you delivered me.<n id="4" />p>

<t /><p class="psasuper">For the music director, to be accompanied by stringed instruments; a psalm of David.p> <p class="poetry">When I call out, answer me,p> <p class="poetry">O God who vindicates me!<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">Though I am hemmed in, you will lead me into a wide, open place.<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">Have mercy on me<n id="4" /> and respond to<n id="5" /> my prayer!p>

<p class="poetry">So Death<n id="1" /> will open up its throat,p> <p class="poetry">and open wide its mouth;<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">Zion&#8217;s dignitaries and masses will descend into it,p> <p class="poetry">including those who revel and celebrate within her.<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">At whom are you laughing?p> <p class="poetry">At whom are you opening your mouthp> <p class="poetry">and sticking out your tongue?p> <p class="poetry">You are the children of rebels,p> <p class="poetry">the offspring of liars,<n id="1" />p>

<p class="poetry">Behind the door and doorpost you put your symbols.<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">Indeed,<n id="2" /> you depart from me<n id="3" /> and go upp> <p class="poetry">and invite them into bed with you.<n id="4" />p> <p class="poetry">You purchase favors from them,<n id="5" />p> <p class="poetry">you love their bed,p> <p class="poetry">and gaze longingly<n id="6" /> on their genitals.<n id="7" />p>

<p class="poetry">Then you will look and smile,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">you will be excited and your heart will swell with pride.<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">For the riches of distant lands<n id="3" /> will belong to youp> <p class="poetry">and the wealth of nations will come to you.p>

Then he moved away from there and dug another well. They did not quarrel over it, so Isaac<n id="1" /> named it<n id="2" /> Rehoboth,<n id="3" /> saying, &#8220;For now the <sc>Lordsc> has made room for us, and we will prosper in the land.&#8221;p>

For I will drive out<n id="1" /> the nations before you and enlarge your borders; no one will covet<n id="2" /> your land when you go up<n id="3" /> to appear before the <sc>Lordsc> your God three times<n id="4" /> in the year.p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">When the <sc>Lordsc> your God extends your borders as he said he would do and you say, &#8220;I want to eat meat just as I please,&#8221;<n id="1" /> you may do so as you wish.<n id="2" />