<p class="poetry">Pay attention, all you people,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">both rich and poor!p>

<p class="poetry">They were hungry and thirsty;p> <p class="poetry">they fainted from exhaustion.<n id="1" />p>

<p class="poetry">Yes, I find delight in your rules;p> <p class="poetry">they give me guidance.<n id="1" />p>

<p class="poetry">even there your hand would guide me,p> <p class="poetry">your right hand would grab hold of me.p>

<p class="poetry">Yes, your servant finds moral guidance there;<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">those who obey them receive a rich reward.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">Certainly none who rely on you will be humiliated.p> <p class="poetry">Those who deal in treachery will be thwarted<n id="1" /> and humiliated.p>

<p class="poetry">Yes, the <sc>Lordsc> will bestow his good blessings,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">and our land will yield<n id="2" /> its crops.p>

<p class="poetry">where your ancestors challenged my authority,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">and tried my patience, even though they had seen my work.p>

<p class="poetry">They surrounded me, yes, they surrounded me.p> <p class="poetry">Indeed, in the name of the <sc>Lordsc> I pushed them away.p>

<p class="poetry">Though rulers plot and slander me,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">your servant meditates on your statutes.p>

<p class="poetry">&#8220;Since my youth they have often attacked me,p> <p class="poetry">but they have not defeated me.p>

<p class="poetry">Everyone rejects God;<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">they are all morally corrupt.<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">None of them does what is right,<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">not even one!p>

<p class="poetry">I was once young, now I am old.p> <p class="poetry">I have never seen a godly man abandoned,p> <p class="poetry">or his children<n id="1" /> forced to search for food.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">My heart beats quickly;p> <p class="poetry">my strength leaves me;p> <p class="poetry">I can hardly see.<n id="1" />p>

<p class="poetry">Even my close friend<n id="1" /> whom I trusted,p> <p class="poetry">he who shared meals with me, has turned against me.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">Yet<n id="1" /> God will make you a permanent heap of ruins.<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">He will scoop you up<n id="3" /> and remove you from your home;<n id="4" />p> <p class="poetry">he will uproot you from the land of the living. (Selah)p>

<p class="poetry">Everyone rejects God;<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">they are all morally corrupt.<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">None of them does what is right,<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">not even one!p>

<p class="poetry">I will express my thanks to you with a stringed instrument,p> <p class="poetry">praising<n id="1" /> your faithfulness, O my God!p> <p class="poetry">I will sing praises to you accompanied by a harp,p> <p class="poetry">O Holy One of Israel!<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">All day long my tongue will also tell about your justice,p> <p class="poetry">for those who want to harm me<n id="1" /> will be embarrassed and ashamed.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">Even Assyria has allied with them,p> <p class="poetry">lending its strength to the descendants of Lot.<n id="1" /> (Selah)p>