<p class="poetry">Our cattle will be weighted down with produce.<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">No one will break through our walls,p> <p class="poetry">no one will be taken captive,p> <p class="poetry">and there will be no terrified cries in our city squares.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">None can compare to you among the gods, O Lord!p> <p class="poetry">Your exploits are incomparable!<n id="1" />p>

<p class="poetry">He ordered locusts to come,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">innumerable grasshoppers.p>

<p class="poetry">He brought his people<n id="1" /> out enriched<n id="2" /> with silver and gold;p> <p class="poetry">none of his tribes stumbled.p>

<p class="poetry">So he used suffering to humble them;<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">they stumbled and no one helped them up.p>

<p class="poetry">Otherwise they will rip<n id="1" /> me<n id="2" /> to shreds like a lion;p> <p class="poetry">they will tear me to bits and no one will be able to rescue me.<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">They cry out, but there is no one to help them;<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">they cry out to the <sc>Lordsc>,<n id="2" /> but he does not answer them.p>

<p class="poetry">There is no actual speech or word,p> <p class="poetry">nor is its<n id="1" /> voice literally heard.p>

<p class="poetry">Evil men will soon disappear;<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">you will stare at the spot where they once were, but they will be gone.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">For I am overcome with shame<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">and my whole body is sick.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">For he will rescue the needy<n id="1" /> when they cry out for help,p> <p class="poetry">and the oppressed<n id="2" /> who have no defender.p>

<p class="poetry">They have made their blood flow like waterp> <p class="poetry">all around Jerusalem, and there is no one to bury them.<n id="1" />p>

<p class="poetry">Those who love your law are completely secure;<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">nothing causes them to stumble.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">It emerges from the distant horizon,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">and goes from one end of the sky to the other;<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">nothing can escape<n id="3" /> its heat.p>

<p class="poetry">How blessed is the one<n id="1" /> whose wrongdoing the <sc>Lordsc> does not punish,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">in whose spirit there is no deceit.<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">I am like a man who cannot hearp> <p class="poetry">and is incapable of arguing his defense.<n id="1" />p>

<p class="poetry">Carefully consider this, you who reject God!<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">Otherwise I will rip you to shreds<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">and no one will be able to rescue you.p>

<p class="poetry">I sink into the deep mirep> <p class="poetry">where there is no solid ground;<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">I am in<n id="2" /> deep water,p> <p class="poetry">and the current overpowers me.p>

<p class="poetry">Their insults are painful<n id="1" /> and make me lose heart;<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">I look<n id="3" /> for sympathy, but receive none,<n id="4" />p> <p class="poetry">for comforters, but find none.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>