<p class="poetry">just as I was in my most productive time,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">when God&#8217;s intimate friendship<n id="2" /> was experienced in my tent,p>

<p class="poetry">a God who is honored<n id="1" /> in the great angelic assembly,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">and more awesome than<n id="3" /> all who surround him?p>

<t /><p class="poetry">Praise the <sc>Lordsc>!p> <p class="poetry">I will give thanks to the <sc>Lordsc> with my whole heart,p> <p class="poetry">in the assembly of the godly and the congregation.p>

<p class="poetry">I did not spend my time in the company of other people,p> <p class="poetry">laughing and having a good time.p> <p class="poetry">I stayed to myself because I felt obligated to you<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">and because I was filled with anger at what they had done.p>

<p class="poetry">Yet which of them has ever stood in the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s inner circle<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">so they<n id="2" /> could see and hear what he has to say?<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">Which of them have ever paid attention or listened to what he has said?p>

My hand will be against the prophets who see delusion and announce lying omens. They will not be included in the council<n id="1" /> of my people, nor be written in the registry<n id="2" /> of the house of Israel, nor enter the land of Israel. Then you will know that I am the sovereign <sc>Lordsc>.p>