Thou shalt shepherd them with a sceptre of iron, - as a potter's vessel, shalt thou dash them in pieces.

When I kept silence, my bones became worn out, Through my groaning all the day;

And, as for thy righteousness, O God, up on high, Wherein thou hast wrought great things, O God! who is like unto thee?

Remember thine own assembly thou didst acquire aforetime, Thou didst redeem the tribe of thine own inheritance, Mount Zion, wherein thou didst take up thy habitation.

Thou didst lead, like a flock, thy people, By the hand of Moses and Aaron.

Moses and Aaron, were among his priests, And, Samuel, was among them who were calling upon his Name, Who were calling upon Yahweh, and, he, used to answer them:

This sea here, is great and broad on both hands, - Wherein are creeping things, even without number, Living things, small with great;

They forced, into a fetter, his foot, Into the iron, entered his soul;

He sent Moses his servant, Aaron, whom he had chosen.

And they became jealous of Moses in the camp, - of Aaron the holy one of Yahweh;

The dwellers in darkness and death-shade, bound with oppression and iron;

For he brake in pieces the doors of bronze, And, the bars of iron, he hewed asunder.

O house of Aaron! trust ye in Yahweh, Their help and their shield, is he!

Yahweh, hath remembered us, he will bless - He will bless the house of Israel, He will bless the house of Aaron;

I pray you! let the house of Aaron, say, For, age-abiding, is his lovingkindness.

O house of Israel! bless Yahweh, O house of Aaron! bless Yahweh;

To bind their kings with fetters, and their honoured ones with iron bands: