Dried as a potsherd, is my strength, And, my tongue, is made to cleave to my gums, And, in the dust of death, wilt thou lay me.

The voice of Yahweh, is cleaving out flames of fire;

Thou, didst cleave asunder, in thy might, the sea, Thou didst break in pieces the heads of the Crocodiles, till they floated on the waters;

Thou, didst cleave open fountain and torrent, Thou, didst dry up rivers of steady flow:

He clave the sea, and caused them to pass through, And reared up the waters like a mound;

He used to cleave rocks in the desert, And let them drink as out of mighty deeps;

I will not set before mine eyes, a vile thing, - The doing of them who fall away, I hate, It shall not cleave unto me;

At the noise of my groaning, my bone, hath cleaved, to my flesh:

Let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth, if I do not remember thee! if I do not lift up Jerusalem above the head of mine own gladness.

Planting my feet like hinds' feet , yea, on my high places, he caused me to stand: