for they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and fade as the green herb.

All glorious is the king's daughter within; her clothing is of wrought gold:

She shall be brought unto the king in raiment of embroidery; the virgins behind her, her companions, shall be brought in unto thee:

God is in the midst of her; she shall not be moved: God shall help her at the dawn of the morning.

God is known in her palaces as a high fortress.

Walk about Zion, and go round about her: count the towers thereof;

Mark ye well her bulwarks, consider her palaces: that ye may tell it to the generation following.

Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: they are like the deaf adder which stoppeth her ear;

The earth will yield her increase; God, our God, will bless us:

Though ye have lain among the sheepfolds, ye shall be as wings of a dove covered with silver, and her feathers with green gold.

Great ones shall come out of Egypt; Ethiopia shall quickly stretch out her hands unto God.

There shall be abundance of corn in the earth, upon the top of the mountains; the fruit thereof shall shake like Lebanon; and they of the city shall bloom like the herb of the earth.

Yea, the sparrow hath found a house, and the swallow a nest for herself, where she layeth her young, thine altars, O Jehovah of hosts, my King and my God.

And of Zion it shall be said, This one and that one was born in her; and the Most High himself shall establish her.

Thou wilt rise up, thou wilt have mercy upon Zion: for it is the time to be gracious to her, for the set time is come.

For thy servants take pleasure in her stones, and favour her dust.

He maketh the grass to grow for the cattle, and herb for the service of man; bringing forth bread out of the earth,

Where the birds make their nests; as for the stork, the fir trees are her house.

And they devoured every herb in their land, and ate up the fruit of their ground.

Behold, as the eyes of servants look unto the hand of their masters, as the eyes of a maiden unto the hand of her mistress, so our eyes are directed to Jehovah our God, until he be gracious unto us.

Jerusalem! mountains are round about her, and Jehovah is round about his people, from henceforth and for evermore.

This is my rest for ever; here will I dwell, for I have desired it.

I will abundantly bless her provision; I will satisfy her needy ones with bread;

And I will clothe her priests with salvation, and her saints shall shout aloud for joy.