For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and wither as the green herb.

The king's daughter is all glorious within the palace: her clothing is of woven gold.

She shall be brought unto the king in robes of needlework: the virgins, her companions that follow her, shall be brought unto you.

God is in the midst of her; she shall not be moved: God shall help her, and that right early.

God is known in her palaces for a refuge.

Walk about Zion, and go round about her: number the towers thereof.

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

Wickedness is in the midst thereof: deceit and guile depart not from her streets.

Then shall the earth yield her increase; and God, even our own God, shall bless us.

Though you have slept among the sheepfolds, yet shall you be as the wings of a dove covered with silver, and her feathers with yellow gold.

Princes shall come out of Egypt; Ethiopia shall soon stretch out her hands unto God.

Therefore his people return here: and waters of a full cup are wrung out to them.

Take a psalm, and bring here the timbrel, the pleasant harp with the psaltery.

Yea, the sparrow has found a house, and the swallow a nest for herself, where she may lay her young, even your altars, O LORD of hosts, my King, and my God.

And of Zion it shall be said, This and that man was born in her: and the highest himself shall establish her.

You shall arise, and have mercy upon Zion: for the time to favor her, yea, the set time, is come.

For your servants take pleasure in her stones, and favor the dust thereof.

He causes the grass to grow for the cattle, and herb for the service of man: that he may bring forth food out of the earth;

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

Behold, as the eyes of servants look unto the hand of their masters, and as the eyes of a maiden unto the hand of her mistress; so our eyes wait upon the LORD our God, until he has mercy upon us.

This is my rest forever: here will I dwell; for I have desired it.

I will abundantly bless her provision: I will satisfy her poor with bread.

I will also clothe her priests with salvation: and her saints shall shout aloud for joy.