O go not far from me then, for trouble is hard at hand, and here is none to help me.

My soul shall make her boast in the LORD: the humble shall hear thereof, and be glad.

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

The king's daughter is all glorious within, her clothing is of wrought gold.

She shall be brought unto the king in raiment of needlework; the virgins that be her fellows shall bear her company, and shall be brought unto thee.

God is in the midst of her, therefore shall she not be removed; for God helpeth her, and that right early.

God is well known in her palaces, that he is the defense of the same.

Fear came there upon them, and sorrow as upon a woman in her travail.

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

Mark well her bulwarks, set up her houses, that it may be told them that come after.

Wickedness is therein; deceit and guile go not out of her streets.

They are as venomous as the poison of a serpent, even like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ears,

Let them run here and there for meat, and grudge when they have not enough.

Thou waterest her furrows, thou breakest the hard clots thereof, thou makest it soft with the drops of rain, and blessest the increase of it.

Then shall the earth bring forth her increase; and God, even our own God, shall give us his blessing.

Though ye have lain among the sheep-folds, yet shall ye be as the wings of a dove that is covered with silver wings, and her feathers like gold.

The princes shall come out of Egypt; the Ethiopians land shall stretch out her hands unto God.

Let not the water-flood drown me, neither let the deep swallow me up; and let not the pit shut her mouth upon me.

Here end the prayers of David, the son of Jesse.

The earth is weak, and all that is therein; but I bear up her pillars. Selah.

She stretched out her branches unto the sea, and her boughs unto the river.

Why hast thou then broken down her hedge, that all they which go by, pluck off her grapes?

For the sparrow hath found her a house, and the swallow a nest, where she may lay her young; even thine altars, O LORD of hosts, my King, and my God.

Yea, the LORD shall show loving-kindness, and our land shall give her increase.

{A Psalm and song of the sons of Korah} Her foundations are upon the holy hills;

And of Zion it shall be reported, that he was born in her; and the most high shall establish her.

Arise, therefore, and have mercy upon Zion, for it is time to have mercy upon her; yea, the time is come.

And why? Thy servants think upon her stones, and it pitieth them to see her in the dust.

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

For the LORD hath chosen Zion, to be a habitation for himself; he hath longed for her.

"This shall be my rest; here will I dwell, for I have a delight therein.

I will bless her victuals with increase, and will satisfy her poor with bread.

I will deck her priests with health, and her saints shall rejoice and sing.

If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my righthand forget her cunning.