The LORD also will be a defense for the oppressed, even a refuge in due time of trouble.

Thou shalt deliver me from the strivings of the people, and thou shalt make me the head of the Heathen. A people whom I have not known shall serve me. {TYNDALE: And thou deliveredst me from the dissension of my people, and keepest me to be a head over nations, for the people which I knew not became my servants.}

Let them be as the dust before the wind, and the angel of the LORD scattering them.

Thou makest us to be a byword among the Heathen, and that the people shake their heads at us.

And I said, "O that I had wings like a dove! For then would I flee away, and be at rest.

Yea, they lay hands upon such as be at peace with him, and so they break his covenant.

They shall fall into the sword, and be a portion for foxes.

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.

There shall be a heap of corn in the earth, high upon the hills; his fruit shall shake like Lebanon, and shall be green in the city like grass upon the earth.

And not to be as their forefathers, a faithless and stubborn generation, a generation that set not their heart aright, and whose spirit was not true toward God.

For one day in thy court is better than a thousand. I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of the ungodly.

But he had sent a man before them, even Joseph which was sold to be a bond servant,

He spread out a cloud to be a covering, and fire to give light in the night season.

Which maketh the barren woman to keep house, and to be a joyful mother of children. Praise the everlasting! Hallelujah!

Thy wife shall be as the fruitful vine upon the walls of thy house, thy children like the olive branches round about thy table.

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

Let my prayer be set forth in thy sight as the incense, and let the lifting up of my hands be an evening sacrifice.

that our sons may grow up as the young plants, and that our daughters may be as the polished corners of the temple;