Declaring righteous the wicked for a bribe, And the righteousness of the righteous They turn aside from him.

The path for the righteous is uprightness, O upright One, The path of the righteous Thou dost ponder.

The righteous hath perished, And there is none laying it to heart, And men of kindness are gathered, Without any considering that from the face of evil Gathered is the righteous one.

Then hath Jehovah prepared Over every fixed place of Mount Zion, And over her convocations, A cloud by day, and smoke, And the shining of a flaming fire by night, That, over all honour a safe-guard,