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My soul was crushed for the desire to thy judgments in all time.

This was done to me, because I kept Your Commandments.

I was humbled even greatly: O Jehovah, cause me to live according to thy word,

Sinners have put a net to take me; but I was true to your orders.

My flesh stood erect from thy fear, and I was afraid of thy judgments.


Be the guarantee for Your servant for good [as Judah was the guarantee for Benjamin];
Do not let the arrogant oppress me.

My mouth was open wide, waiting with great desire for your teachings.

Jerusalem was built as a city, joined to it together.


To which the [twelve] tribes go up, even the tribes of the Lord,
[As was decreed as] an ordinance for Israel,
To give thanks to the name of the Lord.

Much was our soul filled with it, a derision of those living at ease the contempt of the proud.

{A Song of degrees of David.} If it had not been the LORD who was on our side, now may Israel say;

Then they had swallowed us up quick, when their wrath was kindled against us:

Our soul as a bird hath escaped from a snare of fowlers, The snare was broken, and we have escaped.

Then was our mouth filled with laughter, and our tongue with singing: then said they among the heathen, The LORD hath done great things for them.

Great have been my troubles from the time when I was young (let Israel now say);

They are as grass of the roofs, That before it was drawn out withereth,

Song of ascensions to David. O Jehovah, my heart was not lifted up, and mine eyes were not exalted, and I went not in great things and in wonders above me.

The Lord has done whatever was pleasing to him, in heaven, and on the earth, in the seas and in all the deep waters.

It was the LORD who struck down the firstborn of Egypt, including both men and animals.

To him by whom the earth was stretched out over the waters: for his mercy is unchanging for ever.

for it was there that our captors asked us for songs and our torturers demanded joy from us, "Sing us one of the songs about Zion!"

I thank thee, in that fearfully was my being distinguished, Wonderful are thy works, and, mine own soul, is observing them intently!

Let the wicked fall together into their own nets, while I pass by. A contemplation by David, when he was in the cave. A Prayer.

{Maschil of David; A Prayer when he was in the cave.} I cried unto the LORD with my voice; with my voice unto the LORD did I make my supplication.

When my spirit was overwhelmed within me, then thou knewest my path. In the way wherein I walked have they privily laid a snare for me.

I looked on my right hand, and beheld, but there was no man that would know me: refuge failed me; no man cared for my soul.

Quickly answer me, O Jehovah: my spirit failed: thou wilt not hide thy face from me: I was made like those going down to the pit.

For gratuitously the net was spread in the eyes of all possessing a wing.

By his knowledge the deep was parted, and dew came dropping from the skies.

I did not give attention to the voice of my teachers, my ear was not turned to those who were guiding me!

He will die because there was no discipline; because of the greatness of his folly he will reel.

He was passing by the street near her corner, making his way along the road to her house


In the twilight, in the evening;
In the black and dark night.

Suddenly a woman came out to meet him! She was dressed like a prostitute and with secret intent.

She was full of loud words and ready to dally: whose feet could not abide in the house.

She took hold of him and kissed him. Her face was impudent, and she said to him,

I was due to offer peace offerings;
Today I have paid my vows.

When there were no depths, I was brought forth; when there were no fountains abounding with water.

Before the mountains were settled, before the hills was I brought forth:

The earth and all that is upon the earth was not yet made, no not the ground itself.

Rejoicing in his habitable earth; And my delight was with the sons of men.

The just one was delivered from straits, and the unjust will come in his stead.

The robberies of the ungodly shall be their own destruction; for they would not do the thing that was right.

They have stricken me, shalt thou say, and I was not sick; they have beaten me, and I felt it not: when shall I awake? I will seek it yet again.

And, lo, it was all grown over with thorns, and nettles had covered the face thereof, and the stone wall thereof was broken down.

The slothful one hid his hand in the dish; he was weary to turn it back to his mouth.

Revealed was the hay, and seen the tender grass, And gathered the herbs of mountains.

For three the earth was moved, and for four, which it shall not be able to lift up:

The words of Lemuel the king, - the strain which was taught him by his mother: -

She was as the ships of the merchant; from far off she will bring her bread.

What was, that shall be; and what was done, that shall be done: and not anything new under the sun.

Is there any thing whereof it may be said, See, this is new? it hath been already of old time, which was before us.

And I gave my heart to seek and to search out in wisdom concerning all which was done under the heavens: this evil business God gave to the sons of man to be occupied in it

It spake with my heart, saying, Behold, I was magnified, and added wisdom over all that were before me at Jerusalem: and my heart saw much of wisdom and knowledge.

And I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly: I perceived that this also was a striving after wind.

I said in my heart, Come now, I will prove thee with mirth; therefore enjoy pleasure: and, behold, this also was vanity.

I sought in mine heart to give myself unto wine, yet acquainting mine heart with wisdom; and to lay hold on folly, till I might see what was that good for the sons of men, which they should do under the heaven all the days of their life.

I acquired male slaves and female slaves, as well as children [born in my] house. I also had livestock, cattle, and flocks more than anyone who [was] before me in Jerusalem.

So I was great, and increased more than all that were before me in Jerusalem: also my wisdom remained with me.

And whatsoever mine eyes desired I kept not from them, I withheld not my heart from any joy; for my heart rejoiced in all my labour: and this was my portion of all my labour.

Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labour that I had laboured to do: and, behold, all was vanity and vexation of spirit, and there was no profit under the sun.

Then said I in my heart, As it happeneth to the fool, so it happeneth even to me; and why was I then more wise? Then I said in my heart, that this also is vanity.

So I hated life, because the work that is wrought under the sun was grievous unto me; for all is vanity and a striving after wind.

Therefore hated, I, all my toil, wherein I was toiling, under the sun, - in that I should leave it for the man who should come after me;

and who could know whether a, wise man, he would be or a foolish, and yet he would lord it over all my toil, wherein I had toiled and wherein I had acted wisely, under the sun, - even this, was vanity.

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