⁹ The voice of Jehovah maketh the hinds to calve, And strippeth the forests bare: And in his temple everything saith, Glory.

¹ Knowest thou the time when the wild goats of the rock bring forth? `Or' canst thou mark when the hinds do calve?

² Canst thou number the months that they fulfil? Or knowest thou the time when they bring forth?

³ They bow themselves, they bring forth their young, They cast out their pains.

⁴⁶ Son of man, set thy face toward the south, and drop `thy word' toward the south, and prophesy against the forest of the field in the South;

⁴⁷ and say to the forest of the South, Hear the word of Jehovah: Thus saith the Lord Jehovah, Behold, I will kindle a fire in thee, and it shall devour every green tree in thee, and every dry tree: the flaming flame shall not be quenched, and all faces from the south to the north shall be burnt thereby.

⁴⁸ And all flesh shall see that I, Jehovah, have kindled it; it shall not be quenched.

¹⁸ And he will consume the glory of his forest, and of his fruitful field, both soul and body: and it shall be as when a standard-bearer fainteth.

¹⁹ And the remnant of the trees of his forest shall be few, so that a child may write them.

¹⁸ For wickedness burneth as the fire; it devoureth the briers and thorns; yea, it kindleth in the thickets of the forest, and they roll upward in a column of smoke.

¹ Praise ye Jehovah. Praise ye the name of Jehovah; Praise `him', O ye servants of Jehovah,

² Ye that stand in the house of Jehovah, In the courts of the house of our God.

¹ Behold, bless ye Jehovah, all ye servants of Jehovah, That by night stand in the house of Jehovah.

² Lift up your hands to the sanctuary, And bless ye Jehovah.

² So have I looked upon thee in the sanctuary, To see thy power and thy glory.

⁹ We have thought on thy lovingkindness, O God, In the midst of thy temple.

² Therefore will we not fear, though the earth do change, And though the mountains be shaken into the heart of the seas;

³ Though the waters thereof roar and be troubled, Though the mountains tremble with the swelling thereof. Selah

⁴ There is a river, the streams whereof make glad the city of God, The holy place of the tabernacles of the Most High.

⁵ God is in the midst of her; she shall not be moved: God will help her, and that right early.

⁸ Jehovah, I love the habitation of thy house, And the place where thy glory dwelleth.