⁷ So get up now, and go out and say some kind words to your servants; for, by the Lord, I give you my oath, that if you do not go out, not one of them will keep with you tonight; and that will be worse for you than all the evil which has overtaken you from your earliest years.

²⁸ A king's glory is in the number of his people: and for need of people a ruler may come to destruction.

³ Then his heart went out in love to Dinah, the daughter of Jacob, and he said comforting words to her.

⁴ O my God, take me out of the hand of the sinner, out of the hand of the evil and cruel man.

⁵ For you are my hope, O Lord God; I have had faith in you from the time when I was young.

⁶ You have been my support from the day of my birth; you took me out of my mother's body; my praise will be ever of you.

⁹ Do not give me up when I am old; be my help even when my strength is gone.

¹⁰ For my haters are waiting secretly for me; and those who are watching for my soul are banded together in their evil designs,

¹¹ Saying, God has given him up; go after him and take him, for he has no helper.

¹⁸ Now when I am old and grey-headed, O God, give me not up; till I have made clear your strength to this generation, and your power to all those to come.

¹⁹ Your righteousness, O God, is very high; you have done great things; O God, who is like you?

²⁰ You, who have sent great and bitter troubles on me, will give me life again, lifting me up from the deep waters of the underworld.

¹ <A Song of the going up.> Great have been my troubles from the time when I was young (let Israel now say);

² Great have been my troubles from the time when I was young, but my troubles have not overcome me.

¹⁵ Hate of work sends deep sleep on a man: and he who has no industry will go without food.

¹ Give comfort, give comfort, to my people, says your God.

¹⁴ For this cause I will make her come into the waste land and will say words of comfort to her.