⁹ At the voice of the Lord the roes give birth, the leaves are taken from the trees: in his Temple everything says, Glory.

¹ Do you go after food for the she-lion, or get meat so that the young lions may have enough,

² When they are stretched out in their holes, and are waiting in the brushwood?

³ Who gives in the evening the meat he is searching for, when his young ones are crying to God; when the young lions with loud noise go wandering after their food?

⁴⁶ Son of man, let your face be turned to the south, let your words be dropped to the south, and be a prophet against the woodland of the South;

⁴⁷ And say to the woodland of the South, Give ear to the words of the Lord: this is what the Lord has said: See, I will have a fire lighted in you, for the destruction of every green tree in you and every dry tree: the flaming flame will not be put out, and all faces from the south to the north will be burned by it.

⁴⁸ And all flesh will see that I the Lord have had it lighted: it will not be put out.

¹⁸ And he will put an end to the glory of his woods and of his planted fields, soul and body together; and it will be as when a man is wasted by disease.

¹⁹ And the rest of the trees of his wood will be small in number, so that a child may put them down in writing.

¹⁸ For evil was burning like a fire; the blackberries and thorns were burned up; the thick woods took fire, rolling up in dark clouds of smoke.

¹ Let the Lord be praised. O you servants of the Lord, give praise to the name of the Lord.

² You who are in the house of the Lord, and in the open spaces of the house of our God,

¹ <A Song of the going up.> Give praise to the Lord, all you servants of the Lord, who take your places in the house of the Lord by night.

² Give praise to the Lord, lifting up your hands in his holy place.

² To see your power and your glory, as I have seen you in the holy place.

⁹ Our thoughts were of your mercy, O God, while we were in your Temple.

² For this cause we will have no fear, even though the earth is changed, and though the mountains are moved in the heart of the sea;

³ Though its waters are sounding and troubled, and though the mountains are shaking with their violent motion. (Selah.)

⁴ There is a river whose streams make glad the resting-place of God, the holy place of the tents of the Most High.

⁵ God has taken his place in her; she will not be moved: he will come to her help at the dawn of morning.

⁸ Lord, your house has been dear to me, and the resting-place of your glory.