^{7 Ref} When I went forth to the city gate, When I prepared my seat in the street,

^{8 Ref} The young men saw me and hid themselves, The aged rose up and stood;

^{9 Ref} The princes refrained from talking, And laid their hand on their mouth;

^{10 Ref} The voice of the nobles was hushed, And their tongue stuck to the roof of their mouth.

^{11 Ref} For when the ear heard me, then it blessed me; And when the eye saw me, it commended me:

^{12 Ref} Because I delivered the poor who cried, And the fatherless also, who had none to help him.

^{13 Ref} The blessing of him who was ready to perish came on me, And I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.

^{14 Ref} I put on righteousness, and it clothed me. My justice was as a robe and a diadem.

^{15 Ref} I was eyes to the blind, And feet to the lame.

^{16 Ref} I was a father to the needy. The cause of him who I didn't know, I searched out.

^{17 Ref} I broke the jaws of the unrighteous, And plucked the prey out of his teeth.