⁹ Yahweh's voice makes the deer calve, And strips the forests bare. In his temple everything says, "Glory!"

¹ "Do you know the time when the mountain goats give birth? Do you watch when the doe bears fawns?

² Can you number the months that they fulfill? Or do you know the time when they give birth?

³ They bow themselves, they bring forth their young, They end their labor pains.

⁴⁶ Son of man, set your face toward the south, and drop [your word] toward the south, and prophesy against the forest of the field in the South;

⁴⁷ and tell the forest of the South, Hear the word of Yahweh: Thus says the Lord Yahweh, Behold, I will kindle a fire in you, and it shall devour every green tree in you, 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 All flesh shall see that I, Yahweh, have kindled it; it shall not be quenched.

¹⁸ 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 faints.

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

¹⁸ For wickedness burns as the fire; it devours the briers and thorns; yes, it kindles in the thickets of the forest, and they roll upward in a column of smoke.

¹ Praise Yah! Praise the name of Yahweh! Praise him, you servants of Yahweh,

² You who stand in the house of Yahweh, In the courts of our God's house.

¹ > Look! Praise Yahweh, all you servants of Yahweh, Who stand by night in Yahweh's house!

² Lift up your hands in the sanctuary. Praise Yahweh!

² So I have seen you in the sanctuary, Watching your power and your glory.

⁹ We have thought about your loving kindness, God, In the midst of your temple.

² Therefore we won't be afraid, though the earth changes, Though the mountains are shaken into the heart of the seas;

³ Though the waters of it roar and are troubled, Though the mountains tremble with their swelling. Selah.

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

⁵ God is in her midst. She shall not be moved. God will help her at dawn.

⁸ Yahweh, I love the habitation of your house, The place where your glory dwells.