²⁰ Come, My people, enter into thy inner chambers, And shut thy doors behind thee, Hide thyself shortly a moment till the indignation pass over.

⁴ With His pinion He covereth thee over, And under His wings thou dost trust, A shield and buckler `is' His truth.

⁵ For -- a moment `is' in His anger, Life `is' in His good-will, At even remaineth weeping, and at morn singing.

⁷ In a small moment I have forsaken thee, And in great mercies I do gather thee,

⁸ In overflowing wrath I hid my face `for' a moment from thee, And in kindness age-during I have loved thee, Said thy Redeemer -- Jehovah!

¹ He who is dwelling In the secret place of the Most High, In the shade of the Mighty lodgeth habitually,

⁸ Keep me as the apple, the daughter of the eye; In shadow of Thy wings thou dost hide me.

⁵ For He hideth me in a tabernacle in the day of evil, He hideth me in a secret place of His tent, On a rock he raiseth me up.

¹⁰ A tower of strength `is' the name of Jehovah, Into it the righteous runneth, and is set on high.

²⁵ For yet a very little, And the indignation hath been completed, And Mine anger by their wearing out.

¹⁶ And I put My words in thy mouth, And with the shadow of My hand have covered thee, To plant the heavens, and to found earth, And to say to Zion, `My people `art' thou.'

⁶ `But thou, when thou mayest pray, go into thy chamber, and having shut thy door, pray to thy Father who `is' in secret, and thy Father who is seeing in secret, shall reward thee manifestly.

¹⁷ for the momentary light matter of our tribulation, more and more exceedingly an age-during weight of glory doth work out for us --

³⁷ `Jerusalem, Jerusalem, that art killing the prophets, and stoning those sent unto thee, how often did I will to gather thy children together, as a hen doth gather her own chickens under the wings, and ye did not will.

¹⁶ it `is' ours, the land hath been given for an inheritance; therefore say: Thus said the Lord Jehovah: Because I put them afar off among nations, And because I scattered them through lands, I also am to them for a little sanctuary, In lands whither they have gone in.

⁷ Thou `art' a hiding-place for me, From distress Thou dost keep me, `With' songs of deliverance dost compass me. Selah.

²² and ye have taken a bunch of hyssop, and have dipped `it' in the blood which `is' in the basin, and have struck `it' on the lintel, and on the two side-posts, from the blood which `is' in the basin, and ye, ye go not out each from the opening of his house till morning.

²³ `And Jehovah hath passed on to smite the Egyptians, and hath seen the blood on the lintel, and on the two side-posts, and Jehovah hath passed over the opening, and doth not permit the destruction to come into your houses to smite.

¹⁶ and they that are coming in, male and female of all flesh, have come in as God hath commanded him, and Jehovah doth close `it' for him.

¹ And Jehovah saith to Noah, `Come in, thou and all thy house, unto the ark, for thee I have seen righteous before Me in this generation;

²⁰ Thou hast wrought for those trusting in Thee, Before sons of men. Thou hidest them in the secret place of Thy presence, From artifices of man, Thou concealest them in a tabernacle, From the strife of tongues.

¹ To the Overseer. -- `Destroy not.' -- A secret treasure of David, in his fleeing from the face of Saul into a cave. Favour me, O God, favour me, For in Thee is my soul trusting, And in the shadow of Thy wings I trust, Until the calamities pass over.

⁴ Attend unto Me, O My people, And, O My nation, unto Me give ear. For a law from Me goeth out, And My judgment to the light, Peoples I do cause to rest.

²³ But this thing I commanded them, saying: Hearken to My voice, And I have been to you for God, And ye -- ye are to Me for a people, And have walked in all the way that I command you, So that it is well for you.

¹⁴ And satisfied the soul of the priests `with' fatness, And My people with My goodness are satisfied, An affirmation of Jehovah.

¹⁸ And dwelt hath My people in a peaceful habitation, And in stedfast tabernacles, And in quiet resting-places.

¹⁹ And it hath hailed in the going down of the forest, And in the valley is the city low.

⁹ Deliver me from mine enemies, O Jehovah, Near Thee I am covered.