² `For freeing freemen in Israel, For a people willingly offering themselves Bless ye Jehovah.

⁹ My heart `is' to the lawgivers of Israel, Who are offering themselves willingly among the people, Bless ye Jehovah!

³ Thy people `are' free-will gifts in the day of Thy strength, in the honours of holiness, From the womb, from the morning, Thou hast the dew of thy youth.

¹⁶ And at his hand `is' Amasiah son of Zichri, who is willingly offering himself to Jehovah, and with him two hundred chiefs, mighty of valour.

⁷ each one, according as he doth purpose in heart, not out of sorrow or out of necessity, for a cheerful giver doth God love,

¹³ for God it is who is working in you both to will and to work for His good pleasure.

¹⁴ and apart from thy mind I willed to do nothing, that as of necessity thy good deed may not be, but of willingness,

⁵ and I heard the messenger of the waters, saying, `righteous, O Lord, art Thou, who art, and who wast, and who shalt be, because these things Thou didst judge,

⁶ because blood of saints and prophets they did pour out, and blood to them Thou didst give to drink, for they are worthy;'

²⁰ `Be glad over her, O heaven, and ye holy apostles and prophets, because God did judge your judgment of her!'

² because true and righteous `are' His judgments, because He did judge the great whore who did corrupt the earth in her whoredom, and He did avenge the blood of His servants at her hand;'

¹² for if the willing mind is present, according to that which any one may have it is well-accepted, not according to that which he hath not;

¹⁷ for if willing I do this, I have a reward; and if unwillingly -- with a stewardship I have been entrusted!

⁶ The exaltation of God `is' in their throat, And a two-edged sword in their hand.

⁷ To do vengeance among nations, Punishments among the peoples.

⁸ To bind their kings with chains, And their honoured ones with fetters of iron,

⁹ To do among them the judgment written, An honour it `is' for all his saints. Praise ye Jah!

⁴⁷ Jehovah liveth, and blessed `is' my Rock, And exalted is my God -- The Rock of my salvation.

⁴⁸ God -- who is giving vengeance to me, And bringing down peoples under me,

² and the people give a blessing to all the men who are offering themselves willingly to dwell in Jerusalem.

⁴⁷ God -- who is giving vengeance to me, And He subdueth peoples under me,

¹¹ Rejoice doth Mount Zion, The daughters of Judah are joyful, For the sake of Thy judgments.

¹ God of vengeance -- Jehovah! God of vengeance, shine forth.

⁸ Zion hath heard and rejoiceth, And daughters of Judah are joyful, Because of Thy judgments, O Jehovah.

¹⁵ And shook out Pharaoh and his force in the sea of Suph, For to the age `is' His kindness.

¹⁹ Even Sihon king of the Amorite, For to the age `is' His kindness.

²⁰ And Og king of Bashan, For to the age `is' His kindness.

⁴³ Sing ye nations -- `with' his people, For the blood of His servants He avengeth, And vengeance He turneth back on His adversaries, And hath pardoned His land -- His people.'