³ Jehovah causeth not the soul of the righteous to hunger, And the desire of the wicked He thrusteth away.

²⁵ Young I have been, I have also become old, And I have not seen the righteous forsaken, And his seed seeking bread.

⁹ Fear Jehovah, ye His holy ones, For there is no lack to those fearing Him.

¹⁰ Young lions have lacked and been hungry, And those seeking Jehovah lack not any good,

³⁰ `And if the herb of the field, that to-day is, and to-morrow is cast to the furnace, God doth so clothe -- not much more you, O ye of little faith?

³¹ therefore ye may not be anxious, saying, What may we eat? or, What may we drink? or, What may we put round?

³² for all these do the nations seek for, for your heavenly Father doth know that ye have need of all these;

³³ but seek ye first the reign of God and His righteousness, and all these shall be added to you.

⁵ Without covetousness the behaviour, being content with the things present, for He hath said, `No, I will not leave, no, nor forsake thee,'

⁶ so that we do boldly say, `The Lord `is' to me a helper, and I will not fear what man shall do to me.'

³¹ but, seek ye the reign of God, and all these things shall be added to you.

²² And he said unto his disciples, `Because of this, to you I say, Be not anxious for your life, what ye may eat; nor for the body, what ye may put on;

²³ the life is more than the nourishment, and the body than the clothing.

²⁴ `Consider the ravens, that they sow not, nor reap, to which there is no barn nor storehouse, and God doth nourish them; how much better are ye than the fowls?

¹⁸ Even their silver, even their gold, Is not able to deliver them in a day of the wrath of Jehovah, And in the fire of His jealousy consumed is the whole land, For only a hastened end doth He make Of all the inhabitants of the land!

⁶ Do not these -- all of them -- against him a simile taken up, And a moral of acute sayings for him, And say, Wo `to' him who is multiplying `what is' not his? Till when also is he multiplying to himself heavy pledges?

⁷ Do not thy usurers instantly rise up, And those shaking thee awake up, And thou hast been for a spoil to them?

⁸ Because thou hast spoiled many nations, Spoil thee do all the remnant of the peoples, Because of man's blood, and of violence `to' the land, `To' the city, and `to' all dwelling in it.

¹⁶ He high places doth inhabit, Strongholds of rock `are' his high tower, His bread hath been given, his waters stedfast.

³² In his wickedness is the wicked driven away, And trustful in his death `is' the righteous.

¹⁰ The wicked seeth, and hath been angry, His teeth he gnasheth, and hath melted, The desire of the wicked doth perish!

¹⁹ They are not ashamed in a time of evil, And in days of famine they are satisfied.

³ Trust in Jehovah, and do good, Dwell `in' the land, and enjoy faithfulness,

¹⁹ To deliver from death their soul, And to keep them alive in famine.

¹⁴ Thou hast seen, For Thou perverseness and anger beholdest; By giving into Thy hand, On Thee doth the afflicted leave `it', Of the fatherless Thou hast been an helper.

²⁸ Remove doth the increase of his house, Poured forth in a day of His anger.

²⁰ For he hath not known ease in his belly. With his desirable thing he delivereth not himself.

²¹ There is not a remnant to his food, Therefore his good doth not stay.

²² In the fulness of his sufficiency he is straitened. Every perverse hand doth meet him.

⁵ That the singing of the wicked `is' short, And the joy of the profane for a moment,

⁶ Though his excellency go up to the heavens, And his head against a cloud he strike --

⁷ As his own dung for ever he doth perish, His beholders say: `Where `is' he?'

⁸ As a dream he fleeth, and they find him not, And he is driven away as a vision of the night,

²⁰ In famine He hath redeemed thee from death, And in battle from the hands of the sword.