7 The way of the righteous is level;
O Just One, you make smooth the path of the righteous.
8 In the path of your judgements,
O Lord, we wait for you;
your name and your renown
are the souls desire.
9 My soul yearns for you in the night,
my spirit within me earnestly seeks you.
For when your judgements are in the earth,
the inhabitants of the world learn righteousness.
16 O Lord, in distress they sought you,
they poured out a prayer*
when your chastening was on them.
17 Like a woman with child,
who writhes and cries out in her pangs
when she is near her time,
so were we because of you, O Lord;
18 we were with child, we writhed,
but we gave birth only to wind.
We have won no victories on earth,
and no one is born to inhabit the world.
19 Your dead shall live, their corpses* shall rise.
O dwellers in the dust, awake and sing for joy!
For your dew is a radiant dew,
and the earth will give birth to those long dead.*
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14 You will arise and have pity on Zion; ♦︎
it is time to have mercy upon her;
surely the time has come.
15 For your servants love her very stones ♦︎
and feel compassion for her dust.
16 Then shall the nations fear your name, O Lord, ♦︎
and all the kings of the earth your glory,
17 When the Lord has built up Zion ♦︎
and shown himself in glory;
18 When he has turned to the prayer of the destitute ♦︎
and has not despised their plea.
19 This shall be written for those that come after, ♦︎
and a people yet unborn shall praise the Lord.
20 For he has looked down from his holy height; ♦︎
from the heavens he beheld the earth,
21 That he might hear the sighings of the prisoner ♦︎
and set free those condemned to die;
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28 Come to me, all you that are weary and are carrying heavy burdens, and I will give you rest. 29Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me; for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. 30For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.
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