New English [1970], THE NEW ENGLISH BIBLE (OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS; CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS, CAMBRIDGE) [word count] [B16000].
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1 Have pity on us, O Lord, thou God of all; look down,
2 and send thy terror upon all nations.
3 Raise thy hand against the heathen,
and let them see thy power.
4 As they have seen thy holiness displayed among us,
so let us see thy greatness displayed among them.
5 Let them learn, as we also have learned,
that there is no God but only thou, O Lord.
6 Renew thy signs, repeat thy miracles,
win glory for thy hand, for thy right arm.
7 Rouse thy wrath, pour out thy fury,
destroy the adversary, wipe out the enemy.
8 Remember the day thou hast appointed and hasten it, note
and give men cause to recount thy wonders.
9 Let fiery anger devour the survivors,
and let the oppressors of thy people meet their doom.
10 Crush the heads of hostile princes,
who say, ‘There is no one to match us.’
11 Gather all the tribes of Jacob,
and grant them their inheritance, note as thou didst long ago.
12 Have pity, O Lord, on the people called by thy name,
Israel, whom thou hast named thy first-born.
13 Show mercy to the city of thy sanctuary,
Jerusalem, the city of thy rest.
14 Fill Zion with the praise of thy triumph;
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True piety and the mercy of God
fill thy people with thy glory.
15 Thou didst create them at the beginning; acknowledge them now
and fulfil the prophecies spoken in thy name.
16 Reward those who wait for thee;
prove thy prophets trustworthy.
17 Listen, O Lord, to the prayer of thy servants,
who claim Aaron's blessing upon thy people.
Let all who live on earth acknowledge
that thou art the Lord, the eternal God.
Man in society
18 All is food for the stomach,
but one food is better than another.
19 As the palate identifies game by its taste,
so the discerning mind detects lies.
20 A warped mind makes trouble,
but a man of experience can pay it back.
21 A woman will take any man for husband,
but a man may prefer one girl to another.
22 A woman's beauty makes a man happy,
and there is nothing he desires more.
23 If she has a kind and gentle tongue,
then her husband is luckier than most men.
24 The man who wins a wife has the beginnings of a fortune,
a helper to match his needs and a pillar to support him.
25 Where there is no hedge, property is plundered;
and where there is no wife, the wanderer sighs for a home.
26 Does anyone trust a roving bandit
who swoops on town after town?
No more will they trust a homeless man
who lodges wherever night overtakes him.
New English [1970], THE NEW ENGLISH BIBLE (OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS; CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS, CAMBRIDGE) [word count] [B16000].
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