Then the Levites, Jeshua, and Kadmiel, Bani, Hashabneiah, Sherebiah, Hodiah, Shebaniah, {\i and} Pethahiah, said, Stand up and bless Jehovah your God from everlasting to everlasting; and blessed be thy glorious name, which is exalted above all blessing and praise.
Worthy art thou, our Lord and our God, to receive the glory and the honor and the power: for thou didst create all things, and because of thy will they were, and were created.\par
{\b A Song; a Psalm of the sons of Korah.}\par\par\tab Great is Jehovah, and greatly to be praised,\par\tab In the city of our God, in his holy mountain.
Be thou to me a rock of habitation, whereunto I may continually resort:\par\tab Thou hast given commandment to save me;\par\tab For thou art my rock and my fortress.
O Jehovah, my strength, and my stronghold, and my refuge in the day of affliction, unto thee shall the nations come from the ends of the earth, and shall say, Our fathers have inherited nought but lies, {\i even} vanity and things wherein there is no profit.