For seeing you have instructed many, and have strengthened the hands of the weak one,

and have supported the failing with words, and have imparted courage to feeble knees.

Let the grave be my city, upon the walls of which I have leaped: I will not shrink from it, for I have not denied the holy words of my God.

Thus says the Lord, With a strong hand they revolt from the course of the way of this people, saying,

but there is a spirit in mortals, and the inspiration of the Almighty is that which teaches.

Wherefore I said, Hear me, and I will tell you what I know.

Behold, I have shown you the statutes and judgments as the Lord has commanded me, that you should do so in the land into which you go, to inherit it.

O God, You have taught me from my youth, and until now will I declare Your wonders;

how I kept back nothing that was profitable, but declared it to you, teaching you publicly and from house to house,