3. I clothe the heavens with blackness, and I make sackcloth their covering.
4. The Lord Jehovah hath given me the tongue of the instructed, that I should know how to succour by a word him that is weary. He wakeneth morning by morning, he wakeneth mine ear to hear as the instructed.
5. The Lord Jehovah hath opened mine ear, and I was not rebellious; I turned not away back.
6. I gave my back to smiters, and my cheeks to them that plucked off the hair; I hid not my face from shame and spitting.
7. But the Lord Jehovah will help me: therefore shall I not be confounded; therefore have I set my face like a flint, and I know that I shall not be ashamed.
8. He is near that justifieth me: who will contend with me? let us stand together; who is mine adverse party? let him draw near unto me.
9. Behold, the Lord Jehovah will help me; who is he that shall condemn me? Behold, they all shall grow old as a garment; the moth shall eat them up.