18Have pity on the city of your sanctuary,
Jerusalem, the place of your rest.
19Fill Zion with the celebration of your wondrous deeds,
and your temple with your glory.
20Bear witness to those whom you createed in the beginning,
and fulfil the prophecies spoken in your name.
21Reward those who wait for you,
and let your prophets be found trustworthy.
22Hearken, O Lord, to the prayer of your servants,
according to the blessing of Aaron for your people,
and all who are on the earth will know that you are the Lord,
the God of the ages.
23The stomach will take any food,
yet one food is better than another.
24As the palate tastes the kinds of game,
so an intelligent mind detects false words.
25A perverse mind will cause grief,
but a man of experience will pay him back.
26A woman will accept any man,
but one daughter is better than another.
27A woman's beauty gladdens the countenance,
and surpasses every human desire.
28If kindness and humility mark her speech,
her husband is not like other men.
29He who acquires a wife gets his best possession,
a helper fit for him and a pillar of support.
30Where there is no fence, the property will be plundered;
and where there is no wife, a man will wander about and sigh.
31For who will trust a nimble robber
that skips from city to city?
So who will trust a man that has no home,
and lodges wherever night finds him?
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