ASV(i)
7 When I went forth to the gate unto the city,
When I prepared my seat in the street, 8 The young men saw me and hid themselves,
And the aged rose up and stood; 9 The princes refrained from talking,
And laid their hand on their mouth; 10 The voice of the nobels was hushed,
And their tongue cleaved to the roof of their mouth. 11 For when the ear heard [me], then it blessed me;
And when the eye saw [me], it gave witness unto me: 12 Because I delivered the poor that cried,
The fatherless also, that had none to help him. 13 The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me;
And I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy. 14 I put on righteousness, and it clothed me:
My justice was as a robe and a diadem. 15 I was eyes to the blind,
And feet was I to the lame. 16 I was a father to the needy:
And the cause of him that I knew not I searched out. 17 And I brake the jaws of the unrighteous,
And plucked the prey out of his teeth.
When I prepared my seat in the street, 8 The young men saw me and hid themselves,
And the aged rose up and stood; 9 The princes refrained from talking,
And laid their hand on their mouth; 10 The voice of the nobels was hushed,
And their tongue cleaved to the roof of their mouth. 11 For when the ear heard [me], then it blessed me;
And when the eye saw [me], it gave witness unto me: 12 Because I delivered the poor that cried,
The fatherless also, that had none to help him. 13 The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me;
And I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy. 14 I put on righteousness, and it clothed me:
My justice was as a robe and a diadem. 15 I was eyes to the blind,
And feet was I to the lame. 16 I was a father to the needy:
And the cause of him that I knew not I searched out. 17 And I brake the jaws of the unrighteous,
And plucked the prey out of his teeth.