Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.

ashvaM na giirbhii rathya\M sudaanavo marmRjyante devayavaH

ayuyutsann anavadyasya senaam ayaatayanta kSitayo navagvaaH

But a lover of hospitality, a lover of good men, sober, just, holy, temperate;

aare te goghnam uta puuruSaghnaM kSayadviira sumnam asme te astu

toke vaa goSu tanaye yam apsu sa vrajaM dartaa paarye adha dyoH

When God arose to judgment, to save all the meek of the earth. Selah.

The simple inherit folly: but the prudent are crowned with knowledge.

kSodanta aapo riNate vanaany avosriyo vRSabhaH krandatu dyauH

And some of them would have taken him; but no man laid hands on him.

Shall not God search this out? for he knoweth the secrets of the heart.

puraa yat suuras tamaso apiites tam adrivaH phaligaM hetim asya

yuSmaakaM devaa avasaahani priya iijaanas tarati dviSaH

yasmin devaa manmani saMcaranty apiicye\ na vayam asya vidma

Then he questioned with him in many words; but he answered him nothing.

yaa gomatiir uSasaH sarvaviiraa vyuchanti daashuSe martyaaya

veSi hotram uta potraM yajatra bodhi prayantar janitar vasuunaam

aa kRSNa iiM juhuraaNo jigharti tvaco budhne rajaso asya yonau

kRSTiir anyo dhaarayati praviktaa vRtraaNy anyo apratiini hanti

nuunaM divo duhitaro vibhaatiir gaatuM kRNavann uSaso janaaya

And the son of Shammai was Maon: and Maon was the father of Bethzur.

His seed shall endure for ever, and his throne as the sun before me.

jahi pratiico anuucaH paraaco vishvaM satyaM kRNuhi viSTam astu

vanaspate shatavalsho vi roha sahasravalshaa vi vayaM ruhema