aa va indram puruhuutaM name giraa nemiM taSTeva sudrva\m

chardir yacha maghavadbhyash ca mahyaM ca yaavayaa didyum ebhyaH

vy e\tu didyud dviSaam ashevaa yuyota viSvag rapas tanuunaam

Therefore hear now this, thou afflicted, and drunken, but not with wine:

Remembering mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.

pacataa paktiir avase kRNudhvam it pRNann it pRNate mayaH

pari no heLo varuNasya vRjyaa uruM na indraH kRNavad ulokam

The sons of Merari by Jaaziah; Beno, and Shoham, and Zaccur, and Ibri.

taM shishiitaa suvRktibhis tveSaM satvaanam Rgmiyam

These be they who separate themselves, sensual, having not the Spirit.

atandro havyaa vahasi haviSkRta aad id deveSu raajasi

Then touched he their eyes, saying, According to your faith be it unto you.

To declare the name of the LORD in Zion, and his praise in Jerusalem;

Speak not in the ears of a fool: for he will despise the wisdom of thy words.

Unto thee, O my strength, will I sing: for God is my defence, and the God of my mercy.

yathaa saMvarte amado yathaa kRsha evaasme indra matsva

For they are life unto those that find them, and health to all their flesh.

devahitiM jugupur dvaadashasya RtuM naro na pra minanty ete

Of Shupham, the family of the Shuphamites: of Hupham, the family of the Huphamites.

Then said some of them of Jerusalem, Is not this he, whom they seek to kill?

sa tvaM no adya sumanaa ihaavitaa bhavaa vaajeSu santya

Blessed be God, which hath not turned away my prayer, nor his mercy from me.

indur vaajii pavate gonyoghaa indre somaH saha invan madaaya

Yea, they sacrificed their sons and their daughters unto devils,