⁵ The kiln tests the potter’s vessels;
    so the test of a person is in his conversation.
⁶ Its fruit discloses the cultivation of a tree;
    so a person’s speech discloses the cultivation of his mind.
⁷ Do not praise anyone before he speaks,
    for this is the way people are tested.

⁸ If you pursue justice, you will attain it
    and wear it like a glorious robe.

² to declare your steadfast love in the morning,
    and your faithfulness by night,
³ to the music of the lute and the harp,
    to the melody of the lyre.

¹³ They are planted in the house of the Lord;
    they flourish in the courts of our God.
¹⁴ In old age they still produce fruit;
    they are always green and full of sap,

¹⁵ showing that the Lord is upright;
    he is my rock, and there is no unrighteousness in him.

“Death has been swallowed up in victory.”
⁵⁵ “Where, O death, is your victory?
    Where, O death, is your sting?”