²⁵ Your bars are^[a] iron and bronze,
    and as your days, so is^[b] your strength.”

⁶ Passing through the Valley of Baca,^[a]
they make it a spring.
The early rain covers it with blessings^[b] as well.

⁷ They go from strength to strength,
until each appears before God in Zion.^[a]