4. And he shall be as the light of the morning, like the rising of the sun, A morning without clouds; When from the sunshine, after rain, The green grass springeth from the earth.
5. Although my house be not so before ·God Yet he hath made with me an everlasting covenant, Ordered in every way and sure; For this is all my salvation, and every desire, Although he make it not to grow.
6. But the sons of Belial are all of them as thorns thrust away, Because they cannot be taken with hands;
7. And the man that will touch them provideth himself with iron and the staff of a spear; And they shall be utterly burned with fire in their place.
8. These are the names of the mighty men whom David had: Joseb-Bassebeth, Tachkemonite the chief of the captains: he was Adino the Eznite; he fought against eight hundred, slain by him at one time.