He that putteth not out his money to usury,
Nor taketh reward against the innocent.
The poem closes with a single vigourous line, summing up the character of the good citizen and answering the question of the first verse with a new emphasis of security and permanence:
He that doeth these things shall never be moved.
The Seventy-eighth, One Hundred and Fifth, and One Hundred and Sixth Psalms are lyrical ballads. They tell the story of Israel in Egypt, and in the Wilderness, and in Canaan, with swift, stirring phrases, and with splendid flashes of imagery. Take this passage from the Seventy-eighth Psalm as an example:
He clave the rocks in the wilderness,
And gave them drink out of the great depths.
He brought streams also out of the rock,
And caused waters to run down like rivers.
And they sinned yet more against him,