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Even when I walk in a dark valley, I fear no evil because you are with me. Your rod and your staff, they comfort me.

because he has founded it on the seas, and has established it on the rivers.

Cause me to walk in your truth and teach me, because you are the God of my salvation. I await you all day long.

Remember your compassion, O Yahweh, and your acts of loyal love, because they are from of old.

Also, for the sake of your name, O Yahweh, forgive my sin, because it is great.

My eyes are continually toward Yahweh, because he will take my feet from the net.

Turn to me and have mercy on me because I am lonely and afflicted.

Protect my life and deliver me. Let me not be put to shame, because I take shelter in you.

Let integrity and uprightness preserve me, because I wait for you.

Of David. Judge me, O Yahweh, because I have walked in my integrity, and I have trusted Yahweh and not wavered.

Because your loyal love is before my eyes, and I walk about in your faithfulness.

Because he will hide me in his shelter in the day of trouble. He will conceal me in the hiding place of his tent. He will set me high upon a rock.

Teach me, O Yahweh, your way, and lead me on a level path because of my enemies.

Do not give me over to the desire of my enemies, because false witnesses have arisen against me, and each breathing out violence.

Because they do not regard the works of Yahweh, nor the work of his hands, he will destroy them and not rebuild them.

Blessed is Yahweh, because he has heard the voice of my supplications.

A psalm; a song for the dedication of the house. Of David. I will exalt you, O Yahweh, because you have drawn me up, and have not made my enemies rejoice over me.

I will exult and rejoice in your loyal love. Because you have seen my misery, you know the distresses of my life.

Be gracious to me, O Yahweh, because I have distress. My eye wastes away because of vexation, along with my soul and my body.

For my life is at an end with sorrow, and my years with sighing. My strength stumbles because of my iniquity, and my bones waste away.