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For my life is spent with sorrow, and my years with sighing; my strength faileth through mine iniquity, and my bones are wasted.

For I have heard the slander of many—terror on every side—when they take counsel together against me: they plot to take away my life.

Jehovah, let me not be ashamed; for I have called upon thee: let the wicked be ashamed, let them be silent in Sheol.

[Oh] how great is thy goodness, which thou hast laid up for them that fear thee, [which] thou hast wrought for them that trust in thee, before the sons of men!

Blessed be Jehovah; for he hath shewn me wondrously his loving-kindness in a strong city.

As for me, I said in my haste, I am cut off from before thine eyes; nevertheless thou heardest the voice of my supplications when I cried unto thee.

For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me; my moisture was turned into the drought of summer. Selah.

For this shall every one that is godly pray unto thee at a time when thou mayest be found: surely in the floods of great waters they will not reach him.

Thou art a hiding-place for me; thou preservest me from trouble; thou dost encompass me with songs of deliverance. Selah.

Be ye not as a horse, as a mule, which have no understanding: whose trappings must be bit and bridle, for restraint, or they will not come unto thee.

Rejoice in Jehovah, and be glad, ye righteous; and shout for joy, all ye upright in heart.

Exult, ye righteous, in Jehovah: praise is comely for the upright.

For the word of Jehovah is right, and all his work is in faithfulness.

For *he* spoke, and it was [done]; *he* commanded, and it stood fast.

The counsel of Jehovah standeth for ever, the thoughts of his heart from generation to generation.

Blessed is the nation whose God is Jehovah, the people that he hath chosen for his inheritance!

The horse is a vain thing for safety; neither doth he deliver by his great power.

Our soul waiteth for Jehovah: he is our help and our shield.

For in him shall our heart rejoice, because we have confided in his holy name.

Fear Jehovah, ye his saints; for there is no want to them that fear him.