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Guide me in your truth, and teach me; For you are the God of my salvation; For you I wait all the day.

Remember, O Yahweh, your tender mercies and your loving-kindness; For they have been ever of old.

Don't remember the sins of my youth, nor my transgressions: According to your loving-kindness remember me, For your goodness' sake, O Yahweh.

For your name's sake, O Yahweh, Pardon my iniquity, for it is great.

My eyes are ever toward Yahweh; For he will pluck my feet out of the net.

Turn to me, and have mercy on me; For I am desolate and afflicted.

Consider my enemies, for they are many; And they hate me with cruel hatred.

Oh keep my soul, and deliver me: Don't let me be put to shame, for I take refuge in you.

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

[A Psalm] of David. Judge me, O Yahweh, for I have walked in my integrity: I have trusted also in Yahweh without wavering.

For your loving-kindness is before my eyes; And I have walked in your truth.

But as for me, I will walk in my integrity: Redeem me, and be merciful to me.

For in the day of trouble he will keep me secretly in his pavilion: In the covert of his tabernacle he will hide me; He will lift me up on a rock.

Don't deliver me over to the will of my adversaries: For false witnesses have risen up against me, And such as breathe out cruelty.

Wait for Yahweh: Be strong, and let your heart take courage; Yes, wait for Yahweh.

A Psalm; a Song at the Dedication of the House. [A Psalm] of David. I will extol you, O Yahweh; for you have raised me up, And have not made my foes to rejoice over me.

For his anger is but for a moment; His favor is for a lifetime: Weeping may spend the night, But joy [comes] in the morning.

As for me, I said in my prosperity, I shall not be moved-forever.

To you, O Yahweh, I will cry; And to the Lord I will plead for mercy:

You have turned for me my mourning into dancing; You have loosed my sackcloth, and girded me with gladness;