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For he has not despised nor been angry at the supplication of the poor; nor turned away his face from me; but when I cried to him, he heard me.

But I have walked in my innocence: redeem me, and have mercy upon me.

For my father and my mother have forsaken me, but the Lord has taken me to himself.

Draw not away my soul with sinners, and destroy me not with the workers of iniquity, who speak peace with their neighbours, but evils are in their hearts.

For anger is in his wrath, but life in his favour: weeping shall tarry for the evening, but joy shall be in the morning.

O Lord, in thy good pleasure thou didst add strength to my beauty: but thou didst turn away thy face, and I was troubled.

Thou has hated them that idly persist in vanities: but I have hoped in the Lord.

I became a reproach among all mine enemies, but exceedingly so to my neighbours, and a fear to mine acquaintance: they that saw me without fled from me.

But I hoped in thee, O Lord: I said, Thou art my God.

But I said in my extreme fear, I am cast out from the sight of thine eyes: therefore thou didst hearken, O Lord, to the voice of my supplication when I cried to thee.

Be ye not as horse and mule, which have no understanding; but thou must constrain their jaws with bit and curb, lest they should come nigh to thee.

Many are the scourges of the sinner: but him that hopes in the Lord mercy shall compass about.

But the counsel of the Lord endures for ever, the thoughts of his heart from generation to generation.

The rich have become poor and hungry: but they that seek the Lord diligently shall not want any good thing. Pause.

but the face of the Lord is against them that do evil, to destroy their memorial from the earth. The righteous cried, and the Lord hearkened to them,

Many are the afflictions of the righteous: but out of them all Lord will deliver them.

But my soul shall exult in the Lord: it shall delight in his salvation.

But I, when they troubled me, put on sackcloth, and humbled my soul with fasting: and my prayer shall return to my own bosom.

Yet they rejoiced against me, and plagues were plentifully brought against me, and I knew it not: they were scattered, but repented not.

For to me they spoke peaceably, but imagined deceits in their anger.