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All this has come upon us, yet we have not forgotten you, or been false to your covenant.

yet you have broken us in the haunt of jackals, and covered us with deep darkness.

you let people ride over our heads; we went through fire and through water; yet you have brought us out to a spacious place.

But I will hope continually, and will praise you yet more and more.

Yet God my King is from of old, working salvation in the earth.

Your way was through the sea, your path, through the mighty waters; yet your footprints were unseen.

that the next generation might know them, the children yet unborn, and rise up and tell them to their children,

Yet they sinned still more against him, rebelling against the Most High in the desert.

Yet he commanded the skies above, and opened the doors of heaven;

Yet he, being compassionate, forgave their iniquity, and did not destroy them; often he restrained his anger, and did not stir up all his wrath.

Yet they tested the Most High God, and rebelled against him. They did not observe his decrees,

Let this be recorded for a generation to come, so that a people yet unborn may praise the Lord :

Yet he saved them for his name's sake, so that he might make known his mighty power.

For I have become like a wineskin in the smoke, yet I have not forgotten your statutes.

I am small and despised, yet I do not forget your precepts.

Yet you are near, O Lord , and all your commandments are true.

Many are my persecutors and my adversaries, yet I do not swerve from your decrees.

"often have they attacked me from my youth, yet they have not prevailed against me.

Your eyes beheld my unformed substance. In your book were written all the days that were formed for me, when none of them as yet existed.

yet they lie in wait—to kill themselves! and set an ambush—for their own lives!