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Awake, O Lord, and attend to my judgment, even to my cause, my God and my Lord.

Judge me, O Lord, according to thy righteousness, O Lord my God; and let them not rejoice against me.

The transgressor, that he may sin, says within himself, that there is no fear of God before his eyes.

Thy righteousness is as the mountains of God, thy judgments are as a great deep: O Lord, thou wilt preserve men and beasts.

How hast thou multiplied thy mercy, O God! so the children of men shall trust in the shelter of thy wings.

The law of his God is in his heart; and his steps shall not slide.

For I hoped in thee, O Lord: thou wilt hear, O Lord my God.

Forsake me not, O Lord my God: depart not from me.

And he put a new song into my mouth, even a hymn to our God: many shall see it, and fear, and shall hope in the Lord.

O Lord my God, thou hast multiplied thy wonderful works, and in thy thoughts there is none who shall be likened to thee: I declared and spoke of them: they exceeded number.

I desired to do thy will, O my God, and thy law in the midst of mine heart.

But I am poor and needy; the Lord will take care of me; thou art my helper, and my defender, O my God, delay not.

Blessed be the Lord God of Israel from everlasting, and to everlasting. So be it, so be it.

As the hart earnestly desires the fountains of water, so my soul earnestly longs for thee, O God.

My soul has thirsted for the living God: when shall I come and appear before God?

My tears have been bread to me day and night, while they daily said to me, Where is thy God?

I remembered these things, and poured out my soul in me, for I will go to the place of thy wondrous tabernacle, even to the house of God, with a voice of exultation and thanksgiving and of the sound of those who keep festival.

Wherefore art thou very sad, O my soul? and wherefore dost thou trouble me? hope in God; for I will give thanks to him; he is the salvation of my countenance.

O my God, my soul has been troubled within me: therefore will I remember thee from the land of Jordan, and of the Ermonites, from the little hill.

By day the Lord will command his mercy, and manifest it by night: with me is prayer to the God of my life.