Let my soul live and praise you, and let your rules help me.
Incline your ear, and come to me; hear, that your soul may live; and I will make with you an everlasting covenant, my steadfast, sure love for David.
Deliver me from bloodguiltiness, O God, O God of my salvation, and my tongue will sing aloud of your righteousness. O Lord, open my lips, and my mouth will declare your praise.
The living, the living, he thanks you, as I do this day; the father makes known to the children your faithfulness.
In the path of your judgments, O Lord, we wait for you; your name and remembrance are the desire of our soul. My soul yearns for you in the night; my spirit within me earnestly seeks you. For when your judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world learn righteousness.
The Lord has disciplined me severely, but he has not given me over to death. Open to me the gates of righteousness, that I may enter through them and give thanks to the Lord.
But if we judged ourselves truly, we would not be judged. But when we are judged by the Lord, we are disciplined so that we may not be condemned along with the world.
And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose.
“What profit is there in my death, if I go down to the pit? Will the dust praise you? Will it tell of your faithfulness?
For this light momentary affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison,
I know, O Lord, that your rules are righteous, and that in faithfulness you have afflicted me.
Be gracious to me, O Lord! See my affliction from those who hate me, O you who lift me up from the gates of death, that I may recount all your praises, that in the gates of the daughter of Zion I may rejoice in your salvation.
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