from the end of the earth I call to you when my heart is faint. Lead me to the rock that is higher than I,
The Lord is my rock and my fortress and my deliverer, my God, my rock, in whom I take refuge, my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold.
If I take the wings of the morning and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea, even there your hand shall lead me, and your right hand shall hold me.
Each will be like a hiding place from the wind, a shelter from the storm, like streams of water in a dry place, like the shade of a great rock in a weary land.
He only is my rock and my salvation, my fortress; I shall not be shaken.
But from there you will seek the Lord your God and you will find him, if you search after him with all your heart and with all your soul.
When I remember God, I moan; when I meditate, my spirit faints. Selah
He alone is my rock and my salvation, my fortress; I shall not be greatly shaken.
The Lord lives, and blessed be my rock, and exalted be the God of my salvation—
For he will hide me in his shelter in the day of trouble; he will conceal me under the cover of his tent; he will lift me high upon a rock.
When my spirit faints within me, you know my way! In the path where I walk they have hidden a trap for me.
saying, “I called out to the Lord, out of my distress, and he answered me; out of the belly of Sheol I cried, and you heard my voice. For you cast me into the deep, into the heart of the seas, and the flood surrounded me; all your waves and your billows passed over me. Then I said, ‘I am driven away from your sight; yet I shall again look upon your holy temple.’
He drew me up from the pit of destruction, out of the miry bog, and set my feet upon a rock, making my steps secure.
“O afflicted one, storm-tossed and not comforted, behold, I will set your stones in antimony, and lay your foundations with sapphires.
Fear and trembling come upon me, and horror overwhelms me.
Therefore my spirit faints within me; my heart within me is appalled.
Why are you cast down, O my soul, and why are you in turmoil within me? Hope in God; for I shall again praise him, my salvation and my God.
and my God. My soul is cast down within me; therefore I remember you from the land of Jordan and of Hermon, from Mount Mizar.
And being in agony he prayed more earnestly; and his sweat became like great drops of blood falling down to the ground.
And he took with him Peter and James and John, and began to be greatly distressed and troubled. And he said to them, “My soul is very sorrowful, even to death. Remain here and watch.”
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