But as for me, my feet had almost stumbled, my steps had nearly slipped.
When I thought, “My foot slips,” your steadfast love, O Lord, held me up.
“He will guard the feet of his faithful ones, but the wicked shall be cut off in darkness, for not by might shall a man prevail.
For you have delivered my soul from death, my eyes from tears, my feet from stumbling;
For I said, “Only let them not rejoice over me, who boast against me when my foot slips!”
My steps have held fast to your paths; my feet have not slipped.
As for me, I shall behold your face in righteousness; when I awake, I shall be satisfied with your likeness.
but I see in my members another law waging war against the law of my mind and making me captive to the law of sin that dwells in my members. Wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death?
But I, through the abundance of your steadfast love, will enter your house. I will bow down toward your holy temple in the fear of you.
As for me, is my complaint against man? Why should I not be impatient?
In the thought of one who is at ease there is contempt for misfortune; it is ready for those whose feet slip.
David said to Solomon, “My son, I had it in my heart to build a house to the name of the Lord my God.
Moreover, as for me, far be it from me that I should sin against the Lord by ceasing to pray for you, and I will instruct you in the good and the right way.
And if it is evil in your eyes to serve the Lord, choose this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your fathers served in the region beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you dwell. But as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.”
But I, when they were sick— I wore sackcloth; I afflicted myself with fasting; I prayed with head bowed on my chest.
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