From the days of your fathers you have turned aside from my statutes and have not kept them. Return to me, and I will return to you, says the LORD of hosts. But you say, 'How shall we return?'

Deliver

Arise, O LORD! Confront him, subdue him! Deliver my soul from the wicked by your sword,

Deliver my soul from the sword, my precious life from the power of the dog!

For great is your steadfast love toward me; you have delivered my soul from the depths of Sheol.

Then I called on the name of the LORD: "O LORD, I pray, deliver my soul!"

Deliver me, O LORD, from lying lips, from a deceitful tongue.

The LORD will keep you from all evil; he will keep your life.

Behold, it was for my welfare that I had great bitterness; but in love you have delivered my life from the pit of destruction, for you have cast all my sins behind your back.

For

Remember not the sins of my youth or my transgressions; according to your steadfast love remember me, for the sake of your goodness, O LORD!

But as for me, my prayer is to you, O LORD. At an acceptable time, O God, in the abundance of your steadfast love answer me in your saving faithfulness.

Do not remember against us our former iniquities; let your compassion come speedily to meet us, for we are brought very low.

O my God, incline your ear and hear. Open your eyes and see our desolations, and the city that is called by your name. For we do not present our pleas before you because of our righteousness, but because of your great mercy.

to the praise of his glorious grace, with which he has blessed us in the Beloved.

so that in the coming ages he might show the immeasurable riches of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus.

General references

I said, I shall not see the LORD, the LORDin the land of the living; I shall look on man no more among the inhabitants of the world.