Even from the days of your fathers you have gone away from my ordinances, and have not kept them. Return unto me, and I will return unto you, says the LORD of hosts. But you say, How shall we return?

Deliver

Arise, O LORD, confront him, cast him down: deliver my soul from the wicked, by your sword:

Deliver my soul from the sword; my life from the power of the dog.

For great is your mercy toward me: and you have delivered my soul from the depths of sheol.

Then called I upon the name of the LORD; O LORD, I beseech you, deliver my soul.

Deliver my soul, O LORD, from lying lips, and from a deceitful tongue.

The LORD shall preserve you from all evil: he shall preserve your soul.

Behold, for my peace I had great bitterness: but you have in love to my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption: for you have cast all my sins behind your back.

For

Remember not the sins of my youth, nor my transgressions: according to your mercy remember me for your goodness' sake, O LORD.

But as for me, my prayer is unto you, O LORD, in an acceptable time: O God, in the multitude of your mercy hear me, in the truth of your salvation.

O remember not against us former iniquities: let your tender mercies speedily precede us: for we are brought very low.

O my God, incline your ear, and hear; open your eyes, and behold our desolations, and the city which is called by your name: for we do not present our supplications before you for our righteousness, but for your great mercies.

To the praise of the glory of his grace, in which he has made us accepted in the beloved.

That in the ages to come he might show the exceeding riches of his grace in his kindness toward us through Christ Jesus.

General references

I said, I shall not see the LORD, even the LORD, in the land of the living: I shall behold man no more with the inhabitants of the world.