Though an army should encamp against me, my heart shall not fear. Though war should rise against me, even then I will be confident.

O LORD, thou have brought up my soul from Sheol. Thou have kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit.

Why should I fear in the days of evil, when iniquity at my heels encompasses me about?

that he should still live always, that he should not see corruption.

For he established a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a law in Israel, which he commanded our fathers, that they should make them known to their sons,

that the generation to come might know, even the sons who should be born, who should arise and tell to their sons,

Why should the nations say, Where is their God? Let the avenging of the blood of thy servants which is shed be known among the nations in our sight.

Therefore I swore in my wrath that they should not enter into my rest.

who laid the foundations of the earth that it should not be moved forever.

Therefore he said that he would destroy them, had not Moses his chosen stood before him in the breach, to turn away his wrath, lest he should destroy.

Why should the nations say, Where is now their God?

Thou have commanded thy precepts, that we should observe them diligently.

Unless thy law had been my delight, I should then have perished in my affliction.

If thou, LORD, should note iniquities, O LORD, who could stand?

Cause me to hear thy loving kindness in the morning, for in thee do I trust. Cause me to know the way in which I should walk, for I lift up my soul to thee.