We wait for thy loving-kindness, O God, in the midst of thy temple.

O come hither and hearken, all ye that fear God; and I will tell you what he hath done for my soul.

O what great troubles and adversities hast thou showed me! And yet didst thou turn and refresh me; yea, and broughtest me from the deep of the earth again.

For who is he among the clouds, that may be compared unto the LORD? Yea what is he among the gods, that shall be like unto the LORD?

I eat ashes with my bread, and mingle my drink with weeping,

Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow.

He clothed himself with cursing like as with a raiment: yea it went into his bowels like water, and like oil into his bones.

The LORD preserveth thee from all evil; yea, it is the LORD that keepeth thy soul.

O let not mine heart be inclined to any evil thing, to be minded as the ungodly or wicked men; lest I eat of such things as please them.