¹¹ Let your search be for the Lord and for his strength; let your hearts ever be turned to him.

⁶ This is the generation of those whose hearts are turned to you, even to your face, O God of Jacob. (Selah.)

⁸ When you said, Make search for my face, my heart said to you, For your face will I make my search.

⁹ Let not your face be covered from me; do not put away your servant in wrath; you have been my help: do not give me up or take your support from me, O God of my salvation.

¹ <To the chief music-maker. With corded instruments. A Psalm. A Song.> May God give us mercy and blessing, and let the light of his face be shining on us; (Selah.)

⁴¹ Up! now, O Lord God, come back to your resting-place, you and the ark of your strength: let your priests, O Lord God, be clothed with salvation, and let your saints be glad in what is good.

⁶ There are numbers who say, Who will do us any good? the light of his face has gone from us.

² Before the Lord sends you violently away in flight like the waste from the grain; before the burning wrath of the Lord comes on you, before the day of the Lord's wrath comes on you.

³ Make search for the Lord, all you quiet ones of the earth, who have done what is right in his eyes; make search for righteousness and a quiet heart: it may be that you will be safely covered in the day of the Lord's wrath.

⁶¹ And he let his strength be taken prisoner, and gave his glory into the hands of his hater.

⁶ Go to the Lord for help so that you may have life; for fear that he may come like fire bursting out in the family of Joseph, causing destruction, and there will be no one to put it out in Beth-el.