²⁴ And so, as your life was dear to me today, may my life be dear to the Lord, and may he make me free from all my troubles.

¹⁶ The angel who has been my saviour from all evil, send his blessing on these children: and let my name and the name of my fathers, Abraham and Isaac, be given to them; and let them become a great nation in the earth.

² And that we may be made free from foolish and evil men; for not all have faith.

⁹ Yes, we ourselves have had the answer of death in ourselves, so that our hope might not be in ourselves, but in God who is able to give life to the dead:

¹⁰ Who gave us salvation from so great a death: on whom we have put our hope that he will still go on to give us salvation;

²² Making strong the souls of the disciples, saying to them that they were to keep the faith, and that we have to go through troubles of all sorts to come into the kingdom of God.

² For as you have been judging, so you will be judged, and with your measure will it be measured to you.

⁷ Happy are those who have mercy: for they will be given mercy.

² He is my strength, and my Rock; my high tower, and my saviour; my keeper and my hope: he gives me authority over my people.

⁷ Because it has been my saviour from all my trouble; and my eyes have seen the punishment of my haters.

¹⁷ The cry of the upright comes before the Lord, and he takes them out of all their troubles.

¹⁸ The Lord is near the broken-hearted; he is the saviour of those whose spirits are crushed down.

⁴⁸ He makes me free from my haters; I am lifted up over those who come up against me: you have made me free from the violent man.

²⁵ On him who has mercy you will have mercy; to the upright you will be upright;

¹ <To the chief music-maker. Of the servant of the Lord, of David, who said the words of this song to the Lord on the day when the Lord made him free from the hand of all his haters, and from the hand of Saul; and he said,> I will give you my love, O Lord, my strength.

¹⁴ And I said to him, My lord, you have knowledge. And he said to me, These are they who came through the great testing, and their robes have been washed and made white in the blood of the Lamb.