² O Lord, have mercy on us; for we have been waiting for your help: be our strength every morning, our salvation in time of trouble.

⁹ And in that day it will be said, See, this is our God; we have been waiting for him, and he will be our saviour: this is the Lord in whom is our hope; we will be glad and have delight in his salvation.

¹⁸ For this cause the Lord will be waiting, so that he may be kind to you; and he will be lifted up, so that he may have mercy on you; for the Lord is a God of righteousness: there is a blessing on all whose hope is in him.

¹⁹ O people, living in Zion, at Jerusalem, your weeping will be ended; he will certainly have mercy on you at the sound of your cry; when it comes to his ear, he will give you an answer.

⁸ We have been waiting for you, O Lord; the desire of our soul is for the memory of your name.

⁴ For you have been a strong place for the poor and the crushed in their trouble, a safe place from the storm, a shade from the heat, when the wrath of the cruel ones is like a winter storm.

¹⁶ Lord, in trouble our eyes have been turned to you, we sent up a prayer when your punishment was on us.

¹⁰ See, the Lord God will come as a strong one, ruling in power: see, those made free by him are with him, and those whom he has made safe go before him.

¹⁶ And he saw that there was no man, and was surprised that there was no one to take up their cause: so his arm gave salvation, and he made righteousness his support.

²⁷ Who say to a tree, You are my father; and to a stone, You have given me life: for their backs have been turned to me, not their faces: but in the time of their trouble they will say, Up! and be our saviour.

²⁸ But where are the gods you have made for yourselves? let them come, if they are able to give you salvation in the time of your trouble: for the number of your gods is as the number of your towns, O Judah.

⁸ O you hope of Israel, its saviour in time of trouble, why are you like one who is strange in the land, and like a traveller putting up his tent for a night?

²³ They are new every morning; great is your good faith.

²⁵ The Lord is good to those who are waiting for him, to the soul which is looking for him.

²⁶ It is good to go on hoping and quietly waiting for the salvation of the Lord.

² O Israel, come back to the Lord your God; for your evil-doing has been the cause of your fall.

³ Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and the God of all comfort;

⁴ Who gives us comfort in all our troubles, so that we may be able to give comfort to others who are in trouble, through the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.

⁸ Let the story of your mercy come to me in the morning, for my hope is in you: give me knowledge of the way in which I am to go; for my soul is lifted up to you.

⁴ But there is forgiveness with you, so that you may be feared.

⁵ I am waiting for the Lord, my soul is waiting for him, and my hope is in his word.

⁶ My soul is watching for the Lord more than those who are watching for the morning; yes, more than the watchers for the morning.

⁷ O Israel, have hope in the Lord; for with the Lord is mercy and full salvation.

⁸ And he will make Israel free from all his sins.

² See! as the eyes of servants are turned to the hands of their masters, and the eyes of a servant-girl to her owner, so our eyes are waiting for the Lord our God, till he has mercy on us.

³ Let no servant of yours be put to shame; may those be shamed who are false without cause.

¹³ I had almost given up my hope of seeing the blessing of the Lord in the land of the living.

¹⁴ Let your hope be in the Lord: take heart and be strong; yes, let your hope be in the Lord.

³⁹ But the Lord is the saviour of the upright: he is their strength in the time of trouble.

¹ <To the chief music-maker. Of the sons of Korah; put to Alamoth. A Song.> God is our harbour and our strength, a very present help in trouble.

⁵ God has taken his place in her; she will not be moved: he will come to her help at the dawn of morning.

¹⁵ Let your voice come up to me in the day of trouble; I will be your saviour, so that you may give glory to me.

¹¹ Give us help in our trouble; for there is no help in man.

¹ <To the chief music-maker. After Jeduthun. A Psalm. Of David.> My soul, put all your faith in God; for from him comes my salvation.

⁵ My soul, put all your faith in God; for from him comes my hope.

⁸ Have faith in him at all times, you people; let your hearts go flowing out before him: God is our safe place. (Selah.)

¹⁵ Make us glad in reward for the days of our sorrow, and for the years in which we have seen evil.

¹⁵ When his cry comes up to me, I will give him an answer: I will be with him in trouble; I will make him free from danger and give him honour.

²⁷ And when Moses' hand was stretched out over the sea, at dawn the sea came flowing back, meeting the Egyptians in their flight, and the Lord sent destruction on the Egyptians in the middle of the sea.