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?

¹³ O Lord, the hope of Israel, all who give you up will be put to shame; those who go away from you will be cut off from the earth, because they have given up the Lord, the fountain of living waters.

³ For I am the Lord your God, the Holy One of Israel, your saviour; I have given Egypt as a price for you, Ethiopia and Seba for you.

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.

⁷ They have been attacked by all those who came across them: and their attackers said, We are doing no wrong, because they have done evil against the Lord in whom is righteousness, against the Lord, the hope of their fathers.

²¹ Give the word, put forward your cause, let us have a discussion together: who has given news of this in the past? who made it clear in early times? did not I, the Lord? and there is no God but me; a true God and a saviour; there is no other.

¹¹ I, even I, am the Lord; and there is no saviour but me.

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

⁴⁰ And the Lord will be their help, and keep them safe: he will take them out of the hands of the evil-doers, and be their saviour, because they had faith in him.

⁹ The Lord will be a high tower for those who are crushed down, a high tower in times of trouble;

¹ Paul, an Apostle of Jesus Christ, by the order of God our Saviour and Christ Jesus our hope;

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.

⁵ For as we undergo more of the pain which Christ underwent, so through Christ does our comfort become greater.

²⁰ But for this reason I sent for you, to see and have talk with you: for because of the hope of Israel I am in these chains.

¹⁶ Come quickly, all you nations round about, and get yourselves together there: make your strong ones come down, O Lord.

¹⁵ Truly, you have a secret God, the God of Israel is a Saviour!

⁷ Even when trouble is round me, you will give me life; your hand will be stretched out against the wrath of my haters, and your right hand will be my salvation.

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.

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.

¹ Why do you keep far away, O Lord? why are you not to be seen in times of trouble?

¹⁷ And when he saw the traveller in the street of the town, the old man said, Where are you going? and where do you come from?