¹³⁴ Make me free from the cruel rule of man; then I will keep your orders.

¹ <To the chief music-maker; put to Jonath elem rehokim. Of David. Michtam. When the Philistines took him in Gath.> Have mercy on me, O God, for man is attempting my destruction; every day he makes cruel attacks against me.

² My haters are ever ready to put an end to me; great numbers are lifting themselves up against me.

¹²² Take your servant's interests into your keeping; let me not be crushed by the men of pride.

¹⁷ Then say, This is what the Lord has said: I will get you together from the peoples, and make you come out of the countries where you have been sent in flight, and I will give you the land of Israel.

¹⁸ And they will come there, and take away all the hated and disgusting things from it.

¹⁹ And I will give them a new heart, and I will put a new spirit in them; and I will take the heart of stone out of their flesh and give them a heart of flesh:

²⁰ So that they may be guided by my rules and keep my orders and do them: and they will be to me a people, and I will be to them a God.

⁷⁴ That we, being made free from the fear of those who are against us, might give him worship,

⁷⁵ In righteousness and holy living before him all our days.

¹³ Because you have taken my soul from the power of death; and kept my feet from falling, so that I may be walking before God in the light of life.

⁴³ And he took his people out with joy, the men of his selection with glad cries:

⁴⁴ And gave them the lands of the nations; and they took the work of the peoples for a heritage;

⁴⁵ So that they might keep his orders, and be true to his laws. Give praise to the Lord.

⁶ Give ear to my cry, for I am made very low: take me out of the hands of my haters, for they are stronger than I.

²⁴ For I will take you out from among the nations, and get you together from all the countries, and take you into your land.

²⁵ And I will put clean water on you so that you may be clean: from all your unclean ways and from all your images I will make you clean.

²⁶ And I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you: I will take away the heart of stone from your flesh, and give you a heart of flesh.

²⁷ And I will put my spirit in you, causing you to be guided by my rules, and you will keep my orders and do them.

³¹ And so the church through all Judaea and Galilee and Samaria had peace and was made strong; and, living in the fear of the Lord and in the comfort of the Holy Spirit, was increased greatly.