⁵⁰ This is my comfort in my trouble; that your sayings have given me life.

⁴ Now those things which were put down in writing before our time were for our learning, so that through quiet waiting and through the comfort of the holy Writings we might have hope.

⁷ The Lord is my strength and my breastplate, my heart had faith in him and I am helped; for this cause my heart is full of rapture, and I will give him praise in my song.

¹¹ Why are you crushed down, O my soul? and why are you troubled in me? put your hope in God; for I will again give him praise who is my help and my God.

⁸ But the Lord will send his mercy in the daytime, and in the night his song will be with me, a prayer to the God of my life.

¹¹ At the time all punishment seems to be pain and not joy: but after, those who have been trained by it get from it the peace-giving fruit of righteousness.

¹² For this cause let the hands which are hanging down be lifted up, and let the feeble knees be made strong,

¹⁷ So that when it was God's desire to make it specially clear to those who by his word were to have the heritage, that his purpose was fixed, he made it more certain with an oath;

¹⁸ So that we, who have gone in flight from danger to the hope which has been put before us, may have a strong comfort in two unchanging things, in which it is not possible for God to be false;

¹⁹ And this hope is like a strong band for our souls, fixed and certain, and going in to that which is inside the veil;

³ And not only so, but let us have joy in our troubles: in the knowledge that trouble gives us the power of waiting;

⁴ And waiting gives experience; and experience, hope:

⁵ And hope does not put to shame; because our hearts are full of the love of God through the Holy Spirit which is given to us.

⁶³ The spirit is the life giver; the flesh is of no value: the words which I have said to you are spirit and they are life.

¹⁶ But to me your word is a joy, making my heart glad; for I am named by your name, O Lord God of armies.

¹⁹ Among all my troubled thoughts, your comforts are the delight of my soul.

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

² Be full of desire for the true milk of the word, as babies at their mothers' breasts, so that you may go on to salvation;

³ Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who through his great mercy has given us a new birth and a living hope by the coming again of Jesus Christ from the dead,

¹⁸ Of his purpose he gave us being, by his true word, so that we might be, in a sense, the first-fruits of all the things which he had made.

¹⁰ And I gave the word at his orders, and breath came into them, and they came to life and got up on their feet, a very great army.

²⁵ <DALETH> My soul is joined to the dust: O give me life, in keeping with your word.