⁵ 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.

¹⁴ But I will go on ever hoping, and increasing in all your praise.

³ For they did not make the land theirs by their swords, and it was not their arms which kept them safe; but your right hand, and your arm, and the light of your face, because you had pleasure in them.

⁵ 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.

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.

³ In the time of my fear, I will have faith in you.

¹¹ In God have I put my hope, I will have no fear of what man may do to me.

² From the end of the earth will I send up my cry to you, when my heart is overcome: take me to the rock which is over-high for me.

³ I will keep God in memory, with sounds of grief; my thoughts are troubled, and my spirit is overcome. (Selah.)

¹⁰ Who among you has the fear of the Lord, giving ear to the voice of his servant who has been walking in the dark and has no light? Let him put his faith in the name of the Lord, looking to his God for support.

²⁴ I said to myself, The Lord is my heritage; and because of this I will have hope in him.

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.

¹⁸ Who without reason for hope, in faith went on hoping, so that he became the father of a number of nations, as it had been said, So will your seed be.

¹⁹ And not being feeble in faith though his body seemed to him little better than dead (he being about a hundred years old) and Sarah was no longer able to have children:

²⁰ Still, he did not give up faith in the undertaking of God, but was made strong by faith, giving glory to God,

³⁶ For, having done what was right in God's eyes, you have need of waiting before his word has effect for you.

³⁷ In a very little time he who is coming will come; he will not be slow.

⁴ My heart is deeply wounded, and the fear of death has come on me.

⁵ Fear and shaking have come over me, with deep fear I am covered.

⁷ Take your rest in the Lord, waiting quietly for him; do not be angry because of the man who does well in his evil ways, and gives effect to his bad designs.

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.

⁶ And David was greatly troubled; for the people were talking of stoning him, because their hearts were bitter, every man sorrowing for his sons and his daughters: but David made himself strong in the Lord his God.

²⁶ May the Lord's approval be resting on you and may he give you peace.

¹⁴ My behaviour was as if it had been my friend or my brother: I was bent low in grief like one whose mother is dead.

⁶ I am troubled, I am made low; I go weeping all the day.

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.

¹⁶ With long life will he be rewarded; and I will let him see my salvation.

² I put all my sorrows before him; and made clear to him all my trouble.

³ When my spirit is overcome, your eyes are on my goings; nets have been secretly placed in the way in which I go.

³ The evil man has gone after my soul; my life is crushed down to the earth: he has put me in the dark, like those who have long been dead.

⁴ Because of this my spirit is overcome; and my heart is full of fear.

²³ See, the virgin will be with child, and will give birth to a son, and they will give him the name Immanuel, that is, God with us.

³⁸ Then says he to them, My soul is very sad, even to death: keep watch with me here.

²⁰ Teaching them to keep all the rules which I have given you: and see, I am ever with you, even to the end of the world.

³³ And he took with him Peter and James and John, and grief and great trouble came on him.

³⁴ And he said to them, My soul is very sad, even to death: be here a little time, and keep watch.

¹⁵ Truly, he will put an end to me; I have no hope; but I will not give way in argument before him;