⁵⁰ This is my comfort in my affliction, For your word has revived me.

⁴ For whatever things were written before were written for our learning, that through patience and through encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope.

⁷ Yahweh is my strength and my shield. My heart has trusted in him, and I am helped. Therefore my heart greatly rejoices. With my song I will thank him.

¹¹ Why are you in despair, my soul? Why are you disturbed within me? Hope in God! For I shall still praise him, The saving help of my countenance, and my God.

⁸ Yahweh will command his loving kindness in the daytime. In the night his song shall be with me: A prayer to the God of my life.

¹¹ All chastening seems for the present to be not joyous but grievous; yet afterward it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been exercised thereby.

¹² Therefore, lift up the hands that hang down and the feeble knees,

¹⁷ In this way God, being determined to show more abundantly to the heirs of the promise the immutability of his counsel, interposed with an oath;

¹⁸ that by two immutable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we may have a strong encouragement, who have fled for refuge to take hold of the hope set before us.

¹⁹ This hope we have as an anchor of the soul, a hope both sure and steadfast and entering into that which is within the veil;

³ Not only this, but we also rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering works perseverance;

⁴ and perseverance, proven character; and proven character, hope:

⁵ and hope doesn't disappoint us, because God's love has been poured out into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us.

⁶³ It is the spirit who gives life. The flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and are life.

¹⁶ Your words were found, and I ate them; and your words were to me a joy and the rejoicing of my heart: for I am called by your name, Yahweh, God of hosts.

¹⁹ In the multitude of my thoughts within me, Your comforts delight my soul.

¹³ I am still confident of this: I will see the goodness of Yahweh in the land of the living.

² as newborn babes, long for the pure milk of the Word, that you may grow thereby,

³ Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to his great mercy became our father again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,

¹⁸ Of his own will he brought us forth by the word of truth, that we should be a kind of first fruits of his creatures.

¹⁰ So I prophesied as he commanded me, and the breath came into them, and they lived, and stood up on their feet, an exceeding great army.

²⁵ My soul is laid low in the dust. Revive me according to your word!