⁹ Don't hide your face from me. Don't put your servant away in anger. You have been my help. Don't abandon me, Neither forsake me, God of my salvation.

¹⁷ Don't hide your face from your servant, For I am in distress. Answer me speedily!

⁷ Hurry to answer me, Yahweh. My spirit fails. Don't hide your face from me, So that I don't become like those who go down into the pit.

² Don't hide your face from me in the day of my distress. Turn your ear to me. Answer me quickly in the day when I call.

⁵ He shall receive a blessing from Yahweh, Righteousness from the God of his salvation.

² but your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hidden his face from you, so that he will not hear.

⁴⁰ and I will make an everlasting covenant with them, that I will not turn away from following them, to do them good; and I will put my fear in their hearts, that they may not depart from me.

⁹ Yes, we ourselves have had the sentence of death within ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God who raises the dead,

¹⁰ who delivered us out of so great a death, and does deliver; on whom we have set our hope that he will also still deliver us;

¹⁷ But the Lord stood by me, and strengthened me, that through me the message might be fully proclaimed, and that all the Gentiles might hear; and I was delivered out of the mouth of the lion.

¹⁸ And the Lord will deliver me from every evil work, and will preserve me for his heavenly Kingdom; to whom be the glory forever and ever. Amen.

⁵ Be free from the love of money, content with such things as you have, for he has said, "I will in no way leave you, neither will I in any way forsake you."

³ Listen to me, house of Jacob, and all the remnant of the house of Israel, that have been borne [by me] from their birth, that have been carried from the womb;

⁴ and even to old age I am he, and even to gray hairs will I carry you. I have made, and I will bear; yes, I will carry, and will deliver.

¹²¹ I have done what is just and righteous. Don't leave me to my oppressors.

¹ > Yahweh, the God of my salvation, I have cried day and night before you.

¹² Then Samuel took a stone, and set it between Mizpah and Shen, and called the name of it Ebenezer, saying, Hitherto has Yahweh helped us.

⁹ You, Solomon my son, know the God of your father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind; for Yahweh searches all hearts, and understands all the imaginations of the thoughts: if you seek him, he will be found of you; but if you forsake him, he will cast you off forever.

¹ > How long, Yahweh? Will you forget me forever? How long will you hide your face from me?

²¹ Don't forsake me, Yahweh. My God, don't be far from me.

²² Hurry to help me, Lord, my salvation.

²⁴ Why do you hide your face, And forget our affliction and our oppression?

¹¹ Don't throw me from your presence, And don't take your holy Spirit from me.

⁵ For you are my hope, Lord Yahweh; My confidence from my youth.

⁶ I have relied on you from the womb. You are he who took me out of my mother's womb. I will always praise you.

¹⁷ God, you have taught me from my youth. Until now, I have declared your wondrous works.

¹⁸ Yes, even when I am old and gray-haired, God, don't forsake me, Until I have declared your strength to the next generation, Your might to everyone who is to come.

¹ Thus says Yahweh, Where is the bill of your mother's divorce, with which I have put her away? or which of my creditors is it to whom I have sold you? Behold, for your iniquities were you sold, and for your transgressions was your mother put away.