²⁶ Consumed hath been my flesh and my heart, The rock of my heart and my portion `is' God to the age.

² My soul desired, yea, it hath also been consumed, For the courts of Jehovah, My heart and my flesh cry aloud unto the living God,

² Jehovah `is' my rock, and my bulwark, And my deliverer, My God `is' my rock, I trust in Him: My shield, and a horn of my salvation, My high tower.

²⁹ He is giving power to the weary, And to those not strong He increaseth might.

³⁰ Even youths are wearied and fatigued, And young men utterly stumble,

³¹ But those expecting Jehovah pass `to' power, They raise up the pinion as eagles, They run and are not fatigued, They go on and do not faint!

¹² For compassed me have evils innumerable, Overtaken me have mine iniquities, And I have not been able to see; They have been more than the hairs of my head, And my heart hath forsaken me.

⁵ Jehovah `is' the portion of my share, and of my cup, Thou -- Thou dost uphold my lot.

⁶ Lines have fallen to me in pleasant places, Yea, a beauteous inheritance `is' for me.

⁶ for I am already being poured out, and the time of my release hath arrived;

⁷ the good strife I have striven, the course I have finished, the faith I have kept,

⁸ henceforth there is laid up for me the crown of the righteousness that the Lord -- the Righteous Judge -- shall give to me in that day, and not only to me, but also to all those loving his manifestation.

¹⁴ having known that soon is the laying aside of my tabernacle, even as also our Lord Jesus Christ did shew to me,

³ and I heard a great voice out of the heaven, saying, `Lo, the tabernacle of God `is' with men, and He will tabernacle with them, and they shall be His peoples, and God Himself shall be with them -- their God,

⁴ and God shall wipe away every tear from their eyes, and the death shall not be any more, nor sorrow, nor crying, nor shall there be any more pain, because the first things did go away.'

⁷ he who is overcoming shall inherit all things, and I will be to him -- a God, and he shall be to me -- the son,

²¹ for to me to live `is' Christ, and to die gain.

⁹ and He said to me, `Sufficient for thee is My grace, for My power in infirmity is perfected;' most gladly, therefore, will I rather boast in my infirmities, that the power of the Christ may rest on me:

¹⁰ wherefore I am well pleased in infirmities, in damages, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses -- for Christ; for whenever I am infirm, then I am powerful;

¹⁶ wherefore, we faint not, but if also our outward man doth decay, yet the inward is renewed day by day;

¹⁷ for the momentary light matter of our tribulation, more and more exceedingly an age-during weight of glory doth work out for us --

¹⁸ we not looking to the things seen, but to the things not seen; for the things seen `are' temporary, but the things not seen `are' age-during.

¹⁴ Look unto Jehovah -- be strong, And He doth strengthen thy heart, Yea, look unto Jehovah!

¹ A Psalm of David, in his being in the wilderness of Judah. O God, Thou `art' my God, earnestly do I seek Thee, Thirsted for Thee hath my soul, Longed for Thee hath my flesh, In a land dry and weary, without waters.

⁵⁷ `Cheth.' My portion `is' Jehovah; I have said -- to keep Thy words,

⁸¹ `Kaph.' Consumed for Thy salvation hath been my soul, For Thy word I have hoped.

⁸² Consumed have been mine eyes for Thy word, Saying, `When doth it comfort me?'

³ In the day I called, when Thou dost answer me, Thou dost strengthen me in my soul `with' strength.

⁵ I have cried unto thee, O Jehovah, I have said, `Thou `art' my refuge, My portion in the land of the living.'

²⁴ My portion `is' Jehovah, hath my soul said, Therefore I hope for Him.

⁸ on every side being in tribulation, but not straitened; perplexed, but not in despair;

⁹ persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed;

¹⁰ at all times the dying of the Lord Jesus bearing about in the body, that the life also of Jesus in our body may be manifested,

¹⁵ Lo, He doth slay me -- I wait not! Only, my ways unto His face I argue.