For you give me confidence, O Lord; O Lord, I have trusted in you since I was young.

I will come and tell about the mighty acts of the sovereign Lord. I will proclaim your justice – yours alone.

I asked, “Will the Lord reject me forever? Will he never again show me his favor?

Have mercy on me, O Lord, for I cry out to you all day long!

Make your servant glad, for to you, O Lord, I pray!

O Lord, my God, I will give you thanks with my whole heart! I will honor your name continually!

Where are your earlier faithful deeds, O Lord, the ones performed in accordance with your reliable oath to David?

O sovereign Lord, at your right hand he strikes down kings in the day he unleashes his anger.

O Lord, listen to me! Pay attention to my plea for mercy!

If you, O Lord, were to keep track of sins, O Lord, who could stand before you?

So the sovereign master will afflict the foreheads of Zion’s women with skin diseases, the Lord will make the front of their heads bald.”

For this reason the sovereign master, the Lord, says: “It will not take place; it will not happen.

The sovereign master decreed judgment on Jacob, and it fell on Israel.

מ (Mem) Whose command was ever fulfilled unless the Lord decreed it?

You fear the sword, so the sword I will bring against you,’ declares the sovereign Lord.

I myself will feed my sheep and I myself will make them lie down, declares the sovereign Lord.

The sovereign Lord showed me this: I saw a basket of summer fruit.

saying “Praised be the Lord, the God of my master Abraham, who has not abandoned his faithful love for my master! The Lord has led me to the house of my master’s relatives!”

He said, “My lord, if I have found favor in your sight, do not pass by and leave your servant.

Then Abraham asked, “Since I have undertaken to speak to the Lord (although I am but dust and ashes),