But how can I alone bear up under the burden of your hardship and strife?

<p class="poetry">With my knowledge I will speak comprehensively,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">and to my Creator I will ascribe righteousness.<n id="2" />p>

<t /><p class="psasuper">By David.p> <p class="poetry">O <sc>Lordsc>, I come before you in prayer.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">I will celebrate my deliverance,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">and call on the name of the <sc>Lordsc>.p>

<p class="poetry">If I were to fly away<n id="1" /> on the wings of the dawn,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">and settle down on the other side<n id="3" /> of the sea,p>

<p class="poetry">Why<n id="1" /> do I put myself in peril,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">and take my life in my hands?p>

<p class="poetry">For this reason<n id="1" /> I will praise you while I live;p> <p class="poetry">in your name I will lift up my hands.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">Make your servant<n id="1" /> glad,p> <p class="poetry">for to you, O Lord, I pray!<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">For I raise up my hand to heaven,p> <p class="poetry">and say, &#8216;As surely as I live forever,p>

<p class="poetry">If I am guilty,<n id="1" /> woe<n id="2" /> to me,p> <p class="poetry">and if I am innocent, I cannot lift my head;<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">I am full of shame,<n id="4" />p> <p class="poetry">and satiated with my affliction.<n id="5" />p>

<p class="poetry">I will not show partiality to anyone,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">nor will I confer a title<n id="2" /> on any man.p>

<t /><p class="psasuper">A song of ascents.<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">I look up<n id="3" /> toward the hills.p> <p class="poetry">From where<n id="4" /> does my help come?p>

So Abner spoke again to Asahel, &#8220;Turn aside from following me! I do not want to strike you to the ground.<n id="1" /> How then could I show<n id="2" /> my face in the presence of Joab your brother?&#8221;

<p class="poetry">their troubles multiply,p> <p class="poetry">they desire other gods.<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">I will not pour out drink offerings of blood to their gods,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">nor will I make vows in the name of their gods.<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">Even when you are old, I will take care of you,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">even when you have gray hair, I will carry you.p> <p class="poetry">I made you and I will support you;p> <p class="poetry">I will carry you and rescue you.<n id="2" />p>

<t /><p class="poetry">I will be like a lion to Ephraim,p> <p class="poetry">like a young lion to the house of Judah.p> <p class="poetry">I myself will tear them to pieces,p> <p class="poetry">then I will carry them off, and no one will be able to rescue them!p>

<p class="poetry">I must endure<n id="1" /> the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s anger,p> <p class="poetry">for I have sinned against him.p> <p class="poetry">But then<n id="2" /> he will defend my cause,<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">and accomplish justice on my behalf.p> <p class="poetry">He will lead me out into the light;p> <p class="poetry">I will experience firsthand<n id="4" /> his deliverance.<n id="5" />p>

King David replied to Ornan, &#8220;No, I insist on buying it for top price.<n id="1" /> I will not offer to the <sc>Lordsc> what belongs to you or offer a burnt sacrifice<n id="2" /> that cost me nothing.<n id="3" />

<p class="poetry">This is what the sovereign <sc>Lordsc> says:p> <p class="poetry">&#8220;Look I will raise my hand to the nations;p> <p class="poetry">I will raise my signal flag to the peoples.p> <p class="poetry">They will bring your sons in their armsp> <p class="poetry">and carry your daughters on their shoulders.p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">I said,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">&#8220;I will weep and mourn<n id="2" /> for the grasslands on the mountains,<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">I will sing a mournful song for the pastures in the wildernessp> <p class="poetry">because they are so scorched no one travels through them.p> <p class="poetry">The sound of livestock is no longer heard there.p> <p class="poetry">Even the birds in the sky and the wild animals in the fieldsp> <p class="poetry">have fled and are gone.&#8221;p>