<p class="poetry">Even if my father and mother abandoned me,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">the <sc>Lordsc> would take me in.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">&#8220;You aggressively attacked me<n id="1" /> and tried to knock me down,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">but the <sc>Lordsc> helped me.p>

<p class="poetry">But the <sc>Lordsc><n id="1" /> rules<n id="2" /> forever;p> <p class="poetry">he reigns in a just manner.<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">The godly<n id="1" /> cry out and the <sc>Lordsc> hears;p> <p class="poetry">he saves them from all their troubles.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">As for me, I will call out to God,p> <p class="poetry">and the <sc>Lordsc> will deliver me.p>

<p class="poetry">For all the gods of the nations are worthless,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">but the <sc>Lordsc> made the sky.p>

<p class="poetry">This oppressed man cried out and the <sc>Lordsc> heard;p> <p class="poetry">he saved him<n id="1" /> from all his troubles.p>

<p class="poetry">As the mountains surround Jerusalem,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">so the <sc>Lordsc> surrounds his people,p> <p class="poetry">now and forevermore.p>