<p class="poetry">May our sovereign God extend his favor to us!<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">Make our endeavors successful!p> <p class="poetry">Yes, make them successful!<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">May we experience your faithfulness, O <sc>Lordsc>,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">for<n id="2" /> we wait for you.p>

<p class="poetry">Yet you have battered us, leaving us a heap of ruins overrun by wild dogs;<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">you have covered us with darkness.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">He does not deal with us as our sins deserve;<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">he does not repay us as our misdeeds deserve.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">if the <sc>Lordsc> had not been on our side,p> <p class="poetry">when men attacked us,<n id="1" />p>

<p class="poetry">Many say, &#8220;Who can show us anything good?&#8221;p> <p class="poetry">Smile upon us, <sc>Lordsc>!<n id="1" />p>

<p class="poetry">For his loyal love towers<n id="1" /> over us,p> <p class="poetry">and the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s faithfulness endures.p> <p class="poetry">Praise the <sc>Lordsc>!p>