A Prayer of David. Lord, listen to my justice, attend to my supplication. Pay attention to my prayer, which is not from deceitful lips.
A Canticle in steps. When the Lord turned back the captivity of Zion, we became like those who are consoled.
Great is our Lord, and great is his virtue. And of his wisdom, there is no number.
The sorrows of death surrounded me, and the torrents of iniquity dismayed me.
The earth was shaken, and it trembled. The foundations of the mountains were disturbed, and they were shaken, because he was angry with them.
Unto the end. May you not destroy. Of David, with the inscription of a title, when he fled from Saul into a cave.
Unto the end. With hymns, of David.
A Psalm of David, which he sang to the Lord because of the words of Cush, the son of Jemini.
O Lord, my God, in you I have hoped. Save me from all those who persecute me, and free me:
Truth has risen from the earth, and justice has gazed down from heaven.
And the Lord has become a refuge for the poor, a helper in opportunity, in tribulation.
serving the paths of justice, and guarding the ways of sanctity.
But we had within ourselves the response to death, so that we would not have faith in ourselves, but in God, who raises the dead.
For this reason, I also suffer these things. But I am not confounded. For I know in whom I have believed, and I am certain that he has the power to preserve what was entrusted to me, unto that day.