For I have been prepared for scourges, and my sorrow is ever before me.
For the Lord knows the way of the just. And the path of the impious will pass away.
There, the sparrows will make their nests. The leader of them is the house of the heron.
They have cast me out, and now they have surrounded me. They have cast their eyes down to the earth.
But you dwell in holiness, O Praise of Israel.
You are my refuge from the tribulation that has surrounded me. You are my exultation: rescue me from those who are surrounding me.
And those who sought evil accusations against me were speaking emptiness. And they practiced deceitfulness all day long.
Gather his holy ones to him, you who order his covenant above sacrifices.
For those who are upright shall live upon the earth, and the simple shall continue upon it.
And your people will all be just. They will inherit the earth in perpetuity, the seedling of my planting, the work of my hand, so as to glorify me.
For the Gentiles seek all these things. Yet your Father knows that you need all these things.
So then, just as sin has reigned unto death, so also may grace reign through justice unto eternal life, through Jesus Christ our Lord.
For the wages of sin is death. But the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
His shoe shall be of iron and of brass. As were the days of your youth, so also shall be your old age.
But the firm foundation of God remains standing, having this seal: the Lord knows those who are his own, and all who know the name of the Lord depart from iniquity.
And this is the Promise, which he himself has promised to us: Eternal Life.