Because he has hoped in me, I will free him. I will protect him because he has known my name.
Their mouth has been speaking vain things, and their right hand is the right hand of iniquity.
Let Israel rejoice in him who made them, and let the sons of Zion exult in their king.
This is the generation that seeks him, that seeks the face of the God of Jacob.
You are my refuge from the tribulation that has surrounded me. You are my exultation: rescue me from those who are surrounding me.
Let all the earth adore you and sing psalms to you. May it sing a psalm to your name.
Pay attention, Lord, to my prayer, and attend to the voice of my supplication.
I will be mindful of Rahab and of Babylon knowing me. Behold, the foreigners, and Tyre, and the people of the Ethiopians: these have been there.
Thus says the Lord: "A voice has been heard on high: of lamentation, mourning, and weeping; of Rachel crying for her sons and refusing to be consoled over them, because they are not."
For what is his goodness and what is his beauty, other than grain among the elect and wine springing forth virgins?
Rejoice in the Lord always. Again, I say, rejoice.