My flesh and my heart fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.
Though He slay me, yet will I trust in Him, but I will defend my own ways before Him.
You are my portion, O Lord; I have promised to keep Your words.
On the day I called, You answered me, and made me bold with strength of soul.
I cried out to You, O Lord; I said, “You are my refuge, my portion in the land of the living.”
The Lord is my rock and my fortress and my deliverer; my God, my rock, in whom I take refuge; my shield and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold.
Wait on the Lord; be strong, and let your heart take courage; wait on the Lord.
For innumerable evils have surrounded me; my iniquities have overtaken me, so that I am not able to look up; they are more than the hairs of my head; therefore my heart fails me.
O God, You are my God; early will I seek You; my soul thirsts for You; my flesh longs for You, in a dry and weary land where there is no water.
My soul longs and even yearns for the courtyards of the Lord; my heart and my flesh cry out for the living God.
“The Lord is my portion,” says my soul, “therefore I will hope in Him.”
For to me, to continue living is Christ, and to die is gain.
knowing that soon I will take off this body, even as our Lord Jesus Christ has shown me.
He who overcomes shall inherit all things, and I will be his God and he shall be My son.