Redeem me from human oppression, that I may keep your precepts.
Guarantee your servant’s well-being; do not let the godless oppress me.
Listen to my cry, for I am brought very low. Save me from my persecutors, for they are too strong for me.
For you have delivered my soul from death and my feet from falling, so that I may walk before God in the light of life.
Meanwhile the church throughout Judea, Galilee, and Samaria had peace and was built up. Living in the fear of the Lord and in the comfort of the Holy Spirit, it increased in numbers.