My flesh and my heart shall waste away, But Elohim is the rock of my heart And my portion forever.
Though, He does slay me – I wait! But I show my ways to be right before Him.
You are my portion, O יהוה ; I have promised to guard Your words.
On the day I called You did answer me, You made me bold with strength in my being.
I cried out to You, O יהוה : I said, “You are my refuge, My portion in the land of the living.
יהוה is my rock and my stronghold and my deliverer; My Ě
Wait on יהוה, be strong, And let Him strengthen your heart! Wait, I say, on יהוה!
For evils without number have surrounded me; My crookednesses have overtaken me, And I have been unable to see; They became more than the hairs of my head; And my heart has failed me.
O Elohim, You are my Ě
My being has longed, and even fainted, For the courts of יהוה ; My heart and my flesh cry out for the living Ě
“יהוה is my Portion,” says my being, “Therefore I wait for Him!”
For to me, to live is Messiah, and to die is gain.
knowing that the putting off of my tent is soon, even as our Master יהושע Messiah made clear to me.
“The one who overcomes shall inherit all this, and I shall be his Elohim and he shall be My son.