Adversity and distress have found me, Thy commands `are' my delights.
The command of His lips, and I depart not. Above my allotted portion I have laid up The sayings of His mouth.
Compassed me have cords of death, And straits of Sheol have found me, Distress and sorrow I find.
I have been afflicted very much, O Jehovah, quicken me, according to Thy word.
In Thy statutes I delight myself, I do not forget Thy word.
And I delight myself in Thy commands, That I have loved,
Meet me do Thy mercies, and I live, For Thy law `is' my delight.
A Song of the Ascents. From depths I have called Thee, Jehovah.
Jesus saith to them, `My food is, that I may do the will of Him who sent me, and may finish His work;