My soul liveth, and it doth praise Thee, And Thy judgments do help me.
`Gimel.' Confer benefits on Thy servant, I live, and I keep Thy word.
I have known, O Jehovah, That righteous `are' Thy judgments, And `in' faithfulness Thou hast afflicted me.
`What gain `is' in my blood? In my going down unto corruption? Doth dust thank Thee? doth it declare Thy truth?
The living, the living, he doth confess Thee.
Incline your ear, and come unto me, Hear, and your soul doth live, And I make for you a covenant age-during, The kind acts of David -- that are stedfast.
And we have known that to those loving God all things do work together for good, to those who are called according to purpose;
for the momentary light matter of our tribulation, more and more exceedingly an age-during weight of glory doth work out for us --