Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord; the people whom He has chosen for His own inheritance.

The Lord looks out of heaven; He beholds all the sons of men.

And call upon Me in the day of affliction; and I shall deliver you, and you shall glorify Me. Pause.

He shall call upon Me, and I will hearken to him; I am with him in affliction; and I will deliver him, and glorify him.

Blessed is the man to whom the Lord will not impute sin, and in whose mouth there is no guile.

For day and night Your hand was heavy upon me; I became thoroughly miserable while a thorn was fastened in [me]. Pause.

Therefore shall every holy one pray to You in a fit time; only in the deluge of many waters they shall not come near to Him.

[A Psalm] of instruction for David, when he was in the cave- A Prayer. I cried to the Lord with my voice; with my voice I made supplication to the Lord.

I will pour out my supplication before Him. I will declare before Him my affliction.

If a man's mind is intelligent, his soul is sorrowful; and when he rejoices, he has no fellowship with pride.

And he stood before the altar of the Lord in the presence of all the congregation of Israel, and spread out his hands.

For Solomon [had] made a bronze scaffold, and set it in the midst of the court of the sanctuary; the length of it [was] five cubits, and the breadth of it five cubits, and the height of it three cubits. And he stood upon it, and fell upon his knees before the whole congregation of Israel, and spread abroad his hands toward heaven,

When you stretch forth your hands, I will turn away My eyes from you; and though you make many supplications, I will not hearken to you; for your hands are full of blood.