For the terror of which I meditated has come upon me, and that which I had feared has befallen me.

I was not at peace, nor quiet, nor had I rest; yet wrath came upon me.

And I said, My age shall continue as the stem of a palm tree; I shall live a long while.

And I said in my prosperity, I shall never be moved.

O Lord, in Your good pleasure You added strength to my beauty; but You turned away Your face, and I was troubled.

O Lord, You have brought up my soul from Hades, You have delivered me from [among] them that go down to the pit.

And He brought me up out of a pit of misery, and from miry clay; and He set my feet upon a rock, and established my steps.

For Your mercy is great toward me; and You have delivered my soul from the depths of hell.

I have been reckoned with them that go down to the pit; I became as a man without help;

They laid me in the lowest pit, in darkness, and in the shadow of death.

[ 2:7] to the clefts of the mountains; I went down into the earth, whose bars are the everlasting barriers: yet, O Lord my God, let my ruined life be restored.

I, [even] I, am He that blots out your transgressions for My own sake, and your sins; and I will remember [them] no more.

While the ungodly one acts proudly, the poor is hotly pursued; [the wicked] are taken in the crafty counsels which they imagine.

You have forgiven Your people their transgressions; You have covered all their sins. Pause.

And no more shall every man teach his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord. For all shall know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them. For I will be merciful to their iniquities, and their sins I will remember no more.

Who is a God like You, canceling iniquities, and passing over the sins of the remnant of His inheritance? And He has not kept His anger for a testimony, for He delights in mercy.

He will return and have mercy upon us; He will sink our iniquities, and they shall be cast into the depth of the sea, even all our sins.