I would have fainted unless I had believed to see the goodness of Jehovah in the land of the living.

Jehovah is my strength and my shield; my heart has trusted in Him, and I have been helped; therefore my heart greatly rejoices, and with my song I will praise Him.

Jehovah will command His lovingkindness in the daytime, and in the night His song shall be with me, my prayer to the Mighty God of my life.

Why are you cast down, O my soul? And why do you murmur within me? Hope in God; for I still praise Him for the deliverance coming from the presence of my God.

In the multitude of my anxieties within me, Your comforts delight my soul.

Your Words were found, and I ate them; and Your Word was to me the joy and rejoicing of my heart; for I am called by Your name, O Jehovah the God of Hosts.

And not only that, but we also exult in afflictions, knowing that affliction produces perseverance;

And hope does not make ashamed, because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us.

For whatever things were written before were written for our instruction, that we through the patience and encouragement of the Scriptures might have hope.

Thus God, determining to show more abundantly to the heirs of promise the immutability of His counsel, pledged it by an oath,

This hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and steadfast, and which enters in within the veil,

Now no chastening seems to be joyful for the present, but painful; nevertheless, afterward it yields the peaceable fruit of righteousness to those who have been exercised by it.

Therefore lift up the hands which hang down, and the feeble knees,

DALETH: My soul clings to the dust; revive me according to Your Word.

So I prophesied as He commanded me, and the spirit came into them, and they lived, and stood upon their feet, an exceedingly great army.

It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh does not profit; not a thing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and they are life.

Of His own purpose He brought us forth by the Word of Truth, that we might be a kind of firstfruits of His creatures.

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to His abundant mercy has begotten us again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,

as newborn babes, desire the pure milk of the Word, that you may grow thereby,