Have mercy on me, O LORD! Consider my trouble from those who hate me, You who lift me up from the gates of death,

That I may tell of all Your praise In the gates of the daughter of Zion. I will rejoice in Your salvation.

"What profit [is there] in my blood, When I go down to the pit? Will the dust praise You? Will it declare Your truth?

Deliver me from the guilt of bloodshed, O God, The God of my salvation, [And] my tongue shall sing aloud of Your righteousness.

O Lord, open my lips, And my mouth shall show forth Your praise.

The LORD has chastened me severely, But He has not given me over to death.

Open to me the gates of righteousness; I will go through them, [And] I will praise the LORD.

The living, the living man, he shall praise You, As I [do] this day; The father shall make known Your truth to the children.

I know, O LORD, that Your judgments [are] right, And [that] in faithfulness You have afflicted me.

Yes, in the way of Your judgments, O LORD, we have waited for You; The desire of [our] soul [is] for Your name And for the remembrance of You.

With my soul I have desired You in the night, Yes, by my spirit within me I will seek You early; For when Your judgments [are] in the earth, The inhabitants of the world will learn righteousness.

And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to [His] purpose.

For if we would judge ourselves, we would not be judged.

But when we are judged, we are chastened by the Lord, that we may not be condemned with the world.

For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, is working for us a far more exceeding [and] eternal weight of glory,