For His anger [is but for] a moment, His favor [is for] life; Weeping may endure for a night, But joy [comes] in the morning.

O LORD, be gracious to us; We have waited for You. Be their arm every morning, Our salvation also in the time of trouble.

The LORD [is] righteous in her midst, He will do no unrighteousness. Every morning He brings His justice to light; He never fails, But the unjust knows no shame.

And the LORD passed before him and proclaimed, "The LORD, the LORD God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abounding in goodness and truth,

Your mercy, O LORD, [is] in the heavens; Your faithfulness [reaches] to the clouds.

A Contemplation of Ethan the Ezrahite. I will sing of the mercies of the LORD forever; With my mouth will I make known Your faithfulness to all generations.

For I have said, "Mercy shall be built up forever; Your faithfulness You shall establish in the very heavens."

Nevertheless My lovingkindness I will not utterly take from him, Nor allow My faithfulness to fail.

Who made heaven and earth, The sea, and all that [is] in them; Who keeps truth forever,

in hope of eternal life which God, who cannot lie, promised before time began,

that by two immutable things, in which it [is] impossible for God to lie, we might have strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold of the hope set before [us.]

Let us hold fast the confession of [our] hope without wavering, for He who promised [is] faithful.