Psalms 142:5–6

¹⁷Notwithstanding the Lord stood with me, and strengthened me; that by me the preaching might be fully known, and that all the Gentiles might hear: and I was delivered out of the mouth of the lion.

⁵The Lord is the portion of mine inheritance and of my cup: thou maintainest my lot.

¹³I had fainted, unless I had believed to see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living.

³²Behold, the hour cometh, yea, is now come, that ye shall be scattered, every man to his own, and shall leave me alone: and yet I am not alone, because the Father is with me.

²⁴The Lord is my portion, saith my soul; therefore will I hope in him.

²⁶My flesh and my heart faileth: but God is the strength of my heart, and my portion for ever.

²I will say of the Lord, He is my refuge and my fortress: my God; in him will I trust.

⁹Because thou hast made the Lord, which is my refuge, even the most High, thy habitation;

¹⁰There shall no evil befall thee, neither shall any plague come nigh thy dwelling.

⁵⁷Thou art my portion, O Lord: I have said that I would keep thy words.

¹³For thou hast delivered my soul from death: wilt not thou deliver my feet from falling, that I may walk before God in the light of the living?

¹GOD is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.

⁶He only is my rock and my salvation: he is my defence; I shall not be moved.

⁷In God is my salvation and my glory: the rock of my strength, and my refuge, is in God.

¹¹The Lord of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our refuge. Selah.

⁷The Lord of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our refuge. Selah.

⁸O remember not against us former iniquities: let thy tender mercies speedily prevent us: for we are brought very low.

⁶The Lord preserveth the simple: I was brought low, and he helped me.

²³Who remembered us in our low estate: for his mercy endureth for ever:

¹HEAR the right, O Lord, attend unto my cry, give ear unto my prayer, that goeth not out of feigned lips.

¹⁴After whom is the king of Israel come out? after whom dost thou pursue? after a dead dog, after a flea.

⁷Hear me speedily, O Lord: my spirit faileth: hide not thy face from me, lest I be like unto them that go down into the pit.

¹⁷He delivered me from my strong enemy, and from them which hated me: for they were too strong for me.

¹LORD, how are they increased that trouble me! many are they that rise up against me.

¹⁹But mine enemies are lively, and they are strong: and they that hate me wrongfully are multiplied.

³He shall send from heaven, and save me from the reproach of him that would swallow me up. Selah. God shall send forth his mercy and his truth.

⁴My soul is among lions: and I lie even among them that are set on fire, even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.

³For, lo, they lie in wait for my soul: the mighty are gathered against me; not for my transgression, nor for my sin, O Lord.

³³Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God’s elect? It is God that justifieth.

³⁷Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.

³For the enemy hath persecuted my soul; he hath smitten my life down to the ground; he hath made me to dwell in darkness, as those that have been long dead.

²⁴Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and forgettest our affliction and our oppression?

²⁵For our soul is bowed down to the dust: our belly cleaveth unto the earth.

²⁶Arise for our help, and redeem us for thy mercies’ sake.