Nevertheless, I am continually with you; you hold my right hand.

We do not see our signs; there is no longer any prophet, and there is none among us who knows how long.

You hold my eyelids open; I am so troubled that I cannot speak.

Why should the nations say, “Where is their God?” Let the avenging of the outpoured blood of your servants be known among the nations before our eyes!

I am the Lord your God, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt. Open your mouth wide, and I will fill it.

Gebal and Ammon and Amalek, Philistia with the inhabitants of Tyre;

Great Is Your Steadfast Love

A Prayer of David.

Incline your ear, O Lord, and answer me, for I am poor and needy.

Preserve my life, for I am godly; save your servant, who trusts in you—you are my God.

There is none like you among the gods, O Lord, nor are there any works like yours.

Among those who know me I mention Rahab and Babylon; behold, Philistia and Tyre, with Cush— “This one was born there,” they say.

I am counted among those who go down to the pit; I am a man who has no strength,

like one set loose among the dead, like the slain that lie in the grave, like those whom you remember no more, for they are cut off from your hand.

You have caused my companions to shun me; you have made me a horror to them. I am shut in so that I cannot escape;

Afflicted and close to death from my youth up, I suffer your terrors; I am helpless.

For who in the skies can be compared to the Lord? Who among the heavenly beings is like the Lord,

Say among the nations, “The Lord reigns! Yes, the world is established; it shall never be moved; he will judge the peoples with equity.”

I am like a desert owl of the wilderness, like an owl of the waste places;

I lie awake; I am like a lonely sparrow on the housetop.

They performed his signs among them and miracles in the land of Ham.

Then he brought out Israel with silver and gold, and there was none among his tribes who stumbled.

Save us, O Lord our God, and gather us from among the nations, that we may give thanks to your holy name and glory in your praise.

Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel, from everlasting to everlasting! And let all the people say, “Amen!” Praise the Lord!

I will give thanks to you, O Lord, among the peoples; I will sing praises to you among the nations.

For I am poor and needy, and my heart is stricken within me.

I am gone like a shadow at evening; I am shaken off like a locust.