¹⁶ Answer me, Lord, out of the goodness of your love;^(A)
    in your great mercy turn to me.

²¹ But you, Sovereign Lord,
    help me for your name’s sake;^(A)
    out of the goodness of your love,^(B) deliver me.^(C)

¹⁶ Turn to me^(A) and be gracious to me,^(B)
    for I am lonely^(C) and afflicted.

³ Because your love is better than life,^(A)
    my lips will glorify you.

¹¹ I lead a blameless life;
    deliver me^(A) and be merciful to me.

¹⁹ You will again have compassion on us;
    you will tread our sins underfoot
    and hurl all our iniquities^(A) into the depths of the sea.^(B)

⁴⁵ for their sake he remembered his covenant^(A)
    and out of his great love^(B) he relented.^(C)