⁴ Gladden the soul of your servant,
    for ^(A)to you, O Lord, do I lift up my soul.

^8 (A)Let me hear in the morning of your steadfast love,
    for in you I ^(B)trust.
^(C)Make me know the way I should go,
    ^(D)for to you I lift up my soul.

25 To you, O Lord, I ^(A)lift up my soul.

¹³ As one whom his mother comforts,
    so ^(A)I will comfort you;
    you shall be comforted in Jerusalem.
¹⁴ You shall see, and your heart shall rejoice;
    ^(B)your bones shall flourish like the grass;
and ^(C)the hand of the Lord shall be known to his servants,
    and he shall show his indignation against his enemies.

³ to grant to those who mourn in Zion—
    ^(A)to give them a beautiful headdress instead of ashes,
^(B)the oil of gladness instead of mourning,
    the garment of praise instead of a faint spirit;
^(C)that they may be called oaks of righteousness,
    the planting of the Lord, ^(D)that he may be glorified.^[a]

¹² Restore to me the joy of your salvation,
    and uphold me with a willing spirit.

¹⁸ But be glad and rejoice forever
    in that which I create;
for behold, ^(A)I create Jerusalem to be a joy,
    and her people to be a gladness.