Teach me thy way, Lord; and lead me in a plain path, because of mine enemies.
Deliver me not over unto the will of mine adversaries:
For false witnesses are risen up against me, and such as breathe out cruelty.
I had fainted, unless I had believed to see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living.
Wait for the Lord: be strong, and let thy heart take courage; yea, wait thou for the Lord.
SELECTION 15
PRAYER IN TROUBLE
AS the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, God.
My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God: when shall I come and appear before God?
My tears have been my food day and night,
While they continually say unto me, Where is thy God?
These things I remember, and pour out my soul within me,
How I went with the throng, and led them to the house of God,
With the voice of joy and praise, a multitude keeping holyday.
Why art thou cast down, O my soul? And why art thou disquieted within me?
Hope thou in God; for I shall yet praise him
For the help of his countenance.
O my God, my soul is cast down within me:
Deep calleth unto deep at the noise of thy waterfalls: all thy waves and thy billows are gone over me.
Yet the Lord will command his lovingkindness in the day-time;
And in the night his song shall be with me, even a prayer unto the God of my life.
I will say unto God my rock, Why hast thou forgotten me?
Why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?
As with a sword in my bones, mine adversaries reproach me,
While they continually say unto me, Where is thy God?
