Dilexi. The prayer of a just man in affliction, with a lively confidence in God. Alleluia.
1 I have loved, because the Lord will hear the voice of my prayer.
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Because he hath inclined his ear unto me: and in my days I will call upon him.
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The sorrows of death have compassed me: and the perils of hell have found me. I met with trouble and sorrow:
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And I called upon the name of the Lord. O Lord, deliver my soul.
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The Lord is merciful and just, and our God sheweth mercy.
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The Lord is the keeper of little ones: I was humbled, and he delivered me.
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Turn, O my soul, into thy rest: for the Lord hath been bountiful to thee.
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For he hath delivered my soul from death: my eyes from tears, my feet from falling.
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I will please the Lord in the land of the living.