<> O LORD, rebuke me not in thy wrath: neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure.

<> I said, I will take heed to my ways, that I sin not with my tongue: I will keep my mouth with a bridle, while the wicked is before me.

My heart was hot within me, while I was musing the fire burned: [then] spake I with my tongue,

Behold, thou hast made my days [as] an handbreadth and mine age [is] as nothing before thee: verily every man at his best state [is] altogether vanity. Selah.

And now, Lord, what wait I for? my hope [is] in thee.

I was dumb, I opened not my mouth because thou didst [it].

When thou with rebukes dost correct man for iniquity, thou makest his beauty to consume away like a moth: surely every man [is] vanity. Selah.

O spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go hence, and be no more.

<> I waited patiently for the LORD and he inclined unto me, and heard my cry.

And he hath put a new song in my mouth, [even] praise unto our God: many shall see [it], and fear, and shall trust in the LORD.

Many, O LORD my God, [are] thy wonderful works [which] thou hast done, and thy thoughts [which are] to us-ward: they cannot be reckoned up in order unto thee: [if] I would declare and speak [of them], they are more than can be numbered.

Then said I, Lo, I come: in the volume of the book [it is] written of me,

I have preached righteousness in the great congregation: lo, I have not refrained my lips, O LORD, thou knowest.

Withhold not thou thy tender mercies from me, O LORD: let thy lovingkindness and thy truth continually preserve me.

Be pleased, O LORD, to deliver me: O LORD, make haste to help me.

Let them be desolate for a reward of their shame that say unto me, Aha, aha.

But I [am] poor and needy [yet] the Lord thinketh upon me: thou [art] my help and my deliverer make no tarrying, O my God.

<> Blessed [is] he that considereth the poor: the LORD will deliver him in time of trouble.

The LORD will strengthen him upon the bed of languishing: thou wilt make all his bed in his sickness.

Mine enemies speak evil of me, When shall he die, and his name perish?

All that hate me whisper together against me: against me do they devise my hurt.

Yea, mine own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, which did eat of my bread, hath lifted up [his] heel against me.

By this I know that thou favourest me, because mine enemy doth not triumph over me.

Blessed [be] the LORD God of Israel from everlasting, and to everlasting. Amen, and Amen.

But if any have caused grief, he hath not grieved me, but in part: that I may not overcharge you all.

So that contrariwise ye [ought] rather to forgive [him], and comfort [him], lest perhaps such a one should be swallowed up with overmuch sorrow.

For to this end also did I write, that I might know the proof of you, whether ye be obedient in all things.

Lest Satan should get an advantage of us: for we are not ignorant of his devices.

I had no rest in my spirit, because I found not Titus my brother: but taking my leave of them, I went from thence into Macedonia.

For we are unto God a sweet savour of Christ, in them that are saved, and in them that perish:

For we are not as many, which corrupt the word of God: but as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God speak we in Christ.

Do we begin again to commend ourselves? or need we, as some [others], epistles of commendation to you, or [letters] of commendation from you?

[Forasmuch as ye are] manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God not in tables of stone, but in fleshy tables of the heart.

Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves but our sufficiency [is] of God