Have mercy upon me, O LORD; consider my trouble which I suffer of them that hate me, thou that liftest me up from the gates of death:

That I may shew forth all thy praise in the gates of the daughter of Zion: I will rejoice in thy salvation.

What profit is there in my blood, when I go down to the pit? Shall the dust praise thee? shall it declare thy truth?

Deliver me from bloodguiltiness, O God, thou God of my salvation: and my tongue shall sing aloud of thy righteousness.

O Lord, open thou my lips; and my mouth shall shew forth thy praise.

The LORD hath chastened me sore: but he hath not given me over unto death.

Open to me the gates of righteousness: I will go into them, and I will praise the LORD:

The living, the living, he shall praise thee, as I do this day: the father to the children shall make known thy truth.

I know, O LORD, that thy judgments are right, and that thou in faithfulness hast afflicted me.

Yea, in the way of thy judgments, O LORD, have we waited for thee; the desire of our soul is to thy name, and to the remembrance of thee.

With my soul have I desired thee in the night; yea, with my spirit within me will I seek thee early: for when thy judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world will learn righteousness.

And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.

For if we would judge ourselves, we should not be judged.

But when we are judged, we are chastened of the Lord, that we should not be condemned with the world.

For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory;