For the thing which I greatly feared is come upon me, and that which I was afraid of is come unto me.

I was not in safety, neither had I rest, neither was I quiet; yet trouble came.

Then I said, I shall die in my nest, and I shall multiply my days as the sand.

And in my prosperity I said, I shall never be moved.

LORD, by thy favour thou hast made my mountain to stand strong: thou didst hide thy face, and I was troubled.

O LORD, thou hast brought up my soul from the grave: thou hast kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit.

He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings.

For great is thy mercy toward me: and thou hast delivered my soul from the lowest hell.

I am counted with them that go down into the pit: I am as a man that hath no strength:

Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit, in darkness, in the deeps.

I went down to the bottoms of the mountains; the earth with her bars was about me for ever: yet hast thou brought up my life from corruption, O LORD my God.

I, even I, am he that blotteth out thy transgressions for mine own sake, and will not remember thy sins.

The wicked in his pride doth persecute the poor: let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined.

Thou hast forgiven the iniquity of thy people, thou hast covered all their sin. Selah.

And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the LORD: for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the LORD: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.

Who is a God like unto thee, that pardoneth iniquity, and passeth by the transgression of the remnant of his heritage? he retaineth not his anger for ever, because he delighteth in mercy.

He will turn again, he will have compassion upon us; he will subdue our iniquities; and thou wilt cast all their sins into the depths of the sea.