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.

Consider {and} hear me, O LORD my God: lighten mine eyes, lest I sleep the {sleep of} death;

I said in the cutting off of my days, I shall go to the gates of the grave: I am deprived of the residue of my years.

For great {is} thy mercy toward me: and thou hast delivered my soul from the lowest hell. {hell: or, grave}

But mine enemies {are} lively, {and} they are strong: and they that hate me wrongfully are multiplied. {are lively...: Heb. being living, are strong}

Their soul abhorreth all manner of meat; and they draw near unto the gates of death.

[To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David, when Nathan the prophet came unto him, after he had gone in to Bathsheba.] Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy lovingkindness: according unto the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions.

All her people sigh, they seek bread; they have given their pleasant things for meat to relieve the soul: see, O LORD, and consider; for I am become vile. {to...: or, to make the soul to come again}

For thou hast delivered my soul from death: {wilt} not {thou deliver} my feet from falling, that I may walk before God in the light of the living?

Consider mine enemies; for they are many; and they hate me with cruel hatred. {cruel...: Heb. hatred of violence}

Attend unto my cry; for I am brought very low: deliver me from my persecutors; for they are stronger than I.

RESH. Consider mine affliction, and deliver me: for I do not forget thy law.

Look thou upon me, and be merciful unto me, as thou usest to do unto those that love thy name. {as thou...: Heb. according to the custom toward those, etc}

Her filthiness {is} in her skirts; she remembereth not her last end; therefore she came down wonderfully: she had no comforter. O LORD, behold my affliction: for the enemy hath magnified {himself}.

The sorrows of death compassed me, and the pains of hell gat hold upon me: I found trouble and sorrow. {gat...: Heb. found me}

Now therefore, our God, the great, the mighty, and the terrible God, who keepest covenant and mercy, let not all the trouble seem little before thee, that hath come upon us, on our kings, on our princes, and on our priests, and on our prophets, and on our fathers, and on all thy people, since the time of the kings of Assyria unto this day. {trouble: Heb. weariness} {that...: Heb. that hath found us}

And there were set there six waterpots of stone, after the manner of the purifying of the Jews, containing two or three firkins apiece.

And I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. {Peter: this name signifies a rock}

Have the gates of death been opened unto thee? or hast thou seen the doors of the shadow of death?

I will be glad and rejoice in thy mercy: for thou hast considered my trouble; thou hast known my soul in adversities;

Their soul abhorreth all manner of meat; and they draw near unto the gates of death.

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

RESH. Consider mine affliction, and deliver me: for I do not forget thy law.

Afterward Jesus findeth him in the temple, and said unto him, Behold, thou art made whole: sin no more, lest a worse thing come unto thee.

Consider {and} hear me, O LORD my God: lighten mine eyes, lest I sleep the {sleep of} death;

He delivered me from my strong enemy, and from them which hated me: for they were too strong for me.

Let my soul live, and it shall praise thee; and let thy judgments help me.

The LORD {was ready} to save me: therefore we will sing my songs to the stringed instruments all the days of our life in the house of the LORD.

To declare the name of the LORD in Zion, and his praise in Jerusalem;