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¹Unto thee, O LORD, do I lift up my soul.

 ²O my God, I trust in thee: let me not be ashamed, let not mine enemies triumph over me.

 ³Yea, let none that wait on thee be ashamed: let them be ashamed which transgress without cause.

 ⁴Shew me thy ways, O LORD; teach me thy paths.

 ⁵Lead me in thy truth, and teach me: for thou art the God of my salvation; on thee do I wait all the day.

 ⁶Remember, O LORD, thy tender mercies and thy lovingkindnesses; for they have been ever of old.

 ⁷Remember not the sins of my youth, nor my transgressions: according to thy mercy remember thou me for thy goodness’ sake, O LORD.

 ⁸Good and upright is the LORD: therefore will he teach sinners in the way.

 ⁹The meek will he guide in judgment: and the meek will he teach his way.

 ¹⁰All the paths of the LORD are mercy and truth unto such as keep his covenant and his testimonies.

 ¹¹For thy name’s sake, O LORD, pardon mine iniquity; for it is great.

 ¹²What man is he that feareth the LORD? him shall he teach in the way that he shall choose.

 ¹³His soul shall dwell at ease; and his seed shall inherit the earth.

 ¹⁴The secret of the LORD is with them that fear him; and he will shew them his covenant.

 ¹⁵Mine eyes are ever toward the LORD; for he shall pluck my feet out of the net.

 ¹⁶Turn thee unto me, and have mercy upon me; for I am desolate and afflicted.

 ¹⁷The troubles of my heart are enlarged: O bring thou me out of my distresses.

 ¹⁸Look upon mine affliction and my pain; and forgive all my sins.

 ¹⁹Consider mine enemies; for they are many; and they hate me with cruel hatred.

 ²⁰O keep my soul, and deliver me: let me not be ashamed; for I put my trust in thee.

 ²¹Let integrity and uprightness preserve me; for I wait on thee.

 ²²Redeem Israel, O God, out of all his

 “Unto thee O Lord, Do I lift up my soul” – repeat then say, “O my God, I trust in Thee.  Let me not be ashamed let not mine enemies triumph over me.”

¹Now I say, That the heir, as long as he is a child, differeth nothing from a servant, though he be lord of all;

 ²But is under tutors and governors until the time appointed of the father.

 ³Even so we, when we were children, were in bondage under the elements of the world:

 ⁴But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law,

 ⁵To redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons.

 ⁶And because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father.

 ⁷Wherefore thou art no more a servant, but a son; and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ.

 ⁸Howbeit then, when ye knew not God, ye did service unto them which by nature are no gods.

 ⁹But now, after that ye have known God, or rather are known of God, how turn ye again to the weak and beggarly elements, whereunto ye desire again to be in bondage?

 ¹⁰Ye observe days, and months, and times, and years.

 ¹¹I am afraid of you, lest I have bestowed upon you labour in vain.

 ¹²Brethren, I beseech you, be as I am; for I am as ye are: ye have not injured me at all.

 ¹³Ye know how through infirmity of the flesh I preached the gospel unto you at the first.

 ¹⁴And my temptation which was in my flesh ye despised not, nor rejected; but received me as an angel of God, even as Christ Jesus.

 ¹⁵Where is then the blessedness ye spake of? for I bear you record, that, if it had been possible, ye would have plucked out your own eyes, and have given them to me.

 ¹⁶Am I therefore become your enemy, because I tell you the truth?

 ¹⁷They zealously affect you, but not well; yea, they would exclude you, that ye might affect them.

 ¹⁸But it is good to be zealously affected always in a good thing, and not only when I am present with you.

 ¹⁹My little children, of whom I travail in birth again until Christ be formed in you,

 ²⁰I desire to be present with you now, and to change my voice; for I stand in doubt of you.

 ²¹Tell me, ye that desire to be under the law, do ye not hear the law?

 ²²For it is written, that Abraham had two sons, the one by a bondmaid, the other by a freewoman.

 ²³But he who was of the bondwoman was born after the flesh; but he of the freewoman was by promise.

 ²⁴Which things are an allegory: for these are the two covenants; the one from the mount Sinai, which gendereth to bondage, which is Agar.

 ²⁵For this Agar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and answereth to Jerusalem which now is, and is in bondage with her children.

 ²⁶But Jerusalem which is above is free, which is the mother of us all.

 ²⁷For it is written, Rejoice, thou barren that bearest not; break forth and cry, thou that travailest not: for the desolate hath many more children than she which hath an husband.

 ²⁸Now we, brethren, as Isaac was, are the children of promise.

 ²⁹But as then he that was born after the flesh persecuted him that was born after the Spirit, even so it is now.

 ³⁰Nevertheless what saith the scripture? Cast out the bondwoman and her son: for the son of the bondwoman shall not be heir with the son of the freewoman.

 ³¹So then, brethren, we are not children of the bondwoman, but of the free.

¹Sing, O barren, thou that didst not bear; break forth into singing, and cry aloud, thou that didst not travail with child: for more are the children of the desolate than the children of the married wife, saith the LORD.

 ²Enlarge the place of thy tent, and let them stretch forth the curtains of thine habitations: spare not, lengthen thy cords, and strengthen thy stakes;

 ³For thou shalt break forth on the right hand and on the left; and thy seed shall inherit the Gentiles, and make the desolate cities to be inhabited.

 ⁴Fear not; for thou shalt not be ashamed: neither be thou confounded; for thou shalt not be put to shame: for thou shalt forget the shame of thy youth, and shalt not remember the reproach of thy widowhood any more.

 ⁵For thy Maker is thine husband; the LORD of hosts is his name; and thy Redeemer the Holy One of Israel; The God of the whole earth shall he be called.

 ⁶For the LORD hath called thee as a woman forsaken and grieved in spirit, and a wife of youth, when thou wast refused, saith thy God.

 ⁷For a small moment have I forsaken thee; but with great mercies will I gather thee.

 ⁸In a little wrath I hid my face from thee for a moment; but with everlasting kindness will I have mercy on thee, saith the LORD thy Redeemer.

 ⁹For this is as the waters of Noah unto me: for as I have sworn that the waters of Noah should no more go over the earth; so have I sworn that I would not be wroth with thee, nor rebuke thee.

 ¹⁰For the mountains shall depart, and the hills be removed; but my kindness shall not depart from thee, neither shall the covenant of my peace be removed, saith the LORD that hath mercy on thee.

 ¹¹O thou afflicted, tossed with tempest, and not comforted, behold, I will lay thy stones with fair colours, and lay thy foundations with sapphires.

 ¹²And I will make thy windows of agates, and thy gates of carbuncles, and all thy borders of pleasant stones.

 ¹³And all thy children shall be taught of the LORD; and great shall be the peace of thy children.

 ¹⁴In righteousness shalt thou be established: thou shalt be far from oppression; for thou shalt not fear: and from terror; for it shall not come near thee.

 ¹⁵Behold, they shall surely gather together, but not by me: whosoever shall gather together against thee shall fall for thy sake.

 ¹⁶Behold, I have created the smith that bloweth the coals in the fire, and that bringeth forth an instrument for his work; and I have created the waster to destroy.

 ¹⁷No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper; and every tongue that shall rise against thee in judgment thou shalt condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD, and their righteousness is of me, saith the LORD.