1 I have loved, because the Lord will hear the voice of my prayer.2 Because he hath inclined his ear unto me: and in my days I will call upon him.3 The sorrows of death have encompassed me: and the perils of hell have found me. I met with trouble and sorrow:4 and I called upon the name of the Lord. O Lord, deliver my soul.5 The Lord is merciful and just, and our God sheweth mercy.6 The Lord is the keeper of little ones: I was little and he delivered me.7 Turn, O my soul, into thy rest: for the Lord hath been bountiful to thee.8 For he hath delivered my soul from death: my eyes from tears, my feet from falling.9 I will please the Lord in the land of the living.