1 ✡Rom 4:7-8 Blessed are they whose transgressions are forgiven, and who sins are covered.

2 Blessed is the man to whom the Lord will not impute sin, and whose mouth there is no guile.

3 Because I kept silence, my bones waxed old, from my crying all the day.

4 For day and night your hand was heavy upon me: I became thoroughly miserable while a †See Heb. thorn was fastened in me. Pause.

5 I acknowledged my sin, and hid not my iniquity: I said, I will confess my iniquity to the Lord against myself; and you forgave the ungodliness of my heart. Pause.

6 Therefore shall every holy one pray to you in a fit time: only in the deluge of many waters they shall not come near to him.

7 You are my refuge from the affliction that encompasses me; my joy, to deliver me from them that have compassed me. Pause.

8 I will instruct you and guide you in this way wherein you shall go: I will fix my eyes upon you.

9 Be you⌃ not as horse and mule, which have no understanding; ‡See Alex. ἄγξεις but you must constrain their jaws with bit and curb, lest they should come near to you.

10 Many are the scourges of the sinner: but him that hopes in the Lord mercy shall compass about.

11 Be glad in the Lord, and exult, you⌃ righteous: and glory, all you⌃ that are upright in heart.