"I have no delight when the living perish."
Your decree went out for a perpetual ordinance.
At your rebuke, lord, I was dried up.
By your grace, I was watered again.
For your loving kindness endures forever,
and tender mercy is your delight.
O why have I wandered in ways that are not right?
The wages of sin cause the eye to darken;
undoubtedly, the profit of them is death.
In the shadow of death, I cried to you.
As my spirit pined away, I cleaved to your hope.
Truly all men are unrighteous, and you alone are good.
From the beginning our whole lives were known.
Cause my feet to walk a righteous path, and I will walk in it.
Who is condemned,
but those who refuse to hope in your loving kindness?
Who is denied,
but those who deny your great and holy name?
You know all of your free men.
You also know all of your prisoners.
To the merciful you will grant your mercy,
to the gentle you will give to inherit the earth.
The mourners and those who are poor will stand firm,
and those who have died in righteousness will reign.
You have ordained that all who call on you, in truth, will be saved.
But the wicked will be cast into the depths of the abyss,
where burning flames and frigid frost will consume them in chaotic darkness.
They did not consider the error of their ways,
nor hope to compensate for any of their thefts,
nor accept that their idols are worthless stones and wood,
nor see the irony of their brotherhood of backstabbers.
They refuse to beleive the truth.
They refuse to fear the punishment for their deeds.
They think the flames of hell will be a warm fire to sit by.
They think they will peacefuly pass into nothingness.
Woe to all their souls!
As for me, I will look towards the land of the living,
and rely on the God of salvation, forever.
Your decree went out for a perpetual ordinance.
At your rebuke, lord, I was dried up.
By your grace, I was watered again.
For your loving kindness endures forever,
and tender mercy is your delight.
O why have I wandered in ways that are not right?
The wages of sin cause the eye to darken;
undoubtedly, the profit of them is death.
In the shadow of death, I cried to you.
As my spirit pined away, I cleaved to your hope.
Truly all men are unrighteous, and you alone are good.
From the beginning our whole lives were known.
Cause my feet to walk a righteous path, and I will walk in it.
Who is condemned,
but those who refuse to hope in your loving kindness?
Who is denied,
but those who deny your great and holy name?
You know all of your free men.
You also know all of your prisoners.
To the merciful you will grant your mercy,
to the gentle you will give to inherit the earth.
The mourners and those who are poor will stand firm,
and those who have died in righteousness will reign.
You have ordained that all who call on you, in truth, will be saved.
But the wicked will be cast into the depths of the abyss,
where burning flames and frigid frost will consume them in chaotic darkness.
They did not consider the error of their ways,
nor hope to compensate for any of their thefts,
nor accept that their idols are worthless stones and wood,
nor see the irony of their brotherhood of backstabbers.
They refuse to beleive the truth.
They refuse to fear the punishment for their deeds.
They think the flames of hell will be a warm fire to sit by.
They think they will peacefuly pass into nothingness.
Woe to all their souls!
As for me, I will look towards the land of the living,
and rely on the God of salvation, forever.
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