Dilexi. The prayer of a just man in affliction, with a lively confidence in God. Alleluia.

[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.