I said, “I will never again see the LORD, even the LORD, in the land of the living; I will no longer look on mankind with those who dwell in this world.
Still I am certain to see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living.
For You have delivered my soul from death, my eyes from tears, my feet from stumbling.
In my alarm I said, “I am cut off from Your sight!” But You heard my plea for mercy when I called to You for help.
How much less, then, when you say that you do not see Him, that your case is before Him and you must wait for Him,
Turn, O LORD, and deliver my soul; save me because of Your loving devotion.
For the living know that they will die, but the dead know nothing. They have no further reward, because the memory of th