He preserves our lives ¹  and does not allow our feet to slip.

For ¹  you, O God, tested us; you purified us like refined silver.

You led us into a trap; ¹  you caused us to suffer. ² 

I cried out to him for help ¹  and praised him with my tongue. ² 

If I had harbored sin in my heart, ¹  the Lord would not have listened.

However, God heard; he listened to my prayer.

So come on, let’s go ahead and attack it by night and destroy all its fortified buildings.’

Give them a distraught heart; ¹  may your curse be on them!

How blessed ¹  is the one whom you choose, and allow to live in your palace courts. ²  May we be satisfied with the good things of your house – your holy palace. ³ 

You answer our prayers by performing awesome acts of deliverance, O God, our savior. ¹  All the ends of the earth trust in you, ²  as well as those living across the wide seas. ³ 

You visit the earth and give it rain; ¹  you make it rich and fertile ²  with overflowing streams full of water. ³  You provide grain for them, ⁴  for you prepare the earth to yield its crops. ⁵ 

Now if some of the branches were broken off, and you, a wild olive shoot, were grafted in among them and participated in ¹  the richness of the olive root,

For if you were cut off from what is by nature a wild olive tree, and grafted, contrary to nature, into a cultivated olive tree, how much more will these natural branches be grafted back into their own olive tree?

The fifth time that Sanballat sent his assistant to me in this way, he had an open letter in his hand.

For no one remembers you in the realm of death, ¹  In Sheol who gives you thanks? ² 

All the earth worships ¹  you and sings praises to you! They sing praises to your name!” (Selah)

Come and witness ¹  God’s exploits! ²  His acts on behalf of people are awesome! ³ 

He turned the sea into dry land; ¹  they passed through the river on foot. ²  Let us rejoice in him there! ³ 

I will enter ¹  your temple with burnt sacrifices; I will fulfill the vows I made to you,

which my lips uttered and my mouth spoke when I was in trouble.