For my life is spent with grief, and my years with sighing: my strength faileth because of mine iniquity, and my bones are consumed.

What man is he that desireth life, and loveth many days, that he may see good?

For with thee is the fountain of life: in thy light shall we see light.

But mine enemies are lively, and they are strong: and they that hate me wrongfully are multiplied.

My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God: when shall I come and appear before God?

Yet the LORD will command his lovingkindness in the daytime, and in the night his song shall be with me, and my prayer unto the God of my life.

Though while he lived he blessed his soul: and men will praise thee, when thou doest well to thyself.

For every beast of the forest is mine, and the cattle upon a thousand hills.

God shall likewise destroy thee for ever, he shall take thee away, and pluck thee out of thy dwelling place, and root thee out of the land of the living. Selah.

Let death seize upon them, and let them go down quick into hell: for wickedness is in their dwellings, and among them.

For thou hast delivered my soul from death: wilt not thou deliver my feet from falling, that I may walk before God in the light of the living?

Before your pots can feel the thorns, he shall take them away as with a whirlwind, both living, and in his wrath.

Because thy lovingkindness is better than life, my lips shall praise thee.

Thus will I bless thee while I live: I will lift up my hands in thy name.

To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. Hear my voice, O God, in my prayer: preserve my life from fear of the enemy.

Which holdeth our soul in life, and suffereth not our feet to be moved.

Thy congregation hath dwelt therein: thou, O God, hast prepared of thy goodness for the poor.

Rebuke the company of spearmen, the multitude of the bulls, with the calves of the people, till every one submit himself with pieces of silver: scatter thou the people that delight in war.

Let them be blotted out of the book of the living, and not be written with the righteous.

O deliver not the soul of thy turtledove unto the multitude of the wicked: forget not the congregation of thy poor for ever.

He made a way to his anger; he spared not their soul from death, but gave their life over to the pestilence;

The dead bodies of thy servants have they given to be meat unto the fowls of the heaven, the flesh of thy saints unto the beasts of the earth.

My soul longeth, yea, even fainteth for the courts of the LORD: my heart and my flesh crieth out for the living God.

For my soul is full of troubles: and my life draweth nigh unto the grave.

Who redeemeth thy life from destruction; who crowneth thee with lovingkindness and tender mercies;

They give drink to every beast of the field: the wild asses quench their thirst.

Thou makest darkness, and it is night: wherein all the beasts of the forest do creep forth.

So is this great and wide sea, wherein are things creeping innumerable, both small and great beasts.

I will sing unto the LORD as long as I live: I will sing praise to my God while I have my being.

I will walk before the LORD in the land of the living.

Then they had swallowed us up quick, when their wrath was kindled against us:

The LORD shall bless thee out of Zion: and thou shalt see the good of Jerusalem all the days of thy life.

As the dew of Hermon, and as the dew that descended upon the mountains of Zion: for there the LORD commanded the blessing, even life for evermore.

I cried unto thee, O LORD: I said, Thou art my refuge and my portion in the land of the living.

And enter not into judgment with thy servant: for in thy sight shall no man living be justified.

For the enemy hath persecuted my soul; he hath smitten my life down to the ground; he hath made me to dwell in darkness, as those that have been long dead.

Thou openest thine hand, and satisfiest the desire of every living thing.

While I live will I praise the LORD: I will sing praises unto my God while I have any being.

Beasts, and all cattle; creeping things, and flying fowl:

Let us swallow them up alive as the grave; and whole, as those that go down into the pit:

None that go unto her return again, neither take they hold of the paths of life.

For length of days, and long life, and peace, shall they add to thee.

She is a tree of life to them that lay hold upon her: and happy is every one that retaineth her.

So shall they be life unto thy soul, and grace to thy neck.

Hear, O my son, and receive my sayings; and the years of thy life shall be many.

Take fast hold of instruction; let her not go: keep her; for she is thy life.

For they are life unto those that find them, and health to all their flesh.

Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.

Lest thou shouldest ponder the path of life, her ways are moveable, that thou canst not know them.

For the commandment is a lamp; and the law is light; and reproofs of instruction are the way of life: