For the LORD has comforted his people, and will have compassion on his suffering ones.

“Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted.”

But you, God, see the trouble of the afflicted; you consider their grief and take it in hand. The victims commit themselves to you; you are the helper of the fatherless.

Yet God prolongs the life of the mighty by his power; they rise up when they despair of life.

You are jealous for something you can’t get, so you struggle and fight. You don’t have because you don’t ask.

No testing has overtaken you that is not common to everyone. God is faithful, and he will not let you be tested beyond your strength, but with the testing he will also provide the way out so that you may be able to endure it.

Remember the days of old, consider the years long past.

I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with the glory about to be revealed to us.

See, the former things have come to pass, and new things I now declare; before they spring forth, I tell you of them.

“I am the true vine, and my Father is the vinegrower.”