Hear, O LORD, and answer me. Save your servant! You alone are God. I will glorify your name forever. Show me a sign of your favour. Glorious things are spoken of you, O city of God. The LORD will write in the register of the peoples: "This one was born in Zion." O LORD, day and night I cry out to you. You have put me in the darkest depths. Do the dead rise up to praise you? I am in despair. I will sing of the mercies of the LORD. You said, "I will establish the throne of David forever." O Lord, where is your love of old? (Psalms 86-89)