For You O Lord will bless the righteous With favor You will surround him as with a shield

But a may the God of all grace who called b us to His eternal glory by Christ Jesus after you have suffered a while c perfect establish strengthen and settle you

Now God had brought Daniel into favour and tender love with the prince of the eunuchs

For His anger is but for a moment His favor is for life Weeping may endure for a night But joy comes in the morning

Remember me O Lord with the favor You have toward Your people Oh visit me with Your salvation

And he will turn The hearts of the fathers to the children And the hearts of the children to their fathers Lest I come and strike the earth with a curse

Blessed is the man Who walks not in the counsel of the ungodly Nor stands in the path of sinners Nor sits in the seat of the scornful 2 But his delight is in the law of the Lord And in His law he b meditates day and night 3 He shall be like a tree Planted by the rivers of water That brings forth its fruit in its season Whose leaf also shall not wither And whatever he does shall prosper

You have granted me life and favor And Your visitation has preserved my spirit

I am the Alpha and the Omega the First and the Last

In the six hundredth year of Noah rsquo s life in the second month the seventeenth day of the month on that day all the fountains of the great deep were broken up and the windows of heaven were opened