Dilexi. The prayer of a just man in affliction, with a lively confidence in God. Alleluia.

 1 I have loved, because the Lord will hear the voice of my prayer.  2 Because he hath inclined his ear unto me: and in my days I will call upon him.  3 The sorrows of death have encompassed me: and the perils of hell have found me. I met with trouble and sorrow:  4 And I called upon the name of the Lord. O Lord, deliver my soul.  5 The Lord is merciful and just, and our God sheweth mercy.

 6 The Lord is the keeper of little ones: I was little and he delivered me.  7 Turn, O my soul, into thy rest: for the Lord hath been bountiful to thee.  8 For he hath delivered my soul from death: my eyes from tears, my feet from falling.  9 I will please the Lord in the land of the living.