Psalms 119:50
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This is my comfort in affliction, that Your promise has given me life.
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For everything that was written in the past was written for our instruction, so that through endurance and the encouragement of the Scriptures, we might have hope.
The Spirit gives life; the flesh profits nothing. The words I have spoken to you are spirit and they are life.
When anxiety overwhelms me, Your consolation delights my soul.
The LORD is my strength and my shield; my heart trusts in Him, and I am helped. Therefore my heart rejoices, and I give thanks to Him with my song.
Why are you downcast, O my soul? Why the unease within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise Him, my Savior and my God.
Your words were found, and I ate them. Your words became my joy and my heart’s delight. For I bear Your name, O LORD God of Hosts.
Still I am certain to see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living.
My soul cleaves to the dust; revive me according to Your word.
The LORD decrees His loving devotion by day, and at night His song is with me as a prayer to the God of my life.
He chose to give us birth through the word of truth, that we would be a kind of firstfruits of His creation.