And so say I too, O my God , where are You? Behold where You are! In You I breathe a little, when I pour out my soul by myself in the voice of joy and praise, the sound of him that keeps holy-day. And yet it is cast down, because it relapses and becomes a deep, or rather it feels that it is still a deep. Unto it does my faith speak which You have kindled to enlighten my feet in the night, Why are you cast down, O my soul ? And why are you disquieted in me? hope in God ; His word is a lamp unto my feet. Hope and endure until the night — the mother of the wicked — until the anger of the Lord be overpast, 27Job 14:13 whereof we also were once children who were sometimes darkness, the remains whereof we carry about us in our body, dead on account of sin , 28Romans 8:10 until the day break and the shadows flee away. 29Song of Songs 2:17 Hope in the Lord. In the morning I shall stand in Your presence, and contemplate You; I shall for ever confess unto You. In the morning I shall stand in Your presence, and shall see the health of my countenance, my God , who also shall quicken our mortal bodies by the Spirit that dwells in us, 30Romans 8:11 because in mercy He was borne over our inner darksome and floating deep. Whence we have in this pilgrimage received an earnest 312 Corinthians 1:22 that we should now be light, while as yet we are saved by hope, 32Romans 8:24 and are the children of light, and the children of the day — not the children of the night nor of the darkness, which yet we have been. Between whom and us, in this as yet uncertain state of human knowledge , Thou only dividest, who provest our hearts and callest the light day, and the darkness night. 33Genesis 1:5 For who discerns us but Thou? But what have we that we have not received of You? 341 Corinthians 4:7 Out of the same lump vessels unto honour , of which others also are made to dishonour. 35Romans 9:21
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