| 1 My son, when you come to serve the LORD, prepare yourself for trials. |
| 2 Be sincere of heart and steadfast, undisturbed in time of adversity. |
| 3 Cling to him, forsake him not; thus will your future be great. |
| 4 Accept whatever befalls you, in crushing misfortune be patient; |
| 5 For in fire gold is tested, and worthy men in the crucible of humiliation. |
| 6 Trust God and he will help you; make straight your ways and hope in him. |
| 7 You who fear the LORD, wait for his mercy, turn not away lest you fall. |
| 8 You who fear the LORD, trust him, and your reward will not be lost. |
| 9 You who fear the LORD, hope for good things, for lasting joy and mercy. |
| 10 Study the generations long past and understand; has anyone hoped in the LORD and been disappointed? Has anyone persevered in his fear and been forsaken? has anyone called upon him and been rebuffed? |
| 11 Compassionate and merciful is the LORD; he forgives sins, he saves in time of trouble. |
| 12 Woe to craven hearts and drooping hands, to the sinner who treads a double path! |
| 13 Woe to the faint of heart who trust not, who therefore will have no shelter! |
| 14 Woe to you who have lost hope! what will you do at the visitation of the LORD? |
| 15 Those who fear the LORD disobey not his words; those who love him keep his ways. |
| 16 Those who fear the LORD seek to please him, those who love him are filled with his law. |
| 17 Those who fear the LORD prepare their hearts and humble themselves before him. |
| 18 Let us fall into the hands of the LORD and not into the hands of men, For equal to his majesty is the mercy that he shows. |