Dilexi quoniam

I am well pleased:¹ that the Lord has heard the voice of my prayer;

That he has inclined his ear to me: therefore will I call upon him as long as I live.

The snares of death compassed me round about: and the pains of hell got hold upon me.

I found trouble and heaviness, and I called upon the Name of the Lord: O Lord, I beseech you, deliver my soul.

Gracious is the Lord, and righteous: yea, our God is merciful.

The Lord preserves the simple: I was in misery, and he helped me.

Turn again then to your rest, O my soul: for the Lord has rewarded you.

And why? you have delivered my soul from death: my eyes from tears, and my feet from falling.

I will walk before the Lord: in the land of the living.

I believed, and therefore will I speak; but I was sore troubled: I said in my haste, All men are liars.

What reward shall I give to the Lord: for all the benefits that he has done to me?

I will receive the cup of salvation: and call upon the Name of the Lord.

I will pay my vows now in the presence of all his people: in the courts of the Lord's house, even in the midst of you, O Jerusalem. Praise the Lord.

Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost;²

As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.³