⁵Gracious is the Lord, and righteous;
   our God is merciful.
⁶The Lord protects the simple;
   when I was brought low, he saved me.
⁷Return, O my soul, to your rest,
   for the Lord has dealt bountifully with you.

⁸For you have delivered my soul from death,
   my eyes from tears,
   my feet from stumbling.
⁹I walk before the Lord
   in the land of the living.