And Ruth said, Urge me not to leave you or to turn back from following you; for where you go I will go, and where you lodge I will lodge. Your people shall be my people and your God my God.

For this child I prayed, and the Lord has granted my petition made to Him.

Then the mother of the living child said to the king, for she yearned over her son, O my lord, give her the living baby, and by no means slay him. But the other said, Let him not be mine or yours, but divide him.

He makes the barren woman to be a homemaker and a joyful mother of [spiritual] children. Praise the Lord! (Hallelujah!)

It is vain for you to rise up early, to take rest late, to eat the bread of [anxious] toil–for He gives [blessings] to His beloved in sleep.

Be strong and let your heart take courage, all you who wait for and hope for and expect the Lord!

Answer me speedily, O Lord, for my spirit fails; hide not Your face from me, lest I become like those who go down into the pit (the grave).

There is a river whose streams shall make glad the city of God, the holy place of the tabernacles of the Most High.

A Psalm of David.

Blessed be the Lord, because He has heard the voice of my supplications.