"Be my rock of refuge,

to which I can always go;

For you have been my hope, O Sovereign LORD,

my confidence since my youth.

Your righteousness reaches to the skies, O God,

you who have done great things.

Who, O God, is like you?

My lips will shout for joy

when I sing praise to you—

I, whom you have redeemed."

Excerpts from Psalm 71