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Nature seemed to me benign and good; I thought she loved me, outcast as I was; and I, who from man could anticipate only mistrust, rejection, insult, clung to her with filial fondness.

Everything was strange and silent and she seemed to be hundreds of miles away from anyone, but somehow she did not feel lonely at all.

There, too, after a fit of temper, I went to find comfort and to hide my hot face in the cool leaves and grass.

What a joy it is to feel the soft, springy earth under my feet once more, to follow grassy roads that lead to ferny brooks where I can bathe my fingers in a cataract of rippling notes, or to clamber over a stone wall into green fields that tumble and roll and climb in riotous gladness!

Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, then I will come in to him and will dine with him, and he with me.

For he satisfies the longing soul. He fills the hungry soul with good.

The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit. O God, you will not despise a broken and contrite heart.

He makes the storm a calm, so that its waves are still.

Then they cry to Yahweh in their trouble, and he saves them out of their distresses.

Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will not be hungry, and whoever believes in me will never be thirsty.

Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts. Let him return to Yahweh, and he will have mercy on him, to our God, for he will freely pardon.

For you shall go out with joy, and be led out with peace. The mountains and the hills will break out before you into singing; and all the trees of the fields will clap their hands.

My soul stays close to you. Your right hand holds me up.

Restore to me the joy of your salvation. Uphold me with a willing spirit.

He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in their hearts, yet so that man can’t find out the work that God has done from the beginning even to the end.

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us the sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

I will also give you a new heart, and I will put a new spirit within you. I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you a heart of flesh.

This is the message which we have heard from him and announce to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.

God, you are my God. I will earnestly seek you. My soul thirsts for you. My flesh longs for you, in a dry and weary land, where there is no water.

For you have been my help. I will rejoice in the shadow of your wings.

“I will heal their waywardness. I will love them freely; for my anger is turned away from them.

The Lord is not slow concerning his promise, as some count slowness; but he is patient with us, not wishing that anyone should perish, but that all should come to repentance.

Israel, hope in Yahweh, from this time forward and forever more.

Seek Yahweh while he may be found. Call on him while he is near.

Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners. Purify your hearts, you double-minded.