Is any among you afflicted? let him pray. Is any merry? let him sing psalms.

Sing unto him, sing psalms unto him, talk ye of all his wondrous works.

Because he hath loosed my cord, and afflicted me, they have also let loose the bridle before me.

Wherefore let him that speaketh in an unknown tongue pray that he may interpret.

And they came to Balaam, and said to him, Thus saith Balak the son of Zippor, Let nothing, I pray thee, hinder thee from coming unto me: / For I will promote thee unto very great honour, and I will do whatsoever thou sayest unto me: come therefore, I pray thee, curse me this people.

And it came to pass after forty years, that Absalom said unto the king, I pray thee, let me go and pay my vow, which I have vowed unto the LORD, in Hebron.