14. which my lips utteredand my mouth spoke when I was in trouble.
15. I will offer up to you fattened animals as burnt sacrifices,along with the smell of sacrificial rams.I will offer cattle and goats. (Selah)
16. Come! Listen, all you who are loyal to God!I will declare what he has done for me.
17. I cried out to him for helpand praised him with my tongue.
18. If I had harbored sin in my heart,the Lord would not have listened.
19. However, God heard;he listened to my prayer.
20. God deserves praise,for he did not reject my prayeror abandon his love for me!