First Reading for The Common of Martyrs - Daily Catholic Mass Reading

I give you thanks, O Lord and King; I praise you, O God my savior!
I will make known your name, for you have been a helper and a protector to me.
You have kept back my body from the pit, and from the scourge of a slanderous tongue, from lips that went over to falsehood.

And in the sight of those who stood by, you have delivered me,
According to the multitude of the mercy of your name, and from them that did roar, prepared to devour me,
And from the power of those who sought my life; from many a danger you have saved me, from flames that hemmed me in on every side;

From the midst of unremitting fire when I was not burnt from the deep belly of the nether world;
From deceiving lips and painters of lies, from the arrows of dishonest tongues.
My soul was at the point of death, my life was nearing the depths of the nether world;
They encompassed me on every side, but there was no one to help me,

I looked for one to sustain me, but could find no one.

But then I remembered the mercies of the LORD, his kindness through ages past;
For he saves those who take refuge in him, and rescues them from every evil.