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What were Gregory VII’s reported final words in exile?

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Gregory VII excommunicating Henry IV — St. Gregory VII Pope Gregory VII, after his expulsion from Rome, laying a ban of excommunication on the clergy “together with the raging king” (Henry IV of Germany), drawing from the 12th-century chronicle of Otto of Freising; in the library of the University of Jena, Germany.

According to tradition, the final words spoken by St. Gregory VII while in exile in Salerno were a paraphrase of a passage from the Psalms: "I have loved righteousness and hated iniquity, therefore I die in exile."1