^1aTo the choirmaster.↑

A Psalm of David.

^1bIn you, O Lord, I have put my trust.

Do not let me ever be ashamed;

Deliver me in your righteousness.

²Extend your ear to me;

Rescue me speedily.

Be a rock-founded stronghold to me

– A fortified building to save me.

³For you are my rock and my stronghold,

So for your name's sake,

Conduct me and lead me.

⁴Extricate me from the net

Which they have hidden for me,

For you are my fortress.

⁵I commit my spirit into your hand.

You have redeemed me,

O Lord God of truth.

⁶I have hated those who keep false idols,

And I have trusted in the Lord.

⁷I will rejoice and be happy in your kindness,

In that you have looked at my affliction;

You have known my inner self in adversities.

⁸And you have not consigned me to the hand of the enemy;

You have stood my feet in a safe place.

⁹Have mercy on me, O Lord,

For I am in straits;

My eye is ravaged with grief,

As are my mind and my body.

¹⁰For my life has been worn down with distress,

And my years with sighing.

My strength falters in my iniquity,

And my bones have wasted away.

¹¹I have been a reproach to all my adversaries,

And very much so to my neighbours,

And frightening to my acquaintances.

Those who saw me in the open

Fled from me.

¹²I have been forgotten like one deceased

– Out of mind.

I have become like an article going to waste.

¹³For I have heard the slander of many;

There was fear all round

When they plotted together against me

– When they contrived to take my life.

¹⁴But I put my trust in you, O Lord;

I have said,

“You are my God.”

¹⁵My times are in your hand.

Oh rescue me from the hand of my enemies

And those who pursue me.

¹⁶Shine your face on your servant;

Save me in your kindness.

¹⁷O Lord, do not let me be ashamed,

For I have called on you.

Let the wicked be ashamed;

Let them be silent at the grave.

¹⁸Let false-speaking lips be dumbfounded,

Which speak insolently against the righteous

In arrogance and in contempt.

¹⁹How great your goodness is

Which you have hidden away

For those who fear you,

Which you have produced for those who trust in you

In the presence of the sons of Adam!

²⁰You will hide them in the secrecy of your face;

You will conceal them in a booth from the brusque ways of man

And from hostile talk.

²¹Blessed be the Lord,

For he has shown his wonderful kindness to me

In a fortified city.

²²But I said in my haste,

“I have been cut off from the presence of your eyes.”

Truly, you have heard my supplications uttered

When I cried out to you.

²³Love the Lord, all you people of his grace.

The Lord is a guardian of the faithful,

And an abundant retributer

Of him who behaves proudly.

²⁴Be strong and may he encourage your heart,

All you who are awaiting the Lord.