^1aTo the choirmaster in singing set to stringed music.↑

An Instructive Psalm of David, ^1bwhen the Ziphites came and said to Saul, “Is not David hiding with us?”

^1cO God, save me in your name,

And judge me by your might.

²O God, hear my prayer;

Listen to the words of my mouth.

³For strangers have risen up against me,

And fierce men seek my life.

They have not put God before them.

Selah.

⁴Behold, God is my helper;

The Lord^* is among those

Who sustain my life.

⁵He will turn the evil onto my adversaries.

Cut them off by your truth!

⁶I will willingly sacrifice to you;

I will praise your name, O Lord,

For it is good.

⁷For you have delivered me from all adversity,

And my eye has looked on my enemies with satisfaction.