^1aTo the choirmaster, Al-tashcheth.↑

A Golden Psalm of David when Saul sent men to watch his house and to kill him.

^1bDeliver me from my enemies, O God of mine;

Set me on high ground

Against those who rise up against me.

²Deliver me from perpetrators of iniquity,

And save me from men of blood.

³For behold, they lie in wait for my life.

Cruel men are in league against me,

Not for my transgression and not for my sin,

O Lord.

⁴Without iniquity on my part,

They run and prepare themselves.

Arise to meet me and see.

⁵But you, O Lord God of hosts,

God of Israel,

Awake to visit all the Gentiles.

Do not show mercy

To any who treacherously deal in iniquity.

Selah.

⁶They return in the evening;

They growl like a dog

And go around the city.

⁷Look, they babble with their mouth.

Swords are on their lips,

But who is listening?

⁸But you, O Lord, will laugh at them;

You will mock all the Gentiles.

⁹As for his strength,

I will keep to you,

For God is my high stronghold.

¹⁰The God of kindness to me will precede me;

God will show me satisfaction over my adversaries.

¹¹Do not kill them,

Lest my people forget.

Make them wander about by your power,

And bring them down,

O Lord^* our shield.

¹²As for the sin of their mouth

– The word of their lips –

They will be taken in their pride,

And for the cursing and falsehood

Which they speak.

¹³Consume them in fury,

Consume them so that they are no more.

And they will know that God rules in Jacob

And to the ends of the earth.

Selah.

¹⁴And they will return in the evening

And growl like a dog,

And go around the city.

¹⁵They will wander around for food.

If they are not satiated,

They will complain.

¹⁶But I will sing of your strength

And celebrate your kindness in the morning,

For you have been a high stronghold to me

And a place of refuge on the day when I was in a strait.

¹⁷I will make psalm melody to you,

O my strength,

For God is my high stronghold

– The God of kindness to me.