¹In you, O Lord, I have put my trust;

Do not let me ever be put to shame.

²Rescue me and extricate me in your righteousness;

Incline your ear to me

And save me.

³Be to me a rock-strong dwelling place,

To go to at all times.

You have given commandment to save me,

For you are my rock and my fortress.

⁴O God of mine, rescue me from the hand of the wicked man

– From the palm of the iniquitous and violent one,

⁵For you are my hope, my Lord the Lord,

And my security from my youth.

⁶I have been dependent on you since the womb

– Since my mother's belly from which you cut me loose.

My praise has always been on your account.

⁷I became a marvel to many,

And you were my strong refuge.

⁸May my mouth be full of your praise

And of your splendour all day long.

⁹Do not cast me off in the time of my old age.

When my strength has become exhausted,

Do not abandon me.

¹⁰For my enemies have spoken against me,

And those watching out for a chance to take my life

Have taken counsel together,

¹¹And have said, “God has forsaken him.

Pursue and seize him,

For there is no-one to deliver him.”

¹²O God, do not be far from me.

O God of mine, hasten to my assistance.

¹³May those who take a stand against my life

Be put to shame and consumed.

May those who seek my harm

Be covered in reproach and ignominy.

¹⁴But I will always wait,

And I will add to all your praise.

¹⁵My mouth will relate your righteousness

And your salvation, all day long.

I do not know the number of such deeds.

¹⁶I will come in the might of my Lord the Lord;

I will bring your righteousness to remembrance

– Yours only.

¹⁷O God you have taught me from my youth,

And I have been telling of your wondrous deeds up to now.

¹⁸Now also at old age and grey hair,

Do not forsake me, O God,

Before I have told of your strength

To this generation,

And I have told of your might

To all who are to come.

¹⁹And your righteousness, O God, is sublime,

In that you have performed great deeds.

O God, who is like you?

²⁰Although you have shown us many adversities and troubles,

You will restore us to life again,

And lift me up again from the depths of the earth.

²¹You will increase my greatness

And surround and comfort me.

²²I too will give you thanks on the lute;

I will make psalm melody of your truth to you,

O God of mine,

With the harp,

O holy one of Israel.

²³My lips will rejoice

When I make psalm melody to you,

As will my being

Which you have redeemed.

²⁴My tongue, too, will utter your righteousness all day long,

Because those who seek my harm have become ashamed

– Because they have become disgraced.