Psalms

¹ For the choir director. A Psalm of David. In You, O Yahweh, I have taken refuge; Let me never be ashamed; In Your righteousness protect me.

² Be to me a rock of strength, A fortress to save me.

³ For Your name’s sake You will lead me and guide me.

⁴ For You are my strength.

⁵ You have ransomed me, O Yahweh, God of truth.

⁶ But I trust in Yahweh.

⁷ Because You have seen my affliction; You have known the troubles of my soul,

⁸ You have set my feet in a large place.

⁹ My eye is wasted away from grief, my soul and my body also.

¹⁰ And my years with sighing; My strength fails because of my iniquity, And my bones waste away.

¹¹ Especially to my neighbors, And an object of dread to my acquaintances; Those who see me in the street flee from me.

¹² I am like a broken vessel.

¹³ Terror is on every side; While they took counsel together against me, They schemed to take my life.

¹⁴ I say, “You are my God.”

¹⁵ Deliver me from the hand of my enemies and from those who pursue me.

¹⁶ Save me in Your lovingkindness.

¹⁷ Let the wicked be put to shame, let them be silent in Sheol.

¹⁸ Which speak arrogantly against the righteous With lofty pride and contempt.

¹⁹ Which You have stored up for those who fear You, Which You have worked for those who take refuge in You, Before the sons of men!

²⁰ You keep them secretly in a shelter from the strife of tongues.

²¹ For He has made marvelous His lovingkindness to me in a besieged city.

²² “I am cut off from before Your eyes”; Nevertheless, You heard the voice of my supplications When I cried to You for help.

²³ Yahweh guards the faithful But repays fully the one who acts in lofty pride.

²⁴ All you who wait for Yahweh.