In You, O Jehovah, do I take refuge;
Never let me be put to shame.
 ¹Rescue me in Your righteousness.

Incline Your ear to me;
Deliver me speedily.
Be to me a  ¹rock of protection,
A fortress, to save me.

For You are my crag and my fortress;
Therefore for Your name's sake
Lead me and guide me.

Bring me out of the net
That they have secretly laid for me,
For You are my protection.

 ¹Into Your hand I commit my spirit;
Redeem me, O Jehovah, God of truth.

I hate those who regard  ¹vanities of falsehood,
But I trust in Jehovah.

I will exult and rejoice in Your lovingkindness,
Since You have seen my affliction;
You know the distress of my soul.

And You have not delivered me into the hand of the enemy;
You have made my feet stand in a place broad and free.

Be gracious to me, O Jehovah, for I am in  ¹distress.
My eye is wasted away with grief,
Indeed my soul and body.

For my life has been consumed in sorrow,
And my years, in sighing.
My strength fails because of my iniquity,
And my bones have wasted away.

Because of all my adversaries,
I have become a reproach,
And especially so to my neighbors,
And something dreaded to my acquaintances;
Those who see me on the street flee from me.

I am forgotten, like a dead man out of mind;
I am like a destroyed vessel.

For I hear the slander of many;
Terror is on every side.
When they take counsel together against me,
They scheme to take my life.

But I trust in You, O Jehovah;
I say, You are my God.

My times are in Your hand;
Deliver me from the hand of my enemies and from those who pursue me.

Cause Your face to shine upon Your servant;
Save me in Your lovingkindness.

O Jehovah, do not let me be put to shame when I call out to You;
Let the wicked be put to shame; let them be silent in Sheol.

Let the lips of falsehood be made dumb,
Which speak arrogantly against the righteous
With pride and contempt.

How great is Your goodness,
Which You have stored up for those who fear You,
Which You have accomplished in the sight of the sons of men
For those who take refuge in You!

You hide them in the hiding place of Your presence
Apart from the conspiracies of men;
You lay them away secretly in a shelter
Apart from the contention of tongues.

Blessed be Jehovah,
For He displayed His lovingkindness wondrously
To me in a fortified city.

I, on my part, had said in my alarm,
I am cut off before Your eyes;
But instead You heard
The voice of my supplications
When I cried out to You.

Love Jehovah, all you who are His faithful ones;
Jehovah guards the trustworthy,
And recompenses abundantly
Him who acts haughtily.

Be strong, and let your heart be encouraged,
All you who  ¹hope in Jehovah.

Of David. A  ¹Maschil

 ¹Blessed is he whose transgression is  ²forgiven;
Whose sin is covered.

Blessed is the man to whom
Jehovah does not impute iniquity
And in whose spirit there is no deceit.

When I kept silent, my bones wasted away
Through my groaning all day long.

For day and night Your hand
Was heavy upon me;
My life sap was dried up
As in the drought of summer. Selah

I acknowledged my sin to You,
And I did not cover my iniquity.
I said, I will confess my transgressions to Jehovah.
Then You forgave the iniquity of my sin. Selah

Because of this let everyone who is faithful
Pray to You at a time when You may be found;
Surely when great waters overflow,
They will not reach him.

You are my hiding place;
You preserve me from trouble;
You surround me with the ringing shouts of deliverance. Selah

I will instruct you and teach you concerning the way you should go;
I will counsel you; my eye is upon you.

Do not be like a horse or like a mule, without understanding;
Whose trappings consist of bit and bridle to restrain them,
Else they do not come near you.

Many are the sorrows that the wicked have;
But he who trusts in Jehovah is encompassed by lovingkindness.

Rejoice in Jehovah and exult, O  ¹righteous ones;
And give a ringing shout, all you who are  ¹upright in heart.

Rejoice in Jehovah, O righteous ones.
Praise is becoming to the upright.

Give thanks to Jehovah with the lyre;
With the harp of ten strings sing psalms to Him.

Sing Him a new song;
Play skillfully with a joyous shout.

For the word of Jehovah is right,
And all His work is done in faithfulness.

He loves righteousness and justice;
The earth is full of the lovingkindness of Jehovah.

By the word of Jehovah the heavens were made,
And all their host, by the breath of His mouth.

He gathers the water of the sea like a heap;
He puts the deep waters into storage places.

Let all the earth fear Jehovah;
Let all the inhabitants of the world stand in awe of Him.

For He spoke, and it was;
He commanded, and it stood.

Jehovah brings the counsel of the nations to nothing;
He frustrates the intentions of the peoples.

The counsel of Jehovah stands forever;
The intentions of His heart stand from generation to generation.

Blessed is the nation whose God is Jehovah,
The people whom He has chosen as His own possession.

Jehovah looks from heaven;
He sees all the sons of men.

From the site of His habitation He gazes
At all the inhabitants of the earth,

He who fashions the hearts of them all,
He who discerns all their works.

No king is saved by a great army;
A mighty man is not delivered by great strength.

A horse is a vain thing for salvation,
And it cannot deliver by its great power.

Behold, the eye of Jehovah is upon those who fear Him,
Upon those who  ¹hope in His lovingkindness,

To deliver their soul from death
And to preserve them alive in famine.

Our soul waits on Jehovah;
He is our help and our shield;

For in Him our heart rejoices,
Because in His holy name we trust.

May Your lovingkindness, O Jehovah, be upon us,
Even as we have hoped in You.

Of David, when he disguised his sanity before  ¹Abimelech, who drove him out, and he departed

 ¹I will  ²bless Jehovah at all times;
His praise will continually be in my mouth.

My soul makes its boast in Jehovah;
The lowly hear and they rejoice.

Magnify Jehovah with me,
And let us exalt His name together.

I sought Jehovah, and He answered me;
And He delivered me from all that terrified me.

They looked to Him and were radiant;
And their faces will never be abashed.

This poor man called out, and Jehovah heard;
And He  ¹saved him out of all his troubles.

The angel of Jehovah encamps
Around those who fear Him, and He delivers them.

 ¹Taste and see that Jehovah is good;
 ²Blessed is the man who takes refuge in Him.

Fear Jehovah, you who are His saints;
For there is no lack with those who fear Him.

The young lions hunger and starve,
But those who seek Jehovah will not lack any good thing.

Come, children; hear me.
I will teach you the fear of Jehovah.

Who is the man who desires life,
Who loves having days in order to see good?

Guard your tongue from evil,
And your lips from speaking deceit.

Turn away from evil and do good;
Seek peace and pursue it.

The eyes of Jehovah are set toward the righteous,
And His ears, toward their cry.

The face of Jehovah is against those who do evil,
To cut off the memory of them from the earth.

The righteous cry out, and Jehovah hears;
And He saves them out of all their troubles.

Jehovah is near to those who are broken in heart,
And He saves those who are contrite in spirit.

Many are the troubles of the righteous man,
But Jehovah delivers him from all of them.

He keeps all his bones;
 ¹Not one of them is broken.

Evil will slay the wicked,
And those who hate the righteous man will be condemned.

Jehovah redeems the soul of His servants,
And none who take refuge in Him will be condemned.

Of David

 ¹Strive, O Jehovah, with those who strive with me;
 ¹Battle against those who battle against me.

Take hold of buckler and shield,
And rise up as my help.

Draw out also the spear, and close up the way
Against those who pursue me;
Say to my soul,
I am your salvation.

Let those who seek my life
Be put to shame and humiliated;
Let those who devise evil for me
Be turned back and confounded.

Let them be like chaff before the wind,
With the angel of Jehovah driving them on.

Let their way be darkness and slipperiness itself,
With the angel of Jehovah pursuing them.

For without cause they hid their net for me;
Without cause they dug a pit for me.

Let destruction come upon him unawares,
And let his net, which he hid, catch him;
Let him fall into it, into destruction.

Then my soul will exult in Jehovah;
It will rejoice in His salvation.

All my bones will say,
Jehovah, who is like You,
Who delivers the poor from him who is too strong for him,
And the poor and needy from him who robs him?

Malicious witnesses rise up;
They ask me about things I know nothing of.

They repay me evil for good;
I am bereaved in soul.

But I, when they were sick,
Had sackcloth as my clothing;
I afflicted my soul with fasting,
And my prayer returned to my own bosom.

I conducted myself as if it had been my friend or my brother;
Like one mourning for his mother, I bowed down gloomily.

But at my stumbling they rejoice and gather together;
The attackers, whom I did not know
Gather together against me;
They tear at me and do not cease.

As profane mocking parasites,
They gnash their teeth at me.

O Lord, how long will You look on?
Rescue my soul from their destruction,
My  ¹precious life from the lions.

I will give You thanks in the great congregation;
Among a mighty people I will praise You.

Do not let those who are wrongly my enemies rejoice over me;
Do not let those who hate me without cause narrow their eyes at me.

For they do not speak peace,
But devise words of deceit
Against the quiet people of the land.

And they open their mouth wide against me;
They say, Aha! Aha! Our eyes have seen it.

You have seen, O Jehovah; do not be silent.
O Lord, do not be far from me.

Awake, and stir Yourself for my cause,
For my claim, O my God and my Lord.

Vindicate me according to Your righteousness, O Jehovah my God;
And do not let them rejoice over me.

Do not let them say in their heart,
Aha!  ¹That is what we wanted.
Do not let them say, We have swallowed him up.

May those who rejoice at my trouble
Be ashamed and confounded together;
May those who magnify themselves against me
Be clothed with shame and humiliation.

May those who delight in the vindication of my righteousness
Give a ringing shout and rejoice,
And may they say continually,
Jehovah be magnified,
Who delights in the well-being of His servant.

And my tongue will declare Your righteousness
And Your praise all day long.