1. To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David. In You, O Jehovah, I put my trust; let me never be ashamed; deliver me in Your righteousness.
2. Bow down Your ear to me; deliver me quickly; be my strong rock, a fortress to save me.
3. For You are my rock and my fortress; and for Your name's sake lead me and guide me.
4. Bring me out of the net that they hid for me, for You are my strength.
5. Into Your hand I commit my spirit; You have redeemed me, O Jehovah, the God of truth.
6. I have hated those who take heed to lying vanities; but I trust in Jehovah.
7. I will be glad and rejoice in Your mercy; for You have looked on my affliction; You have known my soul in troubles;
8. and have not shut me up into the hand of the enemy; You have set my feet in a broad place.
9. Have mercy on me, O Jehovah, for I am in trouble; my eye has become old with grief, my soul and my belly.
10. For my life is ending with grief, and my years with sighing; my strength fails because of my iniquity, and my bones have wasted away.
11. I was a reproach among all my foes, but especially among my neighbors, and a fear to my friends; those who saw me outside fled from me.
12. I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind; I am like a broken vessel.
13. For I have heard the slander of many; fear is on every side; because of their plottings together against me, they planned to take away my life.
14. But I trusted in You, O Jehovah; I said, You are my God.
15. My times are in Your hand; deliver me from the hand of my enemies, and from those who persecute me.
16. Make Your face shine on Your servant; save me in Your mercy.
17. Let me not be ashamed, O Jehovah; for I have called on You; Let the wicked be ashamed; let them be silent in the grave.
18. Let the lying lips be put to silence; the lips which speak proudly against the righteous, with pride and scorn.
19. How great is Your goodness, which You have laid up for those who fear You; You have worked for those who trust in You before the sons of men!
20. You shall hide them in the secrecy of Your presence from the pride of man; You shall hide them in a shelter away from the strife of tongues.
21. Blessed is Jehovah; for He has worked His mercy wondrously in a besieged city.
22. For I said in my haste, I am cut off from before Your eyes; surely You heard the voice of my cries, when I cried to You.
23. O love Jehovah, all you saints of His; Jehovah preserves the faithful, and plentifully rewards the proud doer.
24. Be strong, and He will make your heart stronger, all you who hope in Jehovah.