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^1 (a)In you, O Lord, do I take refuge;
    let me never be put to shame!
² In your righteousness deliver me and rescue me;
    incline your ear to me, and save me!
³ Be to me a rock of ^(b)refuge,
    to which I may continually come;
you have ^(c)given the command to save me,
    for you are my ^(d)rock and my fortress.

^4 (e)Rescue me, O my God, from the hand of the wicked,
    from the grasp of the unjust and cruel man.
⁵ For you, O Lord, are my ^(f)hope,
    my trust, O Lord, from my youth.
⁶ Upon you I have leaned ^(g)from before my birth;
    you are he who ^(h)took me from my mother's womb.
My praise is continually of you.

⁷ I have been as ⁽ⁱ⁾a portent to many,
    but you are my strong refuge.
⁸ My ^(j)mouth is filled with your praise,
    and with your glory all the day.
^9 (k)Do not cast me off in the time of old age;
    forsake me not when my strength is spent.
¹⁰ For my enemies speak concerning me;
    those who ^(l)watch for my life ^(m)consult together
¹¹ and say, "God has forsaken him;
    pursue and seize him,
    for there is none to deliver him."

¹² O God, be not ⁽ⁿ⁾far from me;
    O my God, ^(o)make haste to help me!
¹³ May my accusers be ^(p)put to shame and consumed;
    ^(q)with scorn and disgrace may they be covered
    who ^(r)seek my hurt.
¹⁴ But I will ^(s)hope continually
    and will ^(t)praise you yet more and more.
¹⁵ My ^(u)mouth will tell of your righteous acts,
    of your deeds of salvation all the day,
    for ^(v)their number is past my knowledge.
¹⁶ With the mighty deeds of the Lord God I will come;
    I will remind them of your righteousness, yours alone.

¹⁷ O God, from my youth you have taught me,
    and I still proclaim your wondrous deeds.
¹⁸ So even to ^(w)old age and gray hairs,
    O God, ^(x)do not forsake me,
until I proclaim your might to another generation,
    your power to all those to come.
¹⁹ Your ^(y)righteousness, O God,
    reaches the high heavens.
You who have done ^(z)great things,
    O God, ^(aa)who is like you?
²⁰ You who have ^(ab)made me see many troubles and calamities
    will ^(ac)revive me again;
from the depths of the earth
    you will bring me up again.
²¹ You will increase my greatness
    and comfort me again.

²² I will also praise you with ^(ad)the harp
    for your faithfulness, O my God;
I will sing praises to you with the lyre,
    O ^(ae)Holy One of Israel.
²³ My lips will shout for joy,
    when I sing praises to you;
    my soul also, which you have ^(af)redeemed.
²⁴ And my ^(ag)tongue will talk of your righteous help all the day long,
for they have been ^(ah)put to shame and disappointed
    who sought to do me hurt.