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¹ IN thee, O LORD, do I put my trust; let me never be ashamed; deliver me in thy righteousness.² Incline thine ear to me and answer me speedily; be thou unto me the God, the helper, and the house of refuge; and save me,³ For thou art my strength and my refuge; therefore for thy names sake comfort me and guide me.⁴ Pull me out of the net that they have laid secretly for me; for thou art my protector.⁵ Into thy hand I commit my spirit; thou hast redeemed me, O LORD God of truth.⁶ I have hated them that observe false worship; but I trust in thee, O LORD.⁷ I will be glad and rejoice in thy mercy; for thou hast seen my humility; thou hast known my soul in adversities;⁸ And thou hast not surrendered me into the hand of my enemies; thou hast established my feet in tranquility.

⁹ Have mercy upon me, O LORD, for I am in distress; mine eye is troubled with wrath, yea, my soul and my body.¹⁰ For my life is spent with grief, and my years with sighing; my strength is weakened because of poverty, and my bones are shaken because of my enemies.¹¹ I have become a reproach to my neighbors and a dread to my acquaintances: they that saw me on the street fled from me.¹² I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind; I am like something given up for lost.¹³ For I have heard of the complicity of many persons; while they connived together against me, they schemed to take away my life.¹⁴ But I trusted in thee, O LORD; I said, Thou art my God, O LORD.¹⁵ The times are in thy hand; deliver me from the hand of mine enemies and from them that persecute me.¹⁶ Make thy face to shine upon thy servant; save me through thy mercies.¹⁷ Let me not be ashamed, O LORD; for I have called upon thee; let the wicked be ashamed, and let them be silent in the grave.¹⁸ Let the lips of the wicked be silent; for they speak falsely and disdainfully against the righteous.

¹⁹ Oh how great is thy goodness, which thou hast laid up for them that worship thee, which thou hast wrought for them that trust in thee before the sons of men!²⁰ Hide them in the citadel of thy presence from the tumult of men; with thy shadow guard them from contention.²¹ Blessed be the LORD, for he has elected for himself the chosen ones in a strong city?²² I said in my haste, I am lost from before thine eyes; nevertheless thou heardest the voice of my supplications when I cried unto thee.²³ O love the LORD, all you his righteous ones; for the LORD preserves the faithful, and rewards the wicked according to their works.²⁴ Be of good courage and he shall strengthen your heart, all you that trust in the LORD.