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¹ To the chief musician. A Psalm of David. In You, O Jehovah, I sought refuge; let me never be ashamed; deliver me in Your righteousness.² Bow down Your ear to me; deliver me quickly, be a strong rock to me, for a house of fortresses 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, God of truth.⁶ I have hated those keeping worthless idols; but I trust in Jehovah.⁷ And I will be glad and rejoice in Your mercy; for You have seen my affliction; You have known the distresses in my soul;⁸ and have not shut me up into the hand of the enemy; You have set my feet in a broad place.

⁹ Be gracious to me, O Jehovah, for I am in trouble; my eye has wasted away 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 exceedingly to my neighbors; and I was a dread to my friends; those seeing me fled outside from me.¹² I am forgotten like one dead from the heart; I am like a perishing vessel.¹³ For I have heard the slander of many; fear is all around; because they are fixing plots 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 pursue 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 upon You; let the wicked be ashamed; let them be silent in Sheol.¹⁸ Let the lying lips be silenced which speak recklessly 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 mankind.²⁰ In the secrecy of Your presence You shall hide them from man's plots; You shall cover them in a booth, from the strife of tongues.²¹ Blessed be Jehovah, for He has worked His mercy wondrously to me in a besieged city.²² For I said in my haste, I am cut off from Your eyes; surely You heard the voice of my prayers when I cried to You.²³ O love Jehovah, all you saints of His; Jehovah preserves the faithful, and abundantly repays the proud doer.²⁴ Be strong, and He will make your heart stronger, all you who hope in Jehovah.