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¹ In you, O Yahweh, I take refuge: Let me never be put to shame.² Deliver me in your righteousness, and rescue me: Bow down your ear to me, and save me.³ Be to me a rock for my dwelling, to where I may continually resort: You have given commandment to save me; For you are my rock and my fortress.⁴ Rescue me, O my God, out of the hand of the wicked, Out of the hand of the unrighteous and cruel man.⁵ For you are my hope, O Lord Yahweh: [You are] my trust from my youth.⁶ By you I have been held up from the womb; You are he that took me out of my mother's bowels: My praise shall be continually of you.⁷ I am as a wonder to many; But you are my strong refuge.⁸ My mouth shall be filled with your praise, And with your honor all the day.⁹ Don't cast me off in the time of old age; Don't forsake me when my strength fails.¹⁰ For my enemies speak concerning me; And those that watch for my soul take counsel together,¹¹ Saying, God has forsaken him: Pursue and take him; for there is none to deliver.¹² O God, don't be far from me; O my God, hurry to help me.¹³ Let them be put to shame [and] consumed that are adversaries to my soul; Let them be covered with reproach and dishonor that seek my hurt.

¹⁴ But I will hope continually, And will praise you yet more and more.¹⁵ My mouth shall tell of your righteousness, [And] of your salvation all the day; For I don't know the numbers [thereof].¹⁶ I will come with the mighty acts of the Lord Yahweh: I will make mention of your righteousness, even of yours only.¹⁷ O God, you have taught me from my youth; And until now I have declared your wondrous works.¹⁸ Yes, even when I am old and grayheaded, O God, don't forsake me, Until I have declared your strength to [the next] generation, Your might to every one that is to come.¹⁹ Your righteousness also, O God, is very high; You who have done great things, O God, who is like you?²⁰ You, who have shown us many and intense troubles, Will quicken us again, And will bring us up again from the depths of the earth.²¹ You will increase my greatness, And turn again and comfort me.²² I will also praise you with the psaltery, [Even] your truth, O my God: To you I will sing praises with the harp, O you Holy One of Israel.²³ My lips shall shout for joy when I sing praises to you; And my soul, which you have redeemed.²⁴ My tongue also shall talk of your righteousness all the day long; For they are put to shame, for they are confounded, that seek my hurt.