³ For you are my rock and my fortress;
    and for your ^(G)name's sake you lead me and guide me;
⁴ you ^(H)take me out of ^(I)the net they have hidden for me,
    for you are my ^(J)refuge.
^5 (K)Into your hand I commit my spirit;
    you have redeemed me, O Lord, ^(L)faithful God.

⁶ I ^(M)hate^[a] those who pay ^(N)regard to worthless ^(O)idols,
    but I trust in the Lord.
⁷ I will rejoice and be glad in your steadfast love,
    because you have seen my affliction;
    you have ^(P)known the distress of my soul,
⁸ and you have not ^(Q)delivered me into the hand of the enemy;
    you have set my feet in ^(R)a broad place.

⁹ Be gracious to me, O Lord, for I am ^(S)in distress;
    ^(T)my eye is wasted from grief;
    my soul and my body also.
¹⁰ For my life is spent with sorrow,
    and my years with sighing;
my strength fails because of my iniquity,
    and ^(U)my bones waste away.

¹¹ Because of all my adversaries I have become ^(V)a reproach,
    especially to my ^(W)neighbors,
and an object of dread to my acquaintances;
    those who see me in the street ^(X)flee from me.
¹² I have been ^(Y)forgotten like one who is dead;
    I have become like ^(Z)a broken vessel.
¹³ For I ^(AA)hear the whispering of many—
    terror on every side!—
^(AB)as they scheme together against me,
    as they plot to take my life.

¹⁴ But I ^(AC)trust in you, O Lord;
    I say, “You are my God.”
¹⁵ My ^(AD)times are in your hand;
    ^(AE)rescue me from the hand of my enemies and from my persecutors!
^16 (AF)Make your face shine on your servant;
    save me in your steadfast love!
¹⁷ O Lord, ^(AG)let me not be put to shame,
    for I call upon you;
let the wicked be put to shame;
    let them go ^(AH)silently to Sheol.
¹⁸ Let the lying lips be mute,
    which ^(AI)speak ^(AJ)insolently against the righteous
    in pride and contempt.

¹⁹ Oh, how abundant is your goodness,
    which you have stored up for those who fear you
and worked for those who take refuge in you,
    ^(AK)in the sight of the children of mankind!
²⁰ In ^(AL)the cover of your presence you hide them
    from the plots of men;
you ^(AM)store them in your shelter
    from the strife of tongues.

²¹ Blessed be the Lord,
    for he has wondrously ^(AN)shown his steadfast love to me
    when I was in ^(AO)a besieged city.
²² I had said in my ^(AP)alarm,^[b]
    “I am ^(AQ)cut off from ^(AR)your sight.”
But you heard the voice of my pleas for mercy
    when I cried to you for help.

²³ Love the Lord, all you his ^(AS)saints!
    The Lord preserves the faithful
    but abundantly ^(AT)repays the one who acts in pride.
^24 (AU)Be strong, and let your heart take courage,
    all you who wait for the Lord!

³ For when I kept silent, my ^(AZ)bones wasted away
    through my ^(BA)groaning all day long.
⁴ For day and night your ^(BB)hand was heavy upon me;
    my strength was dried up^[d] as by the heat of summer. Selah

⁵ I ^(BC)acknowledged my sin to you,
    and I did not cover my iniquity;
I said, “I ^(BD)will confess my transgressions to the Lord,”
    and you forgave the iniquity of my sin. Selah

⁶ Therefore let everyone who is ^(BE)godly
    offer prayer to you at a time when you ^(BF)may be found;
surely in the rush of ^(BG)great waters,
    they shall not reach him.
⁷ You are a ^(BH)hiding place for me;
    you preserve me from ^(BI)trouble;
    you surround me with ^(BJ)shouts of deliverance. Selah

⁸ I will ^(BK)instruct you and teach you in the way you should go;
    I will ^(BL)counsel you with my eye upon you.
^9 (BM)Be not like a horse or a mule, without understanding,
    which must be curbed with ^(BN)bit and bridle,
    or it will not stay near you.

^10 (BO)Many are the sorrows of the wicked,
    but steadfast love surrounds the one who ^(BP)trusts in the Lord.
^11 (BQ)Be glad in the Lord, and rejoice, O righteous,
    and ^(BR)shout for joy, all you ^(BS)upright in heart!

⁴ For the word of the Lord is upright,
    and all his work is done in ^(BZ)faithfulness.
⁵ He ^(CA)loves righteousness and justice;
    ^(CB)the earth is full of the steadfast love of the Lord.

⁶ By ^(CC)the word of the Lord the heavens were made,
    and by ^(CD)the breath of his mouth all ^(CE)their host.
⁷ He gathers the waters of the sea as ^(CF)a heap;
    he ^(CG)puts the deeps in storehouses.

⁸ Let all the earth fear the Lord;
    let all the inhabitants of the world stand in awe of him!
⁹ For ^(CH)he spoke, and it came to be;
    he commanded, and it stood firm.

¹⁰ The Lord ^(CI)brings the counsel of the nations to nothing;
    he frustrates the plans of the peoples.
^11 (CJ)The counsel of the Lord stands forever,
    the plans of his heart to all generations.
^12 (CK)Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord,
    the people whom he has ^(CL)chosen as his heritage!

¹³ The Lord ^(CM)looks down from heaven;
    he sees all the children of man;
¹⁴ from ^(CN)where he sits enthroned he ^(CO)looks out
    on all the inhabitants of the earth,
¹⁵ he who fashions the hearts of them all
    and observes all their deeds.
^16 (CP)The king is not saved by his great army;
    a warrior is not delivered by his great strength.
^17 (CQ)The war horse is a false hope for salvation,
    and by its great might it cannot rescue.

¹⁸ Behold, ^(CR)the eye of the Lord is on those who fear him,
    ^(CS)on those who hope in his steadfast love,
¹⁹ that he may ^(CT)deliver their soul from death
    and keep them alive in ^(CU)famine.

²⁰ Our soul ^(CV)waits for the Lord;
    he is our ^(CW)help and ^(CX)our shield.
²¹ For our heart is ^(CY)glad in him,
    because we ^(CZ)trust in his holy name.
²² Let your steadfast love, O Lord, be upon us,
    even as we hope in you.

⁴ I ^(DG)sought the Lord, and he answered me
    and delivered me from all my fears.
⁵ Those who look to him are ^(DH)radiant,
    and their faces shall never be ashamed.
^6 (DI)This poor man cried, and the Lord heard him
    and ^(DJ)saved him out of all his troubles.
^7 (DK)The angel of the Lord ^(DL)encamps
    around those who fear him, and delivers them.

⁸ Oh, ^(DM)taste and see that ^(DN)the Lord is good!
    ^(DO)Blessed is the man who takes refuge in him!
⁹ Oh, fear the Lord, you his saints,
    for those who fear him have no lack!
^10 (DP)The young lions suffer want and hunger;
    but those who ^(DQ)seek the Lord lack no good thing.

^11 (DR)Come, O children, listen to me;
    ^(DS)I will teach you the fear of the Lord.
^12 (DT)What man is there who desires life
    and loves many days, that he may ^(DU)see good?
^13 (DV)Keep your tongue from evil
    and your lips from ^(DW)speaking deceit.
^14 (DX)Turn away from evil and do good;
    seek peace and ^(DY)pursue it.

^15 (DZ)The eyes of the Lord are toward the righteous
    ^(EA)and his ears toward their cry.
^16 (EB)The face of the Lord is against those who do evil,
    to ^(EC)cut off the memory of them from the earth.
^17 (ED)When the righteous cry for help, the Lord hears
    and delivers them out of all their troubles.
¹⁸ The Lord is near to ^(EE)the brokenhearted
    and saves ^(EF)the crushed in spirit.

^19 (EG)Many are the afflictions of the righteous,
    ^(EH)but the Lord delivers him out of them all.
²⁰ He keeps all his bones;
    ^(EI)not one of them is broken.
^21 (EJ)Affliction will slay the wicked,
    and those who hate the righteous will be condemned.
²² The Lord ^(EK)redeems the life of his servants;
    none of those who take refuge in him will be ^(EL)condemned.

^4 (EP)Let them be ^(EQ)put to shame and dishonor
    who seek after my life!
Let them be ^(ER)turned back and disappointed
    who devise evil against me!
⁵ Let them be like ^(ES)chaff before the wind,
    with the angel of the Lord driving them away!
⁶ Let their way be dark and ^(ET)slippery,
    with the angel of the Lord pursuing them!

⁷ For ^(EU)without cause ^(EV)they hid their net for me;
    without cause they dug ^(EW)a pit for my life.^[g]
8 Let ^(EX)destruction come upon him ^(EY)when he does not know it!
And let the net that he hid ensnare him;
    let him fall into it—to his destruction!

⁹ Then my soul will rejoice in the Lord,
    ^(EZ)exulting in his salvation.
¹⁰ All my ^(FA)bones shall say,
    “O Lord, ^(FB)who is like you,
delivering the poor
    from him who is too strong for him,
    the poor and needy from him who robs him?”

^11 (FC)Malicious^[h] witnesses rise up;
    they ask me of things that I do not know.
^12 (FD)They repay me evil for good;
    my soul is bereft.^[i]
13 But I, ^(FE)when they were sick—
    I ^(FF)wore sackcloth;
    I ^(FG)afflicted myself with fasting;
I prayed ^(FH)with head bowed^[j] on my chest.
¹⁴     I went about as though I grieved for my friend or my brother;
as one who laments his mother,
    I ^(FI)bowed down in mourning.

¹⁵ But at my stumbling they rejoiced and gathered;
    they gathered together against me;
^(FJ)wretches whom I did not know
    tore at me without ceasing;
¹⁶ like profane mockers at a feast,^[k]
    they ^(FK)gnash at me with their teeth.

¹⁷ How long, O Lord, will you ^(FL)look on?
    Rescue me from their destruction,
    ^(FM)my precious life from the lions!
¹⁸ I will thank you in ^(FN)the great congregation;
    in the mighty throng I will praise you.

^19 (FO)Let not those rejoice over me
    who are ^(FP)wrongfully my foes,
and let not those ^(FQ)wink the eye
    who ^(FR)hate me ^(FS)without cause.
²⁰ For they do not speak peace,
    but against those who are quiet in the land
    they devise words of deceit.
²¹ They ^(FT)open wide their mouths against me;
    they say, ^(FU)“Aha, Aha!
    Our eyes have seen it!”

^22 (FV)You have seen, O Lord; ^(FW)be not silent!
    O Lord, ^(FX)be not far from me!
²³ Awake and ^(FY)rouse yourself for ^(FZ)my vindication,
    for my cause, my God and my Lord!
^24 (GA)Vindicate me, O Lord, my God,
    according to your righteousness,
    and ^(GB)let them not rejoice over me!
²⁵ Let them not say in their hearts,
    ^(GC)“Aha, our heart's desire!”
Let them not say, ^(GD)“We have swallowed him up.”

²⁶ Let them be ^(GE)put to shame and disappointed altogether
    who rejoice at my calamity!
Let them be ^(GF)clothed with shame and dishonor
    who ^(GG)magnify themselves against me!

²⁷ Let those who delight in my righteousness
    shout for joy and be glad
    ^(GH)and say evermore,
^(GI)“Great is the Lord,
    who ^(GJ)delights in the welfare of his servant!”
²⁸ Then my ^(GK)tongue shall tell of your righteousness
    and of your praise all the day long.