86 Lord, please listen to me,
    and answer me!
I am weak and I need help.
² I am your faithful servant,
    so keep my life safe!
Please save me, my God,
    for I trust in you.
³ My Lord, be kind to me.
All through the day,
    I am calling to you for help.
⁴ Please make me happy deep inside,
    for you are the one that I pray to, my Lord.
⁵ Yes, my Lord, you are very kind,
    and you are ready to forgive people.
When anyone calls to you for help,
    you love them with your faithful love.
⁶ Lord, hear my prayer!
    Please listen when I call to you for help.
⁷ Whenever trouble comes to me,
    I will pray to you.
I know that you will answer me.
⁸ There is no one like you, my Lord,
    among all the gods.
Nobody can do the great things that you do.
⁹ You have made all the nations of the world,
    and they will all come to worship you, my Lord.
They will agree that your name is great.
¹⁰ For you are great and you do great things.
    You alone are God.
¹¹ Lord, teach me how I should live.
    Then I will obey your truth.
Teach me to serve you with all that I am,
    so that I respect you with fear.
¹² My Lord and my God,
    I will thank you with all my strength.
I will praise your name for ever!
¹³ I know that you love me very much
    with your faithful love.
You will continue to keep my life safe,
    so that I do not go down into the deep hole of death.
¹⁴ God, proud people are attacking me.
Cruel men have joined together to kill me.
    They do not respect you at all.
¹⁵ But you, my Lord, are a kind God
    who forgives people.
You do not quickly become angry,
    and your faithful love is very great.
We can always trust you
    to do what you have promised.
¹⁶ Turn to me and be kind to me.
    I am your servant, so make me strong.
Please rescue your slave!
¹⁷ Help me, so that I know you are pleased with me.
Then my enemies will see it,
    and they will be ashamed.
They will know that you, Lord,
    have helped me and comforted me.