⁹ Then my enemies will turn back^(A)
    when I call for help.^(B)
    By this I will know that God is for me.^(C)

⁴ Surely God is my help;^(A)
    the Lord is the one who sustains me.^(B)

“Never will I leave you;
    never will I forsake you.”^[a](C)

“The Lord is my helper; I will not be afraid.
    What can mere mortals do to me?”^[b](D)

⁹ Raise the war cry,^[a](A) you nations, and be shattered!^(B)
    Listen, all you distant lands.
Prepare^(C) for battle, and be shattered!
    Prepare for battle, and be shattered!
¹⁰ Devise your strategy, but it will be thwarted;^(D)
    propose your plan, but it will not stand,^(E)
    for God is with us.^[b](F)

¹⁷ Unless the Lord had given me help,^(A)
    I would soon have dwelt in the silence of death.^(B)