²² I will praise you with the harp^(A)
    for your faithfulness, my God;
I will sing praise to you with the lyre,^(B)
    Holy One of Israel.^(C)

²² Who is it you have ridiculed and blasphemed?^(A)
    Against whom have you raised your voice
and lifted your eyes in pride?
    Against the Holy One^(B) of Israel!

¹⁸ Indeed, our shield^[a](A) belongs to the Lord,
    our king^(B) to the Holy One of Israel.

⁹ Surely the islands^(A) look to me;
    in the lead are the ships of Tarshish,^[a](B)
bringing^(C) your children from afar,
    with their silver and gold,^(D)
to the honor^(E) of the Lord your God,
    the Holy One^(F) of Israel,
    for he has endowed you with splendor.^(G)

²⁴ Therefore, as tongues of fire^(A) lick up straw^(B)
    and as dry grass sinks down in the flames,
so their roots will decay^(C)
    and their flowers blow away like dust;^(D)
for they have rejected the law of the Lord Almighty
    and spurned the word^(E) of the Holy One^(F) of Israel.

¹⁸ yet I will rejoice in the Lord,^(A)
    I will be joyful in God my Savior.^(B)

¹⁹ The Sovereign Lord is my strength;^(C)
    he makes my feet like the feet of a deer,
    he enables me to tread on the heights.^(D)

For the director of music. On my stringed instruments.

²⁰ You will be faithful to Jacob,
    and show love to Abraham,^(A)
as you pledged on oath to our ancestors^(B)
    in days long ago.^(C)