^3 (C)For You are my rock and my fortress;
Therefore, ^(D)for Your name’s sake,
Lead me and guide me.
⁴ Pull me out of the net which they have secretly laid for me,
For You are my strength.
^5 (E)Into Your hand I commit my spirit;
You have redeemed me, O Lord God of ^(F)truth.

⁶ I have hated those ^(G)who regard useless idols;
But I trust in the Lord.
⁷ I will be glad and rejoice in Your mercy,
For You have considered my trouble;
You have ^(H)known my soul in ^[d]adversities,
⁸ And have not ^(I)shut^[e] me up into the hand of the enemy;
^(J)You have set my feet in a wide place.

⁹ Have mercy on me, O Lord, for I am in trouble;
^(K)My eye wastes away with grief,
Yes, my soul and my ^[f]body!
¹⁰ For my life is spent with grief,
And my years with sighing;
My strength fails because of my iniquity,
And my bones waste away.
^11 (L)I am a ^[g]reproach among all my enemies,
But ^(M)especially among my neighbors,
And am repulsive to my acquaintances;
^(N)Those who see me outside flee from me.
^12 (O)I am forgotten like a dead man, out of mind;
I am like a ^[h]broken vessel.
^13 (P)For I hear the slander of many;
^(Q)Fear is on every side;
While they ^(R)take counsel together against me,
They scheme to take away my life.

¹⁴ But as for me, I trust in You, O Lord;
I say, “You are my God.”
¹⁵ My times are in Your ^(S)hand;
Deliver me from the hand of my enemies,
And from those who persecute me.
^16 (T)Make Your face shine upon Your servant;
Save me for Your mercies’ sake.
^17 (U)Do not let me be ashamed, O Lord, for I have called upon You;
Let the wicked be ashamed;
^(V)Let them be silent in the grave.
^18 (W)Let the lying lips be put to silence,
Which ^(X)speak insolent things proudly and contemptuously against the righteous.

^19 (Y)Oh, how great is Your goodness,
Which You have laid up for those who fear You,
Which You have prepared for those who trust in You
In the presence of the sons of men!
^20 (Z)You shall hide them in the secret place of Your presence
From the plots of man;
^(AA)You shall keep them secretly in a ^[i]pavilion
From the strife of tongues.

²¹ Blessed be the Lord,
For ^(AB)He has shown me His marvelous kindness in a ^[j]strong city!
²² For I said in my haste,
“I am cut off from before Your eyes”;
Nevertheless You heard the voice of my supplications
When I cried out to You.

²³ Oh, love the Lord, all you His saints!
For the Lord preserves the faithful,
And fully repays the proud person.
^24 (AC)Be of good courage,
And He shall strengthen your heart,
All you who hope in the Lord.

^4 (A)Let those be put to shame and brought to dishonor
Who seek after my life;
Let those be ^(B)turned back and brought to confusion
Who plot my hurt.
^5 (C)Let them be like chaff before the wind,
And let the ^[c]angel of the Lord chase them.
⁶ Let their way be ^(D)dark and slippery,
And let the angel of the Lord pursue them.
⁷ For without cause they have ^(E)hidden their net for me in a pit,
Which they have dug without cause for my life.
^8 [d]Let ^(F)destruction come upon him unexpectedly,
And let his net that he has hidden catch himself;
Into that very destruction let him fall.

⁹ And my soul shall be joyful in the Lord;
It shall rejoice in His salvation.
^10 (G)All my bones shall say,
“Lord, ^(H)who is like You,
Delivering the poor from him who is too strong for him,
Yes, the poor and the needy from him who plunders him?”

¹¹ Fierce witnesses rise up;
They ask me things that I do not know.
^12 (I)They reward me evil for good,
To the sorrow of my soul.
¹³ But as for me, ^(J)when they were sick,
My clothing was sackcloth;
I humbled myself with fasting;
And my prayer would return to my own ^[e]heart.
¹⁴ I paced about as though he were my friend or brother;
I bowed down ^[f]heavily, as one who mourns for his mother.

¹⁵ But in my ^[g]adversity they rejoiced
And gathered together;
Attackers gathered against me,
And I did not know it;
They tore at me and did not cease;
¹⁶ With ungodly mockers at feasts
They gnashed at me with their teeth.

¹⁷ Lord, how long will You ^(K)look on?
Rescue me from their destructions,
My precious life from the lions.
¹⁸ I will give You thanks in the great assembly;
I will praise You among ^[h]many people.

^19 (L)Let them not rejoice over me who are wrongfully my enemies;
Nor let them wink with the eye who hate me without a cause.
²⁰ For they do not speak peace,
But they devise deceitful matters
Against the quiet ones in the land.
²¹ They also opened their mouth wide against me,
And said, “Aha, aha!
Our eyes have seen it.”

²² This You have seen, O Lord;
Do not keep silence.
O Lord, do not be far from me.
²³ Stir up Yourself, and awake to my vindication,
To my cause, my God and my Lord.
²⁴ Vindicate me, O Lord my God, according to Your righteousness;
And let them not rejoice over me.
²⁵ Let them not say in their hearts, “Ah, so we would have it!”
Let them not say, “We have swallowed him up.”

²⁶ Let them be ashamed and brought to mutual confusion
Who rejoice at my hurt;
Let them be ^(M)clothed with shame and dishonor
Who exalt themselves against me.

^27 (N)Let them shout for joy and be glad,
Who favor my righteous cause;
And let them say continually,
“Let the Lord be magnified,
Who has pleasure in the prosperity of His servant.”
²⁸ And my tongue shall speak of Your righteousness
And of Your praise all the day long.

⁵ Your mercy, O Lord, is in the heavens;
Your faithfulness reaches to the clouds.
⁶ Your righteousness is like the ^[j]great mountains;
^(T)Your judgments are a great deep;
O Lord, You preserve man and beast.

⁷ How precious is Your lovingkindness, O God!
Therefore the children of men ^(U)put their trust under the shadow of Your wings.
^8 (V)They are abundantly satisfied with the fullness of Your house,
And You give them drink from ^(W)the river of Your pleasures.
^9 (X)For with You is the fountain of life;
^(Y)In Your light we see light.

¹⁰ Oh, continue Your lovingkindness to those who know You,
And Your righteousness to the upright in heart.
¹¹ Let not the foot of pride come against me,
And let not the hand of the wicked drive me away.
¹² There the workers of iniquity have fallen;
They have been cast down and are not able to rise.

³ Trust in the Lord, and do good;
Dwell in the land, and feed on His faithfulness.
^4 (AB)Delight yourself also in the Lord,
And He shall give you the desires of your ^(AC)heart.

^5 (AD)Commit^[k] your way to the Lord,
Trust also in Him,
And He shall bring it to pass.
^6 (AE)He shall bring forth your righteousness as the light,
And your justice as the noonday.

⁷ Rest in the Lord, ^(AF)and wait patiently for Him;
Do not fret because of him who ^(AG)prospers in his way,
Because of the man who brings wicked schemes to pass.
^8 (AH)Cease from anger, and forsake wrath;
^(AI)Do not fret—it only causes harm.

⁹ For evildoers shall be ^[l]cut off;
But those who wait on the Lord,
They shall ^(AJ)inherit the earth.
¹⁰ For ^(AK)yet a little while and the wicked shall be no more;
Indeed, ^(AL)you will look carefully for his place,
But it shall be no more.
^11 (AM)But the meek shall inherit the earth,
And shall delight themselves in the abundance of peace.

¹² The wicked plots against the just,
^(AN)And gnashes at him with his teeth.
^13 (AO)The Lord laughs at him,
For He sees that ^(AP)his day is coming.
¹⁴ The wicked have drawn the sword
And have bent their bow,
To cast down the poor and needy,
To slay those who are of upright conduct.
¹⁵ Their sword shall enter their own heart,
And their bows shall be broken.

^16 (AQ)A little that a righteous man has
Is better than the riches of many wicked.
¹⁷ For the arms of the wicked shall be broken,
But the Lord upholds the righteous.

¹⁸ The Lord knows the days of the upright,
And their inheritance shall be forever.
¹⁹ They shall not be ashamed in the evil time,
And in the days of famine they shall be satisfied.
²⁰ But the wicked shall perish;
And the enemies of the Lord,
Like the splendor of the meadows, shall vanish.
Into smoke they shall vanish away.

²¹ The wicked borrows and does not repay,
But ^(AR)the righteous shows mercy and gives.
^22 (AS)For those blessed by Him shall inherit the earth,
But those cursed by Him shall be ^[m]cut off.

^23 (AT)The steps of a good man are ^[n]ordered by the Lord,
And He delights in his way.
^24 (AU)Though he fall, he shall not be utterly cast down;
For the Lord upholds him with His hand.

²⁵ I have been young, and now am old;
Yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken,
Nor his descendants begging bread.
^26 (AV)He is ^[o]ever merciful, and lends;
And his descendants are blessed.

²⁷ Depart from evil, and do good;
And dwell forevermore.
²⁸ For the Lord loves justice,
And does not forsake His saints;
They are preserved forever,
But the descendants of the wicked shall be cut off.
^29 (AW)The righteous shall inherit the land,
And dwell in it forever.

^30 (AX)The mouth of the righteous speaks wisdom,
And his tongue talks of justice.
³¹ The law of his God is in his heart;
None of his steps shall ^[p]slide.

³² The wicked ^(AY)watches the righteous,
And seeks to slay him.
³³ The Lord ^(AZ)will not leave him in his hand,
Nor condemn him when he is judged.

^34 (BA)Wait on the Lord,
And keep His way,
And He shall exalt you to inherit the land;
When the wicked are cut off, you shall see it.
³⁵ I have seen the wicked in great power,
And spreading himself like a native green tree.
³⁶ Yet ^[q]he passed away, and behold, he was no more;
Indeed I sought him, but he could not be found.

³⁷ Mark the blameless man, and observe the upright;
For the future of that man is peace.
^38 (BB)But the transgressors shall be destroyed together;
The future of the wicked shall be cut off.

³⁹ But the salvation of the righteous is from the Lord;
He is their strength ^(BC)in the time of trouble.
⁴⁰ And ^(BD)the Lord shall help them and deliver them;
He shall deliver them from the wicked,
And save them,
^(BE)Because they trust in Him.