⁵ All day long they seek to injure my cause;
    all their thoughts are against me for evil.
⁶ They band themselves together, they lurk,
    they watch my steps.
As they have waited for my life,
⁷     so recompense^[a] them for their crime;
    in wrath cast down the peoples, O God!

⁸ Thou hast kept count of my tossings;
    put thou my tears in thy bottle!
    Are they not in thy book?
⁹ Then my enemies will be turned back
    in the day when I call.
    This I know, that^[b] God is for me.
¹⁰ In God, whose word I praise,
    in the Lord, whose word I praise,
¹¹ in God I trust without a fear.
    What can man do to me?

¹² My vows to thee I must perform, O God;
    I will render thank offerings to thee.
¹³ For thou hast delivered my soul from death,
    yea, my feet from falling,
that I may walk before God
    in the light of life.