Sirach 51:1-2

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

51 I give you thanks, O Lord and King,
    and praise you, O God my Savior.
I give thanks to your name,
²     for you have been my protector and helper
and have delivered me from destruction
    and from the trap laid by a slanderous tongue,
    from lips that fabricate lies.
In the face of my adversaries
    you have been my helper