Save Me, O My God

A Psalm of David, when he fled from Absalom his son.

O Lord, how many are my foes! Many are rising against me;

Arise, O Lord! Save me, O my God! For you strike all my enemies on the cheek; you break the teeth of the wicked.

Give attention to the sound of my cry, my King and my God, for to you do I pray.

In You Do I Take Refuge

A Shiggaion of David, which he sang to the Lord concerning the words of Cush, a Benjaminite.

O Lord my God, in you do I take refuge; save me from all my pursuers and deliver me,

O Lord my God, if I have done this, if there is wrong in my hands,

Consider and answer me, O Lord my God; light up my eyes, lest I sleep the sleep of death,

The Lord is my rock and my fortress and my deliverer, my God, my rock, in whom I take refuge, my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold.

In my distress I called upon the Lord; to my God I cried for help. From his temple he heard my voice, and my cry to him reached his ears.

For I have kept the ways of the Lord, and have not wickedly departed from my God.

For it is you who light my lamp; the Lord my God lightens my darkness.

For by you I can run against a troop, and by my God I can leap over a wall.

Why Have You Forsaken Me?

To the choirmaster: according to The Doe of the Dawn. A Psalm of David.

My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Why are you so far from saving me, from the words of my groaning?

O my God, I cry by day, but you do not answer, and by night, but I find no rest.

On you was I cast from my birth, and from my mother's womb you have been my God.

O my God, in you I trust; let me not be put to shame; let not my enemies exult over me.

O Lord my God, I cried to you for help, and you have healed me.

that my glory may sing your praise and not be silent. O Lord my God, I will give thanks to you forever!

But I trust in you, O Lord; I say, “You are my God.”

Awake and rouse yourself for my vindication, for my cause, my God and my Lord!

Vindicate me, O Lord, my God, according to your righteousness, and let them not rejoice over me!

But for you, O Lord, do I wait; it is you, O Lord my God, who will answer.

Do not forsake me, O Lord! O my God, be not far from me!

You have multiplied, O Lord my God, your wondrous deeds and your thoughts toward us; none can compare with you! I will proclaim and tell of them, yet they are more than can be told.

I delight to do your will, O my God; your law is within my heart.”

As for me, I am poor and needy, but the Lord takes thought for me. You are my help and my deliverer; do not delay, O my God!