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,

When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place,

“Because the poor are plundered, because the needy groan, I will now arise,” says the Lord; “I will place him in the safety for which he longs.”

which comes out like a bridegroom leaving his chamber, and, like a strong man, runs its course with joy.

Let the lying lips be mute, which speak insolently against the righteous in pride and contempt.

Oh, how abundant is your goodness, which you have stored up for those who fear you and worked for those who take refuge in you, in the sight of the children of mankind!

Be not like a horse or a mule, without understanding, which must be curbed with bit and bridle, or it will not stay near you.

As we have heard, so have we seen in the city of the Lord of hosts, in the city of our God, which God will establish forever. Selah

that which my lips uttered and my mouth promised when I was in trouble.

Summon your power, O God, the power, O God, by which you have worked for us.

Be to me a rock of refuge, to which I may continually come; you have given the command to save me, for you are my rock and my fortress.

My lips will shout for joy, when I sing praises to you; my soul also, which you have redeemed.

Remember your congregation, which you have purchased of old, which you have redeemed to be the tribe of your heritage! Remember Mount Zion, where you have dwelt.

Do not forget the clamor of your foes, the uproar of those who rise against you, which goes up continually!

He established a testimony in Jacob and appointed a law in Israel, which he commanded our fathers to teach to their children,

He sent among them swarms of flies, which devoured them, and frogs, which destroyed them.

And he brought them to his holy land, to the mountain which his right hand had won.

but he chose the tribe of Judah, Mount Zion, which he loves.

He built his sanctuary like the high heavens, like the earth, which he has founded forever.

Return sevenfold into the lap of our neighbors the taunts with which they have taunted you, O Lord!

Lord, where is your steadfast love of old, which by your faithfulness you swore to David?

with which your enemies mock, O Lord, with which they mock the footsteps of your anointed.

Here is the sea, great and wide, which teems with creatures innumerable, living things both small and great.

There go the ships, and Leviathan, which you formed to play in it.

which he confirmed to Jacob as a statute, to Israel as an everlasting covenant,

which devoured all the vegetation in their land and ate up the fruit of their ground.

They served their idols, which became a snare to them.

For he commanded and raised the stormy wind, which lifted up the waves of the sea.

for I find my delight in your commandments, which I love.

I will lift up my hands toward your commandments, which I love, and I will meditate on your statutes.

Zayin

Remember your word to your servant, in which you have made me hope.

to which the tribes go up, the tribes of the Lord, as was decreed for Israel, to give thanks to the name of the Lord.

The Lord Surrounds His People

A Song of Ascents.

Those who trust in the Lord are like Mount Zion, which cannot be moved, but abides forever.

Let them be like the grass on the housetops, which withers before it grows up,

with which the reaper does not fill his hand nor the binder of sheaves his arms,

The Lord swore to David a sure oath from which he will not turn back: “One of the sons of your body I will set on your throne.

It is like the dew of Hermon, which falls on the mountains of Zion! For there the Lord has commanded the blessing, life forevermore.