For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David.
1In You, Lord, I take refuge.
Let me never be disappointed.
Deliver me in Your righteousness.
2Bow down Your ear to me.
Deliver me speedily.
Be to me a strong rock,
a house of defense to save me.
3For You are my rock and my fortress,
therefore for Your name’s sake lead me and guide me.
4Pluck me out of the net that they have laid secretly for me,
for You are my stronghold.
5Into Your hand I commend my spirit.
You redeem me, Lord, God of truth.
6I hate those who regard lying vanities,
but I trust in the Lord.
7I will be glad and rejoice in Your loving kindness,
for You have seen my affliction.
You have known my soul in adversities.
8You have not shut me up into the hand of the enemy.
You have set my feet in a large place.
9Have mercy on me, Lord, for I am in distress.
My eye, my soul, and my body waste away with grief.
10For my life is spent with sorrow,
my years with sighing.
My strength fails because of my iniquity.
My bones are wasted away.
11Because of all my adversaries I have become utterly contemptible to my neighbors,
a horror to my acquaintances.
Those who saw me on the street fled from me.
12I am forgotten from their hearts like a dead man.
I am like broken pottery.
13For I have heard the slander of many, terror on every side,
while they conspire together against me,
they plot to take away my life.
14But I trust in You, Lord.
I said, “You are my God.”
15My times are in Your hand.
Deliver me from the hand of my enemies, and from those who persecute me.
16Make Your face to shine on Your servant.
Save me in Your loving kindness.
17Let me not be disappointed, Lord, for I have called on You.
Let the wicked be disappointed.
Let them be silent in Sheol.
18Let the lying lips be mute,
which speak against the righteous insolently, with pride and contempt.
19Oh how great is Your goodness,
which You have laid up for those who fear You,
which You have worked for those who take refuge in You,
before the sons of men!
20In the shelter of Your presence You will hide them from the plotting of man.
You will keep them secretly in a dwelling away from the strife of tongues.
21Praise be to the Lord,
for He has shown me His marvelous loving kindness in a strong city.
22As for me, I said in my haste, “I am cut off from before Your eyes.”
Nevertheless You heard the voice of my petitions when I cried to You.
23Oh love the Lord, all you His saints!
The Lord preserves the faithful,
and fully recompenses him who behaves arrogantly.
24Be strong, and let your heart take courage,
all you who hope in the Lord.
1In finem. Psalmus David, pro extasi.
2In te, Domine, speravi; non confundar in æternum: in justitia tua libera me. 3Inclina ad me aurem tuam; accelera ut eruas me. Esto mihi in Deum protectorem, et in domum refugii, ut salvum me facias: 4quoniam fortitudo mea et refugium meum es tu; et propter nomen tuum deduces me et enutries me. 5Educes me de laqueo hoc quem absconderunt mihi, quoniam tu es protector meus. 6In manus tuas commendo spiritum meum; redemisti me, Domine Deus veritatis. 7Odisti observantes vanitates supervacue; ego autem in Domino speravi. 8Exsultabo, et lætabor in misericordia tua, quoniam respexisti humilitatem meam; salvasti de necessitatibus animam meam. 9Nec conclusisti me in manibus inimici: statuisti in loco spatioso pedes meos. 10Miserere mei, Domine, quoniam tribulor; conturbatus est in ira oculus meus, anima mea, et venter meus. 11Quoniam defecit in dolore vita mea, et anni mei in gemitibus. Infirmata est in paupertate virtus mea, et ossa mea conturbata sunt. 12Super omnes inimicos meos factus sum opprobrium, et vicinis meis valde, et timor notis meis; qui videbant me foras fugerunt a me. 13Oblivioni datus sum, tamquam mortuus a corde; factus sum tamquam vas perditum: 14quoniam audivi vituperationem multorum commorantium in circuitu. In eo dum convenirent simul adversum me, accipere animam meam consiliati sunt. 15Ego autem in te speravi, Domine; dixi: Deus meus es tu; 16in manibus tuis sortes meæ: eripe me de manu inimicorum meorum, et a persequentibus me. 17Illustra faciem tuam super servum tuum; salvum me fac in misericordia tua. 18Domine, non confundar, quoniam invocavi te. Erubescant impii, et deducantur in infernum; 19muta fiant labia dolosa, quæ loquuntur adversus justum iniquitatem, in superbia, et in abusione. 20Quam magna multitudo dulcedinis tuæ, Domine, quam abscondisti timentibus te; perfecisti eis qui sperant in te in conspectu filiorum hominum! 21Abscondes eos in abscondito faciei tuæ a conturbatione hominum; proteges eos in tabernaculo tuo, a contradictione linguarum. 22Benedictus Dominus, quoniam mirificavit misericordiam suam mihi in civitate munita. 23Ego autem dixi in excessu mentis meæ: Projectus sum a facie oculorum tuorum: ideo exaudisti vocem orationis meæ, dum clamarem ad te. 24Diligite Dominum, omnes sancti ejus, quoniam veritatem requiret Dominus, et retribuet abundanter facientibus superbiam. 25Viriliter agite, et confortetur cor vestrum, omnes qui speratis in Domino.