1In You, Lord, I take refuge.
Never let me be disappointed.
2Deliver me in Your righteousness, and rescue me.
Turn Your ear to me, and save me.
3Be to me a rock of refuge to which I may always go.
Give the command to save me,
for You are my rock and my fortress.
4Rescue me, my God, from the hand of the wicked,
from the hand of the unrighteous and cruel man.
5For You are my hope, Lord God,
my confidence from my youth.
6I have relied on You from the womb.
You are He who took me out of my mother’s womb.
I will always praise You.
7I am a marvel to many,
but You are my strong refuge.
8My mouth shall be filled with Your praise,
with Your honor all day long.
9Don’t reject me in my old age.
Don’t forsake me when my strength fails.
10For my enemies talk about me.
Those who watch for my soul conspire together,
11saying, “God has forsaken him.
Pursue and take him, for no one will rescue him.”
12God, don’t be far from me.
My God, hurry to help me.
13Let my accusers be disappointed and consumed.
Let them be covered with disgrace and scorn who want to harm me.
14But I will always hope,
and will add to all of Your praise.
15My mouth will tell about Your righteousness,
and of Your salvation all day,
though I don’t know its full measure.
16I will come with the mighty acts of the Lord God.
I will make mention of Your righteousness, even of Yours alone.
17God, You have taught me from my youth.
Until now, I have declared Your wondrous works.
18Yes, even when I am old and gray-haired, God, don’t forsake me,
until I have declared Your strength to the next generation,
Your might to everyone who is to come.
19God, Your righteousness also reaches to the heavens.
You have done great things.
God, who is like You?
20You, who have shown us many and bitter troubles,
You will let me live.
You will bring us up again from the depths of the earth.
21Increase my honor
and comfort me again.
22I will also praise You with the harp for Your faithfulness, my God.
I sing praises to You with the lyre, Holy One of Israel.
23My lips shall shout for joy!
My soul, which You have redeemed, sings praises to You!
24My tongue will also talk about Your righteousness all day long,
for they are disappointed, and they are confounded,
who want to harm me.
1Psalmus David, filiorum Jonadab, et priorum captivorum. In te, Domine, speravi; non confundar in æternum. 2In justitia tua libera me, et eripe me: inclina ad me aurem tuam, et salva me. 3Esto mihi in Deum protectorem, et in locum munitum, ut salvum me facias: quoniam firmamentum meum et refugium meum es tu. 4Deus meus, eripe me de manu peccatoris, et de manu contra legem agentis, et iniqui: 5quoniam tu es patientia mea, Domine; Domine, spes mea a juventute mea. 6In te confirmatus sum ex utero; de ventre matris meæ tu es protector meus; in te cantatio mea semper. 7Tamquam prodigium factus sum multis; et tu adjutor fortis. 8Repleatur os meum laude, ut cantem gloriam tuam, tota die magnitudinem tuam. 9Ne projicias me in tempore senectutis; cum defecerit virtus mea, ne derelinquas me. 10Quia dixerunt inimici mei mihi, et qui custodiebant animam meam consilium fecerunt in unum, 11dicentes: Deus dereliquit eum: persequimini et comprehendite eum, quia non est qui eripiat. 12Deus, ne elongeris a me; Deus meus, in auxilium meum respice. 13Confundantur et deficiant detrahentes animæ meæ; operiantur confusione et pudore qui quærunt mala mihi. 14Ego autem semper sperabo, et adjiciam super omnem laudem tuam. 15Os meum annuntiabit justitiam tuam, tota die salutare tuum. Quoniam non cognovi litteraturam, 16introibo in potentias Domini; Domine, memorabor justitiæ tuæ solius. 17Deus, docuisti me a juventute mea; et usque nunc pronuntiabo mirabilia tua. 18Et usque in senectam et senium, Deus, ne derelinquas me, donec annuntiem brachium tuum generationi omni quæ ventura est, potentiam tuam, 19et justitiam tuam, Deus, usque in altissima; quæ fecisti magnalia, Deus: quis similis tibi? 20Quantas ostendisti mihi tribulationes multas et malas! et conversus vivificasti me, et de abyssis terræ iterum reduxisti me. 21Multiplicasti magnificentiam tuam; et conversus consolatus es me. 22Nam et ego confitebor tibi in vasis psalmi veritatem tuam, Deus; psallam tibi in cithara, sanctus Israël. 23Exsultabunt labia mea cum cantavero tibi; et anima mea quam redemisti. 24Sed et lingua mea tota die meditabitur justitiam tuam, cum confusi et reveriti fuerint qui quærunt mala mihi.