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[[To him that excelleth.] A Psalm Chapter of David.]
[1] In thee, O Lord, have I put my trust: let me never be confounded: deliver me in thy righteousness.
[2] Bow down thine ear to me: make haste to deliver me: be unto me a strong rock, and an house of defense to save me.
[3] For thou art my rock and my fortress: therefore for thy name's sake direct me and guide me.
[4] Draw me out of the net, that they have laid privily for me: for thou art my strength.
[5] Into thine hand I commend my spirit: for thou hast redeemed me, O Lord God of truth.
[6] I have hated them that give themselves to deceitful vanities: for I trust in the Lord.
[7] I will be glad and rejoice in thy mercy: for thou hast seen my trouble: thou hast known my soul in adversities,
[8] And thou hast not shut me up in the hand of the enemy, but hast set my feet at large.
[9] Have mercy upon me, O Lord: for I am in trouble: mine eye, my soul and my belly are consumed with grief.
[10] For my life is wasted with heaviness, and my years with mourning: my strength faileth for my pain, and my bones are consumed.
[11] I was a reproach among all mine enemies, but specially among my neighbors: and a fear to mine acquaintance, who seeing me in the street, fled from me.
[12] I am forgotten, as a dead man out of mind: I am like a broken vessel.
[13] For I have heard the railing of great men: fear was on every side, while they conspired together against me, and consulted to take my life.
[14] But I trusted in thee, O Lord: I said, Thou art my God.
[15] My times are in thine hand: deliver me from the hand of mine enemies, and from them that persecute me.
[16] Make thy face to shine upon thy servant, and save me through thy mercy.
[17] Let me not be confounded, O Lord: for I have called upon thee: let the wicked be put to confusion, and to silence in the grave.
[18] Let the lying lips be made dumb, which cruelly, proudly and spitefully speak against the righteous.
[19] How great is thy goodness, which thou hast laid up for them, that fear thee! And done to them, that trust in thee, even before the sons of men!
[20] Thou dost hide them privily in thy presence from the pride of men: thou keepest them secretly in thy tabernacle from the strife of tongues.
[21] Blessed be the Lord: for he hath showed his marvelous kindness toward me in a strong city.
[22] Though I said in mine haste, I am cast out of thy sight, yet thou heardest the voice of my prayer, when I cried unto thee.
[23] Love ye the Lord all his saints: for the Lord preserveth the faithful, and rewardeth abundantly the proud doer.
[24] All ye that trust in the Lord, be strong, and he shall establish your heart.
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