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| [1]O Lord, I have hoped in thee; let me never be ashamed: deliver me in thy righteousness and rescue me. |
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| [2]Incline thine ear to me; make haste to rescue me: be thou to me for a protecting God, and for a house of refuge to save me. |
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| [3]For thou art my strength and my refuge; and thou shalt guide me for thy name's sake, and maintain me. |
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| [4]Thou shalt bring me out of the snare which they have hidden for me; for thou, O Lord, art my defender. |
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| [5]Into thine hands I will commit my spirit: thou hast redeemed me, O Lord God of truth. |
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| [6]Thou has hated them that idly persist in vanities: but I have hoped in the Lord. |
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| [7]I will exult and be glad in thy mercy: for thou hast looked upon mine affliction; thou hast saved my soul from distresses. |
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| [8]And thou hast not shut me up into the hands of the enemy: thou hast set my feet in a wide place. |
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| [9]Pity me, O Lord, for I am afflicted: my eye is troubled with indignation, my soul and by belly. |
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| [10]For my life is spent with grief, and my years with groanings: my strength has been weakened through poverty, and my bones are troubled. |
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| [11]I became a reproach among all mine enemies, but exceedingly so to my neighbours, and a fear to mine acquaintance: they that saw me without fled from me. |
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| [12]I have been forgotten as a dead man out of mind: I am become as a broken vessel. |
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| [13]For I heard the slander of many that dwelt round about: when they were gathered together against me, they took counsel to take my life. |
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| [14]But I hoped in thee, O Lord: I said, Thou art my God. |
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| [15]My lots are in thy hands: deliver me from the hand of mine enemies, |
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| [16]and from them that persecute me. Make thy face to shine upon thy servant: save me in thy mercy. |
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| [17]O Lord, let me not be ashamed, for I have called upon thee: let the ungodly be ashamed, and brought down to Hades. |
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| [18]Let the deceitful lips become dumb, which speak iniquity against the righteous with pride and scorn. |
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| [19]How abundant is the multitude of thy goodness, O Lord, which thou hast laid up for them that fear thee! thou hast wrought it out for them that hope on thee, in the presence of the sons of men. |
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| [20]Thou wilt hide them in the secret of thy presence from the vexation of man: thou wilt screen them in a tabernacle from the contradiction of tongues. |
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| [21]Blessed be the Lord: for he has magnified his mercy in a fortified city. |
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| [22]But I said in my extreme fear, I am cast out from the sight of thine eyes: therefore thou didst hearken, O Lord, to the voice of my supplication when I cried to thee. |
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| [23]Love the Lord, all ye his saints: for the Lord seeks for truth, and renders a reward to them that deal very proudly. |
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| [24]Be of good courage, and let your heart be strengthened, all ye that hope in the Lord. |
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