To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. In thee, O LORD,
do I put my trust; let me never be ashamed:
deliver me in thy righteousness.
Bow down thine ear to me; deliver me speedily:
be thou my strong rock, for an house of defence to save me.
For thou art my rock and my fortress; therefore
for thy name's sake lead me, and guide me.
Pull me out of the net that they have laid privily for me:
for thou art my strength.
Into thine hand I commit my spirit: thou hast redeemed me,
O LORD God of truth.
I have hated them that regard lying vanities:
but I trust in the LORD.
I will be glad and rejoice in thy mercy:
for thou hast considered my trouble;
thou hast known my soul in adversities;
And hast not shut me up into the hand of the enemy:
thou hast set my feet in a large room.
Have mercy upon me, O LORD, for I am in trouble:
mine eye is consumed with grief, yea, my soul and my belly.
For my life is spent with grief, and my years with sighing:
my strength faileth because of mine iniquity,
and my bones are consumed.
I was a reproach among all mine enemies,
but especially among my neighbours, and a fear to mine acquaintance:
they that did see me without fled from me.
I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind: I am like a broken vessel.
For I have heard the slander of many:
fear was on every side: while they took counsel together against me,
they devised to take away my life.
But I trusted in thee, O LORD: I said, Thou art my God.
My times are in thy hand: deliver me from the hand of mine enemies,
and from them that persecute me.
Make thy face to shine upon thy servant:
save me for thy mercies' sake.
Let me not be ashamed, O LORD; for I have called upon thee:
let the wicked be ashamed, and let them be silent in the grave.
Let the lying lips be put to silence; which speak grievous things
proudly and contemptuously against the righteous.
Oh how great is thy goodness, which thou hast laid up for them
that fear thee; which thou hast wrought for them that trust in thee
before the sons of men!
Thou shalt hide them in the secret of thy presence from the
pride of man: thou shalt keep them secretly in a pavilion from
the strife of tongues.
Blessed be the LORD: for he hath showed me his marvellous
kindness in a strong city.
For I said in my haste, I am cut off from before thine eyes:
nevertheless thou heardest the voice of my supplications
when I cried unto thee.
O love the LORD, all ye his saints: for the LORD preserveth the
faithful, and plentifully rewardeth the proud doer.
Be of good courage, and he shall strengthen your heart,
all ye that hope in the LORD.
To the chief Musician, A Psalm for the sons of Korah.
LORD, thou hast been favourable unto thy land: thou hast brought
back the captivity of Jacob.
Thou hast forgiven the iniquity of thy people, thou hast covered
all their sin. Selah.
Thou hast taken away all thy wrath: thou hast turned thyself from
the fierceness of thine anger.
Turn us, O God of our salvation, and cause thine anger toward us
to cease.
Wilt thou be angry with us for ever? wilt thou draw out thine
anger to all generations?
Wilt thou not revive us again: that thy people may rejoice in thee?
Show us thy mercy, O LORD, and grant us thy salvation.
I will hear what God the LORD will speak: for he will speak peace
unto his people, and to his saints: but let them not turn again to
folly.
Surely his salvation is nigh them that fear him; that glory may
dwell in our land.
Mercy and truth are met together; righteousness and peace have
kissed each other.
Truth shall spring out of the earth; and righteousness shall look
down from heaven.
Yea, the LORD shall give that which is good; and our land shall
yield her increase.
Righteousness shall go before him; and shall set us in the way of
his steps.