³Yea, you are my rock and my fortress;
for your name's sake lead me and guide me,
⁴take me out of the net which is hidden for me,
for you are my refuge.
⁵Into your hand I commit my spirit;
you have redeemed me, O Yahweh, faithful God.

⁶You hate those who pay regard to vain idols;
but I trust in Yahweh.
⁷I will rejoice and be glad for your steadfast love,
because you have seen my affliction,
you have taken heed of my adversities,
⁸and have not delivered me into the hand of the enemy;
you have set my feet in a broad place.

⁹Be gracious to me, O Yahweh, for I am in distress;
my eye is wasted from grief, my soul and my body also.
¹⁰For my life is spent with sorrow, and my years with sighing;
my strength fails because of my misery, and my bones waste away.

¹¹I am the scorn of all my adversaries,
a horror to my neighbours,
an object of dread to my acquaintances;
those who see me in the street flee from me.
¹²I have passed out of mind like one who is dead;
I have become like a broken vessel.
¹³Yea, I hear the whispering of many - terror on every side!
- as they scheme together against me, as they plot to take my life.

¹⁴But I trust in you, O Yahweh,
I say, "You are my God."
¹⁵My times are in your hand;
deliver me from the hand of my enemies and persecutors!
¹⁶Let your face shine on your servant;
save me in your steadfast love!
¹⁷Let me not be put to shame, O Yahweh, for I call on you;
let the wicked be put to shame, let them go dumbfounded to Sheol.
¹⁸Let the lying lips be dumb,
which speak insolently against the righteous in pride and contempt.

¹⁹O how abundant is your goodness, which you have laid up for those who fear you,
and wrought for those who take refuge in you, in the sight of the sons of men!
²⁰In the covert of your presence you hide them from the plots of men;
you hold them safe under your shelter from the strife of tongues.

²¹Blessed be Yahweh,
for he has wondrously shown his steadfast love to me
when I was beset as in a besieged city.
²²I had said in my alarm, "I am driven far from your sight."
But you heard my supplications, when I cried to you for help.

²³Love Yahweh, all you his saints!
Yahweh preserves the faithful,
but abundantly requites him who acts haughtily.
²⁴Be strong, and let your heart take courage,
all you who wait for Yahweh!