1Be merciful to me, God, for man wants to swallow me up.
All day long, he attacks and oppresses me.
2My enemies want to swallow me up all day long,
for they are many who fight proudly against me.
3When I am afraid,
I will put my trust in you.
4In God, I praise his word.
In God, I put my trust.
I will not be afraid.
What can flesh do to me?
5All day long they twist my words.
All their thoughts are against me for evil.
6They conspire and lurk,
watching my steps, they are eager to take my life.
7Shall they escape by iniquity?
In anger cast down the peoples, God.
8You count my wanderings.
You put my tears into your bottle.
Aren’t they in your book?
9Then my enemies shall turn back in the day that I call.
I know this, that God is for me.
10In God, I will praise his word.
In Yahweh, I will praise his word.
11I have put my trust in God.
I will not be afraid.
What can man do to me?
12Your vows are on me, God.
I will give thank offerings to you.
13For you have delivered my soul from death,
and prevented my feet from falling,
that I may walk before God in the light of the living.
1Be merciful to me, God, be merciful to me,
for my soul takes refuge in you.
Yes, in the shadow of your wings, I will take refuge,
until disaster has passed.
2I cry out to God Most High,
to God who accomplishes my requests for me.
3He will send from heaven, and save me,
he rebukes the one who is pursuing me.
Selah.
God will send out his loving kindness and his truth.
4My soul is among lions.
I lie among those who are set on fire,
even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows,
and their tongue a sharp sword.
5Be exalted, God, above the heavens!
Let your glory be above all the earth!
6They have prepared a net for my steps.
My soul is bowed down.
They dig a pit before me.
They fall into the middle of it themselves.
Selah.
7My heart is steadfast, God, my heart is steadfast.
I will sing, yes, I will sing praises.
8Wake up, my glory! Wake up, lute and harp!
I will wake up the dawn.
9I will give thanks to you, Lord, among the peoples.
I will sing praises to you among the nations.
10For your great loving kindness reaches to the heavens,
and your truth to the skies.
11Be exalted, God, above the heavens.
Let your glory be over all the earth.
1Do you indeed speak righteousness, silent ones?
Do you judge blamelessly, you sons of men?
2No, in your heart you plot injustice.
You measure out the violence of your hands in the earth.
3The wicked go astray from the womb.
They are wayward as soon as they are born, speaking lies.
4Their poison is like the poison of a snake;
like a deaf cobra that stops its ear,
5which doesn’t listen to the voice of charmers,
no matter how skillful the charmer may be.
6Break their teeth, God, in their mouth.
Break out the great teeth of the young lions, Yahweh.
7Let them vanish like water that flows away.
When they draw the bow, let their arrows be made blunt.
8Let them be like a snail which melts and passes away,
like the stillborn child, who has not seen the sun.
9Before your pots can feel the heat of the thorns,
he will sweep away the green and the burning alike.
10The righteous shall rejoice when he sees the vengeance.
He shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked;
11so that men shall say, “Most certainly there is a reward for the righteous.
Most certainly there is a God who judges the earth.”