1To the leader. A psalm of David.
2In you, YHWH, I have taken refuge; let me not be ashamed forever; in your righteousness deliver me.
3Incline your ear to me, deliver me speedily; be to me a rock of refuge, a house of fortresses to save me (yasha).
4For my rock and my fortress are you; and for the sake of your name lead me and guide me.
5Bring me out from the net which they hid for me, for you are my stronghold.
6Into your hand I commit my spirit (ruach); you have redeemed me, YHWH, God of truth.
7I have hated those who keep worthless vanities; but I, in YHWH I have trusted.
8I will be glad and rejoice in your lovingkindness, for you have seen my affliction; you have known the distresses of my soul (nephesh).
9And you have not delivered me up into the hand of the enemy; you have set my feet in a broad place.
10Be gracious to me, YHWH, for I am in distress; my eye wastes away with grief, my soul (nephesh) and my belly.
11For my life (chai) is consumed in sorrow, and my years in sighing; my strength fails in my iniquity, and my bones waste away.
12Because of all my adversaries I have become a reproach, and to my neighbors exceedingly, and a dread to my acquaintances; those who see me in the street flee from me.
13I am forgotten like a dead man out of mind; I have become like a perishing vessel.
14For I have heard the slander of many — terror all around — while they conspired together against me; to take my soul (nephesh) they schemed.
15But I, in you I have trusted, YHWH; I have said, "You are my God."
16In your hand are my times; deliver me from the hand of my enemies and from those who pursue me.
17Make your face shine upon your servant; save me (yasha) in your lovingkindness.
18YHWH, let me not be ashamed, for I have called upon you; let the wicked be ashamed, let them be silenced to Sheol.
19Let the lips of falsehood be made dumb, which speak insolently against the righteous, with pride and contempt.
20How great is your goodness, which you have stored up for those who fear you, which you have wrought for those who take refuge in you, before the sons of man (adam).
21You hide them in the secret of your presence from the plots of man (ish); you conceal them in a booth from the strife of tongues.
22Blessed be YHWH, for he has made his lovingkindness wondrous to me in a besieged city.
23But I, I said in my haste, "I am cut off from before your eyes"; yet you heard the voice of my supplications when I cried to you.
24Love YHWH, all his godly ones; YHWH preserves the faithful, and repays abundantly the one who acts in pride.
25Be strong, and let your heart be courageous, all you who wait for YHWH.