✧1A Poem by David. Preserve me, God, for I take refuge in you. Copy✧2My soul, you have said to the LORD, “You are my Lord. Apart from you I have no good thing.” Copy✧3As for the saints who are on the earth, they are the excellent ones in whom is all my delight. Copy✧4Their sorrows shall be multiplied who give gifts to another god. Their drink offerings of blood I will not offer, nor take their names on my lips. Copy✧5The LORD assigned my portion and my cup. You made my lot secure. Copy✧6The lines have fallen to me in pleasant places. Yes, I have a good inheritance. Copy✧7I will bless the LORD, who has given me counsel. Yes, my heart instructs me in the night seasons. Copy✧8I have set the LORD always before me. Because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved. Copy