✧1In you, LORD, I take refuge. Never let me be disappointed. ✧2Deliver me in your righteousness, and rescue me. Turn your ear to me, and save me. ✧3Be to me a rock of refuge to which I may always go. Give the command to save me, for you are my rock and my fortress. ✧4Rescue me, my God, from the hand of the wicked, from the hand of the unrighteous and cruel man. ✧5For you are my hope, Lord GOD, my confidence from my youth. ✧6I have relied on you from the womb. You are he who took me out of my mother’s womb. I will always praise you. ✧7I am a marvel to many, but you are my strong refuge. ✧8My mouth shall be filled with your praise, with your honor all day long. ✧9Don’t reject me in my old age. Don’t forsake me when my strength fails.
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✧10For my enemies talk about me. Those who watch for my soul conspire together,
✧11saying, “God has forsaken him. Pursue and take him, for no one will rescue him.”
✧12God, don’t be far from me. My God, hurry to help me.
✧13Let my accusers be disappointed and consumed. Let them be covered with disgrace and scorn who want to harm me.
✧14But I will always hope, and will add to all of your praise.
✧15My mouth will tell about your righteousness, and of your salvation all day, though I don’t know its full measure.
✧16I will come with the mighty acts of the Lord GOD. I will make mention of your righteousness, even of yours alone.
✧17God, you have taught me from my youth. Until now, I have declared your wondrous works.
✧18Yes, even when I am old and gray-haired, God, don’t forsake me, until I have declared your strength to the next generation, your might to everyone who is to come.
✧19God, your righteousness also reaches to the heavens. You have done great things. God, who is like you?
✧20You, who have shown us many and bitter troubles, you will let me live. You will bring us up again from the depths of the earth.