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¹In thee, O LORD, do I put my trust;

Let me never be ashamed: deliver me in thy righteousness.

²Bow down thine ear to me; deliver me speedily:

Be thou my strong rock, for an house of defence to save me.

³For thou art my rock and my fortress;

Therefore for thy name's sake lead me, and guide me.

⁴Pull me out of the net that they have laid privily for me:

For thou art my strength.

⁵Into thine hand I commit my spirit:

Thou hast redeemed me, O LORD God of truth.

⁶I have hated them that regard lying vanities:

But I trust in the LORD.

⁷I will be glad and rejoice in thy mercy:

For thou hast considered my trouble; thou hast known my soul in adversities;

⁸And hast not shut me up into the hand of the enemy:

Thou hast set my feet in a large room.

⁹Have mercy upon me, O LORD, for I am in trouble:

Mine eye is consumed with grief, yea, my soul and my belly.

¹⁰For my life is spent with grief,

And my years with sighing:

My strength faileth because of mine iniquity,

And my bones are consumed.

¹¹I was a reproach among all mine enemies, but especially among my neighbours,

And a fear to mine acquaintance: they that did see me without fled from me.

¹²I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind:

I am like a broken vessel.

¹³For I have heard the slander of many:

Fear was on every side: while they took counsel together against me, They devised to take away my life.

¹⁴But I trusted in thee, O LORD:

I said, Thou art my God.

¹⁵My times are in thy hand:

Deliver me from the hand of mine enemies, and from them that persecute me.

¹⁶Make thy face to shine upon thy servant:

Save me for thy mercies' sake.

¹⁷Let me not be ashamed, O LORD; for I have called upon thee:

Let the wicked be ashamed, and let them be silent in the grave.

¹⁸Let the lying lips be put to silence;

Which speak grievous things proudly and contemptuously against the righteous.

¹⁹Oh how great is thy goodness, which thou hast laid up for them that fear thee;

Which thou hast wrought for them that trust in thee before the sons of men!

²⁰Thou shalt hide them in the secret of thy presence from the pride of man:

Thou shalt keep them secretly in a pavilion from the strife of tongues.

²¹Blessed be the LORD:

For he hath shewed me his marvellous kindness in a strong city.

²²For I said in my haste,

I am cut off from before thine eyes:

Nevertheless thou heardest the voice of

My supplications when I cried unto thee.

²³O love the LORD, all ye his saints:

For the LORD preserveth the faithful, and plentifully rewardeth the proud doer.

²⁴Be of good courage, and he shall strengthen your heart,

All ye that hope in the LORD.