1. O Lord my God, in thee do Imy confidence repose:Save and deliver me from allmy persecuting foes;
2. Lest that the enemy my soulshould, like a lion, tear,In pieces rending it, while thereis no deliverer.
3. O Lord my God, if it be sothat I committed this;If it be so that in my handsiniquity there is:
4. If I rewarded ill to himthat was at peace with me;(Yea, ev'n the man that without causemy foe was I did free;)
5. Then let the foe pursue and takemy soul, and my life thrustDown to the earth,and let him lay mine honour in the dust.
6. Rise in thy wrath, Lord, raise thyself,for my foes raging be;And, to the judgment which thou hastcommanded, wake for me.
7. So shall th' assembly of thy folkabout encompass thee:Thou, therefore, for their sakes, returnunto thy place on high.
8. The Lord he shall the people judge:my judge, JEHOVAH, be,After my righteousness, and mineintegrity in me.
9. O let the wicked's malice end;but stablish stedfastlyThe righteous: for the righteous Godthe hearts and reins doth try.
10. In God, who saves th' upright in heart,is my defence and stay.
11. God just men judgeth, God is wrothwith ill men ev'ry day.
12. If he do not return again,then he his sword will whet;His bow he hath already bent,and hath it ready set:
13. He also hath for him prepar'dthe instruments of death;Against the persecutors hehis shafts ordained hath.
14. Behold, he with iniquitydoth travail, as in birth;A mischief he conceived hath,and falsehood shall bring forth.
15. He made a pit and digg'd it deep,another there to take;But he is fall'n into the ditchwhich he himself did make.
16. Upon his own head his mischiefshall be returned home;His vi'lent dealing also downon his own pate shall come.
17. According to his righteousnessthe Lord I'll magnify;And will sing praise unto the nameof God that is most high.