1For the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David. In you, O Yahweh, I take refuge; Let me never be put to shame: Deliver me in your righteousness. 2Bow down your ear to me; deliver me speedily: Be to me a strong rock, A house of defense to save me. 3For you are my rock and my fortress; Therefore for your name's sake lead me and guide me. 4Pluck me out of the net that they have laid secretly for me; For you are my stronghold. 5Into your hand I commend my spirit: You have redeemed me, O Yahweh, you God of truth. 6I hate those who regard lying vanities; But I trust in Yahweh. 7I will be glad and rejoice in your loving-kindness; For you have seen my affliction: You have known my soul in adversities; 8And you have not shut me up into the hand of the enemy; You have set my feet in a large place. 9Have mercy on me, O Yahweh, for I am in distress: My eye wastes away with grief, [yes], my soul and my body. 10For my life is spent with sorrow, And my years with sighing: My strength fails because of my iniquity, And my bones are wasted away. 11Because of all my adversaries I have become a reproach, Yes, to my neighbors exceedingly, And a fear to my acquaintance: Those who saw me outside fled from me. 12I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind: I am like a broken vessel. 13For I have heard the defaming of many, Terror on every side: While they took counsel together against me, They devised to take away my life. 14But I trusted in you, O Yahweh: I said, You are my God. 15My times are in your hand: Deliver me from the hand of my enemies, and from those who persecute me. 16Make your face to shine on your slave: Save me in your loving-kindness. 17Don't let me be put to shame, O Yahweh; for I have called on you: Let the wicked be put to shame, let them be silent in Sheol. 18Let the lying lips be mute, Which speak against the righteous insolently, With pride and contempt. 19Oh how great is your goodness, Which you have laid up for those who fear you, Which you have wrought for those who take refuge in you, Before the sons of man! 20In the covert of your presence you will hide them from the plottings of man: You will keep them secretly in a pavilion from the strife of tongues. 21Blessed be Yahweh; For he has shown me his marvelous loving-kindness in a strong city. 22As for me, I said in my haste, I am cut off from before your eyes: Nevertheless you heard the voice of my supplications When I cried to you. 23Oh love Yahweh, all you{+} his saints: Yahweh preserves the faithful, And plentifully rewards him who deals proudly. 24Be strong, and let your{+} heart take courage, All you{+} who hope in Yahweh.