1 I have a safe place in you, O Lord. Let me never be ashamed.

In Thee, O Jehovah, I have trusted, Let me not be ashamed to the age.

2 B ecause You are right and good, take me out of trouble. Turn Your ear to me and save me.

In Thy righteousness Thou dost deliver me, And dost cause me to escape, Incline unto me Thine ear, and save me.

3 B e a rock to me where I live, where I may always come and where I will be safe. For You are my rock and my safe place.

Be to me for a rock -- a habitation, To go in continually, Thou hast given command to save me, For my rock and my bulwark Thou.

4 O my God, take me from the hand of the sinful, from the hand of the wrong-doer and the man without pity.

O my God, cause me to escape From the hand of the wicked, From the hand of the perverse and violent.

5 F or You are my hope, O Lord God. You are my trust since I was young.

For Thou my hope, O Lord Jehovah, My trust from my youth.

6 Y ou have kept me safe from birth. It was You Who watched over me from the day I was born. My praise is always of You.

By Thee I have been supported from the womb, From my mother's bowels Thou dost cut me out, In Thee my praise continually.

7 I have become a wonder and surprise to many. For You are my strong safe place.

As a wonder I have been to many, And Thou my strong refuge.

8 M y mouth is filled with Your praise and with Your honor all day long.

Filled is my mouth Thy praise, All the day Thy beauty.

9 D o not let me fall by the way when I am old. Do not leave me alone when my strength is gone.

Cast me not off at the time of old age, According to the consumption of my power forsake me not.

10 F or those who hate me talk against me. Those who want to kill make plans together.

For mine enemies have spoken against me, And those watching my soul have taken counsel together,

11 T hey say, “God has turned away from him. Run and catch him, for there is no one to take him out of trouble.”

Saying, `God hath forsaken him, Pursue and catch him, for there is no deliverer.'

12 O God, do not be far from me! O my God, hurry to help me!

O God, be not far from me, O my God, for my help make haste.

13 L et those who are against me be ashamed and destroyed. Let those who want to hurt me be without honor and covered with shame.

They are ashamed, they are consumed, Who are opposing my soul, They are covered reproach and blushing, Who are seeking my evil,

14 B ut as for me, I will always have hope and I will praise You more and more.

And I continually do wait with hope, And have added unto all Thy praise.

15 M y mouth will tell about how right and good You are and about Your saving acts all day long. For there are more than I can know.

My mouth recounteth Thy righteousness, All the day Thy salvation, For I have not known the numbers.

16 I will come in the strength of the Lord God. I will tell about how right and good You are, and You alone.

I come in the might of the Lord Jehovah, I mention Thy righteousness -- Thine only.

17 O God, You have taught me from when I was young. And I still tell about Your great works.

God, Thou hast taught me from my youth, And hitherto I declare Thy wonders.

18 E ven when I am old and my hair is turning white, O God, do not leave me alone. Let me tell about Your strength to all the people living now, and about Your power to all who are to come.

And also unto old age and grey hairs, O God, forsake me not, Till I declare Thy strength to a generation, To every one that cometh Thy might.

19 O God, You are right and good, as the heavens are high. You have done great things, O God. Who is like You?

And Thy righteousness, O God, unto the heights, Because Thou hast done great things, O God, who like Thee?

20 Y ou have shown me many troubles of all kinds. But You will make me strong again. And You will bring me up again from deep in the earth.

Because Thou hast showed me many and sad distresses, Thou turnest back -- Thou revivest me, And from the depths of the earth, Thou turnest back -- Thou bringest me up.

21 A dd to my greatness, and turn to comfort me.

Thou dost increase my greatness, And Thou surroundest -- Thou comfortest me,

22 O my God, I will praise You with a harp. I will praise Your truth. I will sing praises to You with different kinds of harps, O Holy One of Israel.

I also thank Thee with a vessel of psaltery, Thy truth, O my God, I sing to Thee with a harp, O Holy One of Israel,

23 M y lips will call out for joy when I sing praises to You. You have set my soul free.

My lips cry aloud when I sing praise to Thee, And my soul that Thou hast redeemed,

24 M y tongue will tell about how right and good You are all day long. For those who want to hurt me are ashamed and troubled.

My tongue also all the day uttereth Thy righteousness, Because ashamed -- because confounded, Have been those seeking my evil!