A Miktam of David. Preserve me, O God, for in you I take refuge.
You keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on you, because he trusts in you. Trust in the Lord forever, for the Lord God is an everlasting rock.
To the choirmaster: according to The Dove on Far-off Terebinths. A Miktam of David, when the Philistines seized him in Gath. Be gracious to me, O God, for man tramples on me; all day long an attacker oppresses me;
The Lord preserves the simple; when I was brought low, he saved me.
Keep me as the apple of your eye; hide me in the shadow of your wings,
“Blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord, whose trust is the Lord. He is like a tree planted by water, that sends out its roots by the stream, and does not fear when heat comes, for its leaves remain green, and is not anxious in the year of drought, for it does not cease to bear fruit.”
O Lord of hosts, blessed is the one who trusts in you!
Love the Lord, all you his saints! The Lord preserves the faithful but abundantly repays the one who acts in pride.
which is why I suffer as I do. But I am not ashamed, for I know whom I have believed, and I am convinced that he is able to guard until that day what has been entrusted to me.
guarding the paths of justice and watching over the way of his saints.
Blessed is he whose help is the God of Jacob, whose hope is in the Lord his God,
And those who know your name put their trust in you, for you, O Lord, have not forsaken those who seek you.
A Song of Ascents. Those who trust in the Lord are like Mount Zion, which cannot be moved, but abides forever.
O you who love the Lord, hate evil! He preserves the lives of his saints; he delivers them from the hand of the wicked.
For the Lord loves justice; he will not forsake his saints. They are preserved forever, but the children of the wicked shall be cut off.
Oh, guard my soul, and deliver me! Let me not be put to shame, for I take refuge in you.
My steps have held fast to your paths; my feet have not slipped.
A Shiggaion of David, which he sang to the Lord concerning the words of Cush, a Benjaminite. O Lord my God, in you do I take refuge; save me from all my pursuers and deliver me,
To the choirmaster: according to Shushan Eduth. A Miktam of David; for instruction; when he strove with Aram-naharaim and with Aram-zobah, and when Joab on his return struck down twelve thousand of Edom in the Valley of Salt. O God, you have rejected us, broken our defenses; you have been angry; oh, restore us.
Indeed, we felt that we had received the sentence of death. But that was to make us rely not on ourselves but on God who raises the dead.
“He trusts in the Lord; let him deliver him; let him rescue him, for he delights in him!”
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