In God I Trust

To the choirmaster: according to The Dove on Far-off Terebinths. A pMiktam1 of David, when the qPhilistines seized him in Gath.

¹rBe gracious to me, O God, for man stramples on me;

all day long an attacker oppresses me;

²my enemies trample on me all day long,

for many attack me proudly.

³When I am afraid,

I tput my trust in you.

⁴In God, whose word I praise,

in God I trust; uI shall not be afraid.

What can flesh do to me?

⁵All day long they injure my cause;2

all their thoughts are against me for evil.

⁶They vstir up strife, they wlurk;

they xwatch my steps,

as they have waited for my life.

⁷For their crime will they escape?

yIn wrath zcast down the peoples, O God!

⁸You have kept count of my tossings;3

aput my tears in your bottle.

bAre they not in your book?

⁹Then my enemies will turn back

cin the day when I call.

This I know, that4 dGod is for me.

¹⁰In God, whose word I praise,

in the Lord, whose word I praise,

¹¹in God I trust; uI shall not be afraid.

What can man do to me?

¹²I must perform my evows to you, O God;

I will erender thank offerings to you.

¹³fFor you have delivered my soul from death,

yes, my feet from falling,

gthat I may walk before God

hin the light of life.