Psalm

 3 Become for me a rock fortress

Where I can always enter.

Give the command to save me,

For you are my crag and my stronghold.+

 4 O my God, rescue me from the hand of the wicked,+

From the grasp of the unjust oppressor.

 5 For you are my hope, O Sovereign Lord Jehovah;

I have trusted in you* since my youth.+

 6 I have depended on you from birth;

It was you who took me from my mother’s womb.+

 7 I have become like a miracle to many,

But you are my strong refuge.

 8 My mouth is filled with your praise;+

All day long I tell about your splendor.

 9 Do not cast me off in my old age;+

Do not abandon me when my strength fails.+

10 My enemies speak against me,

And those seeking to take my life* conspire together,+

11 Saying: “God has abandoned him.

13 May those who are resisting me*

Be put to shame and perish.+

May those seeking my calamity

Be covered with disgrace and humiliation.+

14 But as for me, I will continue to wait;

I will add to your praise.

15 My mouth will recount your righteousness,+

All day long your acts of salvation,

Though they are too many for me to grasp.*+

16 I will come and tell about your mighty acts,

O Sovereign Lord Jehovah;

I will mention your righteousness, yours alone.

17 O God, you have taught me from my youth,+

And until now I keep declaring your wonderful works.+

Let me tell the next generation about your power*

And about your mightiness to all those who are to come.+

19 Your righteousness, O God, reaches to the heights;+

You have done great things;

O God, who is like you?+

20 Though you have made me experience much distress and calamity,+

Revive me again;

Bring me up from the depths* of the earth.+

21 May you increase my greatness

And surround and comfort me.

22 Then I will praise you on a stringed instrument

Because of your faithfulness, O my God.+

I will sing your praises* with the harp,

O Holy One of Israel.

23 My lips will shout joyfully as I sing praises to you,+

For you have saved my life.*+

24 My tongue will speak about* your righteousness all day long,+

For those seeking my destruction will be ashamed and disgraced.+