1 For the music director: “A Silent Dove Far Away,” a Michtam of David, when the Philistines had seized him in Gath.
2 Be gracious to me, O God! For man has crushed me, fighting all day he oppresses me.
3 My foes trample me all day. For many are fighting me arrogantly.
4 In a day when I am afraid, I will put my trust in You.
5 In God—I keep praising His word— in God I trust, I will not fear. What can mere flesh do to me?
6 All day they twist my words. All their thoughts are against me for evil.
7 They stir up strife; they lie hidden. They mark my steps, eager to take my soul.
8 In spite of such sin, will they escape? In fierce anger, O God, cast down such people!
9 You have recorded my wanderings. You put my tears in Your bottle. Are they not in Your book?
10 Then my enemies will turn back in the day I call. This I know—that God is for me.
11 In God—I keep praising His word— in Adonai—I keep praising His word—
12 in God I trust, I will not be afraid. What can man do to me?
13 I am under vows to You, O God. I will present thank offerings to You.
14 For You have delivered my soul from death and my feet from stumbling, that I may walk before God in the light of life.