I say to the Lord, “You are the Lord, my only source of well-being.”

I have been dependent on you since birth; from the time I came out of my mother’s womb you have been my God.

But I trust in you, O Lord! I declare, “You are my God!”

I will instruct and teach you about how you should live. I will advise you as I look you in the eye.

For I suffer humiliation for your sake and am thoroughly disgraced.

Yes, they devise a unified strategy; they form an alliance against you.

Yes, they intend to do you harm; they dream up a scheme, but they do not succeed.

Yet because of you we are killed all day long; we are treated like sheep at the slaughtering block.

I have leaned on you since birth; you pulled me from my mother’s womb. I praise you continually.

You have taken notice, for you always see one who inflicts pain and suffering. The unfortunate victim entrusts his cause to you; you deliver the fatherless.