In you, O Lord, I have taken shelter! Never let me be humiliated!

In my self-confidence I said, “I will never be upended.”

I will never forget your precepts, for by them you have revived me.

He says to himself, “God overlooks it; he does not pay attention; he never notices.”

I asked, “Will the Lord reject me forever? Will he never again show me his favor?

For he will never be upended; others will always remember one who is just.

But he will join his ancestors; they will never again see the light of day.

He says to himself, “I will never be upended, because I experience no calamity.”

He established the earth on its foundations; it will never be upended.

Throw your burden upon the Lord, and he will sustain you. He will never allow the godly to be upended.

Once and for all I have vowed by my own holiness, I will never deceive David.

So they proclaim that the Lord, my protector, is just and never unfair.

They say, ‘An awful disease overwhelms him, and now that he is bed-ridden he will never recover.’

For the music director; a psalm of David. In you, O Lord, I have taken shelter! Never let me be humiliated! Vindicate me by rescuing me!

For he never bothered to show kindness; he harassed the oppressed and needy, and killed the disheartened.

Let them be like a snail that melts away as it moves along! Let them be like stillborn babies that never see the sun!

He does not charge interest when he lends his money. He does not take bribes to testify against the innocent. The one who lives like this will never be upended.

I was once young, now I am old. I have never seen a godly man abandoned, or his children forced to search for food.

So I made a vow in my anger, ‘They will never enter into the resting place I had set aside for them.’”

For the Lord promotes justice, and never abandons his faithful followers. They are permanently secure, but the children of evil men are wiped out.