For the music director; By David, a psalm. I relied completely on the Lord, and he turned toward me and heard my cry for help.

Listen, O princess! Observe and pay attention! Forget your homeland and your family!

For the music director, a psalm by the Korahites. Listen to this, all you nations! Pay attention, all you inhabitants of the world!

He says: “Listen my people! I am speaking! Listen Israel! I am accusing you! I am God, your God!

that does not respond to the magicians, or to a skilled snake-charmer.

Look, they hurl insults at me and openly threaten to kill me, for they say, “Who hears?”

For the music director; to be played on a stringed instrument; written by David. O God, hear my cry for help! Pay attention to my prayer!

For you, O God, hear my vows; you grant me the reward that belongs to your loyal followers.

God has declared one principle; two principles I have heard: God is strong,

For the music director; a psalm of David. Listen to me, O God, as I offer my lament! Protect my life from the enemy’s terrifying attacks.

Come! Listen, all you who are loyal to God! I will declare what he has done for me.

For the Lord listens to the needy; he does not despise his captive people.

When the Lord heard this, he was furious. A fire broke out against Jacob, and his anger flared up against Israel,

He decreed it as a regulation in Joseph, when he attacked the land of Egypt. I heard a voice I did not recognize.

But my people did not obey me; Israel did not submit to me.

O Lord, sovereign God, hear my prayer! Listen, O God of Jacob! (Selah)

I gloat in triumph over those who tried to ambush me; I hear the defeated cries of the evil foes who attacked me.

Does the one who makes the human ear not hear? Does the one who forms the human eye not see?

For he is our God; we are the people of his pasture, the sheep he owns. Today, if only you would obey him!

Zion hears and rejoices, the towns of Judah are happy, because of your judgments, O Lord.