Protect me, for I am loyal! O my God, deliver your servant, who trusts in you!

Turn toward me and have mercy on me! Give your servant your strength! Deliver your slave!

Take note, O Lord, of the way your servants are taunted, and of how I must bear so many insults from people!

Indeed, your servants take delight in her stones, and feel compassion for the dust of her ruins.

Praise the Lord! Praise, you servants of the Lord, praise the name of the Lord!

I have wandered off like a lost sheep. Come looking for your servant, for I do not forget your commands.

Praise the Lord! Praise the name of the Lord! Offer praise, you servants of the Lord,

Do not sit in judgment on your servant, for no one alive is innocent before you.

As a demonstration of your loyal love, destroy my enemies! Annihilate all who threaten my life, for I am your servant.

the one who delivers kings, and rescued David his servant from a deadly sword.

Moreover, keep me from committing flagrant sins; do not allow such sins to control me. Then I will be blameless, and innocent of blatant rebellion.

Do not reject me! Do not push your servant away in anger! You are my deliverer! Do not forsake or abandon me, O God who vindicates me!

For the music director; written by the Lord’s servant, David; an oracle. An evil man is rebellious to the core. He does not fear God,

Look, as the eyes of servants look to the hand of their master, as the eyes of a female servant look to the hand of her mistress, so my eyes will look to the Lord, our God, until he shows us favor.

A song of ascents. Attention! Praise the Lord, all you servants of the Lord, who serve in the Lord’s temple during the night.

For the music director; by the Lord’s servant David, who sang to the Lord the words of this song when the Lord rescued him from the power of all his enemies, including Saul. He said: “I love you, Lord, my source of strength!