I called to the Lord, who is worthy of praise, and I was delivered from my enemies.

For you bring him rich blessings; you place a golden crown on his head.

Deliver your people! Empower the nation that belongs to you! Care for them like a shepherd and carry them in your arms at all times!

May they be like wind-driven chaff, as the Lord’s angel attacks them!

Confuse them, O Lord! Frustrate their plans! For I see violence and conflict in the city.

My enemies will turn back when I cry out to you for help; I know that God is on my side.

I cry out for help to the sovereign God, to the God who vindicates me.

You saturate its furrows, and soak its plowed ground. With rain showers you soften its soil, and make its crops grow.

God has decreed that you will be powerful. O God, you who have acted on our behalf, demonstrate your power,

Do not reject me in my old age! When my strength fails, do not abandon me!

Your enemies roar in the middle of your sanctuary; they set up their battle flags.

Certainly O Lord, you are kind and forgiving, and show great faithfulness to all who cry out to you.

As for me, I cry out to you, O Lord; in the morning my prayer confronts you.

Come! Let’s sing for joy to the Lord! Let’s shout out praises to our protector who delivers us!

Shout out praises to the Lord, all the earth! Break out in a joyful shout and sing!

You make it dark and night comes, during which all the beasts of the forest prowl around.

He looks down on the earth and it shakes; he touches the mountains and they start to smolder.

They cried out to the Lord in their distress; he delivered them from their troubles.

They cried out to the Lord in their distress; he delivered them from their troubles.

He would pour contempt upon princes, and he made them wander in a wasteland with no road.