<p class="poetry">May all those who seek you be happy and rejoice in you!p> <p class="poetry">May those who love to experience<n id="1" /> your deliverance say continually,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">&#8220;May the <sc>Lordsc> be praised!&#8221;<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">He says:<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">&#8220;Listen my people! I am speaking!p> <p class="poetry">Listen Israel! I am accusing you!<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">I am God, your God!p>

<p class="poetry">May all those who seek you be happy and rejoice in you!p> <p class="poetry">May those who love to experience<n id="1" /> your deliverance say continually,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">&#8220;May God<n id="3" /> be praised!&#8221;<n id="4" />p>

<p class="poetry">I have leaned on you since birth;<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">you pulled me<n id="2" /> from my mother&#8217;s womb.p> <p class="poetry">I praise you continually.<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">I said,<n id="1" /> &#8216;Listen, my people!p> <p class="poetry">I will warn<n id="2" /> you!p> <p class="poetry">O Israel, if only you would obey me!<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">There must be<n id="1" /> no other<n id="2" /> god among you.p> <p class="poetry">You must not worship a foreign god.p>

<t /><p class="psasuper">A musical composition<n id="2" /> by David, which he sang to the <sc>Lordsc> concerning<n id="3" /> a Benjaminite named Cush.<n id="4" />p> <p class="poetry">O <sc>Lordsc> my God, in you I have taken shelter.<n id="5" />p> <p class="poetry">Deliver me from all who chase me! Rescue me!p>

<p class="poetry">How great is your favor,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">which you store up for your loyal followers!<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">In plain sight of everyone you bestow it on those who take shelter<n id="3" /> in you.<n id="4" />p>

<p class="poetry">But you, O God, will bring them<n id="1" /> down to the deep Pit.<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">Violent and deceitful people<n id="3" /> will not live even half a normal lifespan.<n id="4" />p> <p class="poetry">But as for me, I trust in you.p>

<p class="poetry">May I hear about your loyal love in the morning,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">for I trust in you.p> <p class="poetry">Show me the way I should go,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">because I long for you.<n id="3" />p>

<t /><p class="psasuper">For the music director; according to the <i>al-tashchethi> style;<n id="2" /> a prayer<n id="3" /> of David, written when he fled from Saul into the cave.<n id="4" />p> <p class="poetry">Have mercy on me, O God! Have mercy on me!p> <p class="poetry">For in you I have taken shelter.<n id="5" />p> <p class="poetry">In the shadow of your wings<n id="6" /> I take shelterp> <p class="poetry">until trouble passes.p>