12:1Help, Yahweh; for the godly man ceases. For the faithful fail from among the children of men. 12:2Everyone lies to his neighbor. They speak with flattering lips, and with a double heart. 12:3May Yahweh cut off all flattering lips, and the tongue that boasts, 12:4who have said, “With our tongue we will prevail. Our lips are our own. Who is lord over us?” 12:5“Because of the oppression of the weak and because of the groaning of the needy, I will now arise,” says Yahweh; “I will set him in safety from those who malign him.” 12:6Yahweh’s words are flawless words, as silver refined in a clay furnace, purified seven times. 12:7You will keep them, Yahweh. You will preserve them from this generation forever. 12:8The wicked walk on every side, when what is vile is exalted among the sons of men.
13:1How long, Yahweh? Will you forget me forever? How long will you hide your face from me? 13:2How long shall I take counsel in my soul, having sorrow in my heart every day? How long shall my enemy triumph over me? 13:3Behold, and answer me, Yahweh, my God. Give light to my eyes, lest I sleep in death; 13:4Lest my enemy say, “I have prevailed against him”; Lest my adversaries rejoice when I fall. 13:5But I trust in your loving kindness. My heart rejoices in your salvation. 13:6I will sing to Yahweh, because he has been good to me.
14:1The fool has said in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt. They have done abominable deeds. There is no one who does good. 14:2Yahweh looked down from heaven on the children of men, to see if there were any who understood, who sought after God. 14:3They have all gone aside. They have together become corrupt. There is no one who does good, no, not one. 14:4Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge, who eat up my people as they eat bread, and don’t call on Yahweh? 14:5There they were in great fear, for God is in the generation of the righteous. 14:6You frustrate the plan of the poor, because Yahweh is his refuge. 14:7Oh that the salvation of Israel would come out of Zion! When Yahweh restores the fortunes of his people, then Jacob shall rejoice, and Israel shall be glad.
15:1Yahweh, who shall dwell in your sanctuary? Who shall live on your holy hill? 15:2He who walks blamelessly does what is right, and speaks truth in his heart; 15:3He who doesn’t slander with his tongue, nor does evil to his friend, nor casts slurs against his fellow man; 15:4In whose eyes a vile man is despised, but who honors those who fear Yahweh; he who keeps an oath even when it hurts, and doesn’t change; 15:5he who doesn’t lend out his money for usury, nor take a bribe against the innocent. He who does these things shall never be shaken.
16:1Preserve me, God, for in you do I take refuge. 16:2My soul, you have said to Yahweh, “You are my Lord. Apart from you I have no good thing.” 16:3As for the saints who are in the earth, they are the excellent ones in whom is all my delight. 16:4Their sorrows shall be multiplied who give gifts to another god. Their drink offerings of blood I will not offer, nor take their names on my lips. 16:5Yahweh assigned my portion and my cup. You made my lot secure. 16:6The lines have fallen to me in pleasant places. Yes, I have a good inheritance. 16:7I will bless Yahweh, who has given me counsel. Yes, my heart instructs me in the night seasons. 16:8I have set Yahweh always before me. Because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved. 16:9Therefore my heart is glad, and my tongue rejoices. My body shall also dwell in safety. 16:10For you will not leave my soul in Sheol, neither will you allow your holy one to see corruption. 16:11You will show me the path of life. In your presence is fullness of joy. In your right hand there are pleasures forever more.
17:1Hear, Yahweh, my righteous plea; Give ear to my prayer, that doesn’t go out of deceitful lips. 17:2Let my sentence come out of your presence. Let your eyes look on equity. 17:3You have proved my heart. You have visited me in the night. You have tried me, and found nothing. I have resolved that my mouth shall not disobey. 17:4As for the deeds of men, by the word of your lips, I have kept myself from the ways of the violent. 17:5My steps have held fast to your paths. My feet have not slipped. 17:6I have called on you, for you will answer me, God. Turn your ear to me. Hear my speech. 17:7Show your marvelous loving kindness, you who save those who take refuge by your right hand from their enemies. 17:8Keep me as the apple of your eye. Hide me under the shadow of your wings, 17:9from the wicked who oppress me, my deadly enemies, who surround me. 17:10They close up their callous hearts. With their mouth they speak proudly. 17:11They have now surrounded us in our steps. They set their eyes to cast us down to the earth. 17:12He is like a lion that is greedy of his prey, as it were a young lion lurking in secret places. 17:13Arise, Yahweh, confront him. Cast him down. Deliver my soul from the wicked by your sword; 17:14from men by your hand, Yahweh, from men of the world, whose portion is in this life. You fill the belly of your cherished ones. Your sons have plenty, and they store up wealth for their children. 17:15As for me, I shall see your face in righteousness. I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with seeing your form.
18:1I love you, Yahweh, my strength. 18:2Yahweh is my rock, my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my rock, in whom I take refuge; my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower. 18:3I call on Yahweh, who is worthy to be praised; and I am saved from my enemies. 18:4The cords of death surrounded me. The floods of ungodliness made me afraid. 18:5The cords of Sheol were around me. The snares of death came on me. 18:6In my distress I called on Yahweh, and cried to my God. He heard my voice out of his temple. My cry before him came into his ears. 18:7Then the earth shook and trembled. The foundations also of the mountains quaked and were shaken, because he was angry. 18:8Smoke went out of his nostrils. Consuming fire came out of his mouth. Coals were kindled by it. 18:9He bowed the heavens also, and came down. Thick darkness was under his feet. 18:10He rode on a cherub, and flew. Yes, he soared on the wings of the wind. 18:11He made darkness his hiding place, his pavilion around him, darkness of waters, thick clouds of the skies. 18:12At the brightness before him his thick clouds passed, hailstones and coals of fire. 18:13Yahweh also thundered in the sky. The Most High uttered his voice: hailstones and coals of fire. 18:14He sent out his arrows, and scattered them; Yes, great lightning bolts, and routed them. 18:15Then the channels of waters appeared. The foundations of the world were laid bare at your rebuke, Yahweh, at the blast of the breath of your nostrils. 18:16He sent from on high. He took me. He drew me out of many waters. 18:17He delivered me from my strong enemy, from those who hated me; for they were too mighty for me. 18:18They came on me in the day of my calamity, but Yahweh was my support. 18:19He brought me out also into a large place. He delivered me, because he delighted in me. 18:20Yahweh has rewarded me according to my righteousness. According to the cleanness of my hands has he recompensed me. 18:21For I have kept the ways of Yahweh, and have not wickedly departed from my God. 18:22For all his ordinances were before me. I didn’t put away his statutes from me. 18:23I was also blameless with him. I kept myself from my iniquity. 18:24Therefore Yahweh has rewarded me according to my righteousness, according to the cleanness of my hands in his eyesight. 18:25With the merciful you will show yourself merciful. With the perfect man, you will show yourself perfect. 18:26With the pure, you will show yourself pure. With the crooked you will show yourself shrewd. 18:27For you will save the afflicted people, but the haughty eyes you will bring down. 18:28For you will light my lamp, Yahweh. My God will light up my darkness. 18:29For by you, I advance through a troop. By my God, I leap over a wall. 18:30As for God, his way is perfect. Yahweh’s word is tried. He is a shield to all those who take refuge in him. 18:31For who is God, except Yahweh? Who is a rock, besides our God, 18:32the God who arms me with strength, and makes my way perfect? 18:33He makes my feet like deer’s feet, and sets me on my high places. 18:34He teaches my hands to war, so that my arms bend a bow of bronze. 18:35You have also given me the shield of your salvation. Your right hand sustains me. Your gentleness has made me great. 18:36You have enlarged my steps under me, My feet have not slipped. 18:37I will pursue my enemies, and overtake them. Neither will I turn again until they are consumed. 18:38I will strike them through, so that they will not be able to rise. They shall fall under my feet. 18:39For you have armed me with strength to the battle. You have subdued under me those who rose up against me. 18:40You have also made my enemies turn their backs to me, that I might cut off those who hate me. 18:41They cried, but there was no one to save; even to Yahweh, but he didn’t answer them. 18:42Then I beat them small as the dust before the wind. I cast them out as the mire of the streets. 18:43You have delivered me from the strivings of the people. You have made me the head of the nations. A people whom I have not known shall serve me. 18:44As soon as they hear of me they shall obey me. The foreigners shall submit themselves to me. 18:45The foreigners shall fade away, and shall come trembling out of their close places. 18:46Yahweh lives; and blessed be my rock. Exalted be the God of my salvation, 18:47even the God who executes vengeance for me, and subdues peoples under me. 18:48He rescues me from my enemies. Yes, you lift me up above those who rise up against me. You deliver me from the violent man. 18:49Therefore I will give thanks to you, Yahweh, among the nations, and will sing praises to your name. 18:50He gives great deliverance to his king, and shows loving kindness to his anointed, to David and to his offspring, forever more.
19:1The heavens declare the glory of God. The expanse shows his handiwork. 19:2Day after day they pour out speech, and night after night they display knowledge. 19:3There is no speech nor language, where their voice is not heard. 19:4Their voice has gone out through all the earth, their words to the end of the world. In them he has set a tent for the sun, 19:5which is as a bridegroom coming out of his room, like a strong man rejoicing to run his course. 19:6His going out is from the end of the heavens, his circuit to its ends; There is nothing hidden from its heat. 19:7Yahweh’s law is perfect, restoring the soul. Yahweh’s testimony is sure, making wise the simple. 19:8Yahweh’s precepts are right, rejoicing the heart. Yahweh’s commandment is pure, enlightening the eyes. 19:9The fear of Yahweh is clean, enduring forever. Yahweh’s ordinances are true, and righteous altogether. 19:10More to be desired are they than gold, yes, than much fine gold; sweeter also than honey and the extract of the honeycomb. 19:11Moreover by them is your servant warned. In keeping them there is great reward. 19:12Who can discern his errors? Forgive me from hidden errors. 19:13Keep back your servant also from presumptuous sins. Let them not have dominion over me. Then I will be upright. I will be blameless and innocent of great transgression. 19:14Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in your sight, Yahweh, my rock, and my redeemer.
20:1May Yahweh answer you in the day of trouble. May the name of the God of Jacob set you up on high, 20:2send you help from the sanctuary, grant you support from Zion, 20:3remember all your offerings, and accept your burned sacrifice. Selah. 20:4May He grant you your heart’s desire, and fulfill all your counsel. 20:5We will triumph in your salvation. In the name of our God, we will set up our banners. May Yahweh grant all your requests. 20:6Now I know that Yahweh saves his anointed. He will answer him from his holy heaven, with the saving strength of his right hand. 20:7Some trust in chariots, and some in horses, but we trust the name of Yahweh our God. 20:8They are bowed down and fallen, but we rise up, and stand upright. 20:9Save, Yahweh! Let the King answer us when we call!
21:1The king rejoices in your strength, Yahweh! How greatly he rejoices in your salvation! 21:2You have given him his heart’s desire, and have not withheld the request of his lips. Selah. 21:3For you meet him with the blessings of goodness. You set a crown of fine gold on his head. 21:4He asked life of you, you gave it to him, even length of days forever and ever. 21:5His glory is great in your salvation. You lay honor and majesty on him. 21:6For you make him most blessed forever. You make him glad with joy in your presence. 21:7For the king trusts in Yahweh. Through the loving kindness of the Most High, he shall not be moved. 21:8Your hand will find out all of your enemies. Your right hand will find out those who hate you. 21:9You will make them as a fiery furnace in the time of your anger. Yahweh will swallow them up in his wrath. The fire shall devour them. 21:10You will destroy their descendants from the earth, their posterity from among the children of men. 21:11For they intended evil against you. They plotted evil against you which cannot succeed. 21:12For you will make them turn their back, when you aim drawn bows at their face. 21:13Be exalted, Yahweh, in your strength, so we will sing and praise your power.
22:1My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Why are you so far from helping me, and from the words of my groaning? 22:2My God, I cry in the daytime, but you don’t answer; in the night season, and am not silent. 22:3But you are holy, you who inhabit the praises of Israel. 22:4Our fathers trusted in you. They trusted, and you delivered them. 22:5They cried to you, and were delivered. They trusted in you, and were not disappointed. 22:6But I am a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and despised by the people. 22:7All those who see me mock me. They insult me with their lips. They shake their heads, saying, 22:8“He trusts in Yahweh. Let him deliver him. Let him rescue him, since he delights in him.” 22:9But you brought me out of the womb. You made me trust while at my mother’s breasts. 22:10I was thrown on you from my mother’s womb. You are my God since my mother bore me. 22:11Don’t be far from me, for trouble is near. For there is no one to help. 22:12Many bulls have surrounded me. Strong bulls of Bashan have encircled me. 22:13They open their mouths wide against me, lions tearing prey and roaring. 22:14I am poured out like water. All my bones are out of joint. My heart is like wax; it is melted within me. 22:15My strength is dried up like a potsherd. My tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth. You have brought me into the dust of death. 22:16For dogs have surrounded me. A company of evildoers have enclosed me. They have pierced my hands and feet. 22:17I can count all of my bones. They look and stare at me. 22:18They divide my garments among them. They cast lots for my clothing. 22:19But don’t be far off, Yahweh. You are my help: hurry to help me. 22:20Deliver my soul from the sword, my precious life from the power of the dog. 22:21Save me from the lion’s mouth! Yes, from the horns of the wild oxen, you have answered me. 22:22I will declare your name to my brothers. Among the assembly, I will praise you. 22:23You who fear Yahweh, praise him! All you descendants of Jacob, glorify him! Stand in awe of him, all you descendants of Israel! 22:24For he has not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted, Neither has he hidden his face from him; but when he cried to him, he heard. 22:25Of you comes my praise in the great assembly. I will pay my vows before those who fear him. 22:26The humble shall eat and be satisfied. They shall praise Yahweh who seek after him. Let your hearts live forever. 22:27All the ends of the earth shall remember and turn to Yahweh. All the relatives of the nations shall worship before you. 22:28For the kingdom is Yahweh’s. He is the ruler over the nations. 22:29All the rich ones of the earth shall eat and worship. All those who go down to the dust shall bow before him, even he who can’t keep his soul alive. 22:30Posterity shall serve him. Future generations shall be told about the Lord. 22:31They shall come and shall declare his righteousness to a people that shall be born, for he has done it.
23:1Yahweh is my shepherd: I shall lack nothing. 23:2He makes me lie down in green pastures. He leads me beside still waters. 23:3He restores my soul. He guides me in the paths of righteousness for his name’s sake. 23:4Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me. Your rod and your staff, they comfort me. 23:5You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies. You anoint my head with oil. My cup runs over. 23:6Surely goodness and loving kindness shall follow me all the days of my life, and I will dwell in Yahweh’s house forever.
24:1The earth is Yahweh’s, with its fullness; the world, and those who dwell therein. 24:2For he has founded it on the seas, and established it on the floods. 24:3Who may ascend to Yahweh’s hill? Who may stand in his holy place? 24:4He who has clean hands and a pure heart; who has not lifted up his soul to falsehood, and has not sworn deceitfully. 24:5He shall receive a blessing from Yahweh, righteousness from the God of his salvation. 24:6This is the generation of those who seek Him, who seek your face—even Jacob. Selah. 24:7Lift up your heads, you gates! Be lifted up, you everlasting doors, and the King of glory will come in. 24:8Who is the King of glory? Yahweh strong and mighty, Yahweh mighty in battle. 24:9Lift up your heads, you gates; yes, lift them up, you everlasting doors, and the King of glory will come in. 24:10Who is this King of glory? Yahweh of Armies is the King of glory! Selah.
25:1To you, Yahweh, do I lift up my soul. 25:2My God, I have trusted in you. Don’t let me be shamed. Don’t let my enemies triumph over me. 25:3Yes, no one who waits for you shall be shamed. They shall be shamed who deal treacherously without cause. 25:4Show me your ways, Yahweh. Teach me your paths. 25:5Guide me in your truth, and teach me, For you are the God of my salvation, I wait for you all day long. 25:6Yahweh, remember your tender mercies and your loving kindness, for they are from old times. 25:7Don’t remember the sins of my youth, nor my transgressions. Remember me according to your loving kindness, for your goodness’ sake, Yahweh. 25:8Good and upright is Yahweh, therefore he will instruct sinners in the way. 25:9He will guide the humble in justice. He will teach the humble his way. 25:10All the paths of Yahweh are loving kindness and truth to such as keep his covenant and his testimonies. 25:11For your name’s sake, Yahweh, pardon my iniquity, for it is great. 25:12What man is he who fears Yahweh? He shall instruct him in the way that he shall choose. 25:13His soul shall dwell at ease. His offspring shall inherit the land. 25:14The friendship of Yahweh is with those who fear him. He will show them his covenant. 25:15My eyes are ever on Yahweh, for he will pluck my feet out of the net. 25:16Turn to me, and have mercy on me, for I am desolate and afflicted. 25:17The troubles of my heart are enlarged. Oh bring me out of my distresses. 25:18Consider my affliction and my travail. Forgive all my sins. 25:19Consider my enemies, for they are many. They hate me with cruel hatred. 25:20Oh keep my soul, and deliver me. Let me not be disappointed, for I take refuge in you. 25:21Let integrity and uprightness preserve me, for I wait for you. 25:22Redeem Israel, God, out of all his troubles.
26:1Judge me, Yahweh, for I have walked in my integrity. I have trusted also in Yahweh without wavering. 26:2Examine me, Yahweh, and prove me. Try my heart and my mind. 26:3For your loving kindness is before my eyes. I have walked in your truth. 26:4I have not sat with deceitful men, neither will I go in with hypocrites. 26:5I hate the assembly of evildoers, and will not sit with the wicked. 26:6I will wash my hands in innocence, so I will go about your altar, Yahweh; 26:7that I may make the voice of thanksgiving to be heard, and tell of all your wondrous deeds. 26:8Yahweh, I love the habitation of your house, the place where your glory dwells. 26:9Don’t gather my soul with sinners, nor my life with bloodthirsty men; 26:10in whose hands is wickedness, their right hand is full of bribes. 26:11But as for me, I will walk in my integrity. Redeem me, and be merciful to me. 26:12My foot stands in an even place. In the congregations I will bless Yahweh.
27:1Yahweh is my light and my salvation. Whom shall I fear? Yahweh is the strength of my life. Of whom shall I be afraid? 27:2When evildoers came at me to eat up my flesh, even my adversaries and my foes, they stumbled and fell. 27:3Though an army should encamp against me, my heart shall not fear. Though war should rise against me, even then I will be confident. 27:4One thing I have asked of Yahweh, that I will seek after: that I may dwell in Yahweh’s house all the days of my life, to see Yahweh’s beauty, and to inquire in his temple. 27:5For in the day of trouble, he will keep me secretly in his pavilion. In the secret place of his tabernacle, he will hide me. He will lift me up on a rock. 27:6Now my head will be lifted up above my enemies around me; I will offer sacrifices of joy in his tent. I will sing, yes, I will sing praises to Yahweh. 27:7Hear, Yahweh, when I cry with my voice. Have mercy also on me, and answer me. 27:8When you said, “Seek my face,” my heart said to you, “I will seek your face, Yahweh.” 27:9Don’t hide your face from me. Don’t put your servant away in anger. You have been my help. Don’t abandon me, neither forsake me, God of my salvation. 27:10When my father and my mother forsake me, then Yahweh will take me up. 27:11Teach me your way, Yahweh. Lead me in a straight path, because of my enemies. 27:12Don’t deliver me over to the desire of my adversaries, for false witnesses have risen up against me, such as breathe out cruelty. 27:13I am still confident of this: I will see the goodness of Yahweh in the land of the living. 27:14Wait for Yahweh. Be strong, and let your heart take courage. Yes, wait for Yahweh.
28:1To you, Yahweh, I call. My rock, don’t be deaf to me; lest, if you are silent to me, I would become like those who go down into the pit. 28:2Hear the voice of my petitions, when I cry to you, when I lift up my hands toward your Most Holy Place. 28:3Don’t draw me away with the wicked, with the workers of iniquity who speak peace with their neighbors, but mischief is in their hearts. 28:4Give them according to their work, and according to the wickedness of their doings. Give them according to the operation of their hands. Bring back on them what they deserve. 28:5Because they don’t respect the works of Yahweh, nor the operation of his hands, he will break them down and not build them up. 28:6Blessed be Yahweh, because he has heard the voice of my petitions. 28:7Yahweh is my strength and my shield. My heart has trusted in him, and I am helped. Therefore my heart greatly rejoices. With my song I will thank him. 28:8Yahweh is their strength. He is a stronghold of salvation to his anointed. 28:9Save your people, and bless your inheritance. Be their shepherd also, and bear them up forever.
29:1Ascribe to Yahweh, you sons of the mighty, ascribe to Yahweh glory and strength. 29:2Ascribe to Yahweh the glory due to his name. Worship Yahweh in holy array. 29:3Yahweh’s voice is on the waters. The God of glory thunders, even Yahweh on many waters. 29:4Yahweh’s voice is powerful. Yahweh’s voice is full of majesty. 29:5Yahweh’s voice breaks the cedars. Yes, Yahweh breaks in pieces the cedars of Lebanon. 29:6He makes them also to skip like a calf; Lebanon and Sirion like a young, wild ox. 29:7Yahweh’s voice strikes with flashes of lightning. 29:8Yahweh’s voice shakes the wilderness. Yahweh shakes the wilderness of Kadesh. 29:9Yahweh’s voice makes the deer calve, and strips the forests bare. In his temple everything says, “Glory!” 29:10Yahweh sat enthroned at the Flood. Yes, Yahweh sits as King forever. 29:11Yahweh will give strength to his people. Yahweh will bless his people with peace.
30:1I will extol you, Yahweh, for you have raised me up, and have not made my foes to rejoice over me. 30:2Yahweh my God, I cried to you, and you have healed me. 30:3Yahweh, you have brought up my soul from Sheol. You have kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit. 30:4Sing praise to Yahweh, you saints of his. Give thanks to his holy name. 30:5For his anger is but for a moment. His favor is for a lifetime. Weeping may stay for the night, but joy comes in the morning. 30:6As for me, I said in my prosperity, “I shall never be moved.” 30:7You, Yahweh, when you favored me, made my mountain stand strong; but when you hid your face, I was troubled. 30:8I cried to you, Yahweh. I made supplication to the Lord: 30:9“What profit is there in my destruction, if I go down to the pit? Shall the dust praise you? Shall it declare your truth? 30:10Hear, Yahweh, and have mercy on me. Yahweh, be my helper.” 30:11You have turned my mourning into dancing for me. You have removed my sackcloth, and clothed me with gladness, 30:12To the end that my heart may sing praise to you, and not be silent. Yahweh my God, I will give thanks to you forever!
31:1In you, Yahweh, I take refuge. Let me never be disappointed. Deliver me in your righteousness. 31:2Bow down your ear to me. Deliver me speedily. Be to me a strong rock, a house of defense to save me. 31:3For you are my rock and my fortress, therefore for your name’s sake lead me and guide me. 31:4Pluck me out of the net that they have laid secretly for me, for you are my stronghold. 31:5Into your hand I commend my spirit. You redeem me, Yahweh, God of truth. 31:6I hate those who regard lying vanities, but I trust in Yahweh. 31:7I will be glad and rejoice in your loving kindness, for you have seen my affliction. You have known my soul in adversities. 31:8You have not shut me up into the hand of the enemy. You have set my feet in a large place. 31:9Have mercy on me, Yahweh, for I am in distress. My eye, my soul, and my body waste away with grief. 31:10For my life is spent with sorrow, my years with sighing. My strength fails because of my iniquity. My bones are wasted away. 31:11Because of all my adversaries I have become utterly contemptible to my neighbors, A fear to my acquaintances. Those who saw me on the street fled from me. 31:12I am forgotten from their hearts like a dead man. I am like broken pottery. 31:13For I have heard the slander of many, terror on every side, while they conspire together against me, they plot to take away my life. 31:14But I trust in you, Yahweh. I said, “You are my God.” 31:15My times are in your hand. Deliver me from the hand of my enemies, and from those who persecute me. 31:16Make your face to shine on your servant. Save me in your loving kindness. 31:17Let me not be disappointed, Yahweh, for I have called on you. Let the wicked be disappointed. Let them be silent in Sheol. 31:18Let the lying lips be mute, which speak against the righteous insolently, with pride and contempt. 31:19Oh how great is your goodness, which you have laid up for those who fear you, which you have worked for those who take refuge in you, before the sons of men! 31:20In the shelter of your presence you will hide them from the plotting of man. You will keep them secretly in a dwelling away from the strife of tongues. 31:21Praise be to Yahweh, for he has shown me his marvelous loving kindness in a strong city. 31:22As for me, I said in my haste, “I am cut off from before your eyes.” Nevertheless you heard the voice of my petitions when I cried to you. 31:23Oh love Yahweh, all you his saints! Yahweh preserves the faithful, and fully recompenses him who behaves arrogantly. 31:24Be strong, and let your heart take courage, all you who hope in Yahweh.