^3 (C)For You are my rock and my fortress;
Therefore, ^(D)for Your name’s sake,
Lead me and guide me.
⁴ Pull me out of the net which they have secretly laid for me,
For You are my strength.
^5 (E)Into Your hand I commit my spirit;
You have redeemed me, O Lord God of ^(F)truth.

⁶ I have hated those ^(G)who regard useless idols;
But I trust in the Lord.
⁷ I will be glad and rejoice in Your mercy,
For You have considered my trouble;
You have ^(H)known my soul in ^[d]adversities,
⁸ And have not ^(I)shut^[e] me up into the hand of the enemy;
^(J)You have set my feet in a wide place.

⁹ Have mercy on me, O Lord, for I am in trouble;
^(K)My eye wastes away with grief,
Yes, my soul and my ^[f]body!
¹⁰ For my life is spent with grief,
And my years with sighing;
My strength fails because of my iniquity,
And my bones waste away.
^11 (L)I am a ^[g]reproach among all my enemies,
But ^(M)especially among my neighbors,
And am repulsive to my acquaintances;
^(N)Those who see me outside flee from me.
^12 (O)I am forgotten like a dead man, out of mind;
I am like a ^[h]broken vessel.
^13 (P)For I hear the slander of many;
^(Q)Fear is on every side;
While they ^(R)take counsel together against me,
They scheme to take away my life.

¹⁴ But as for me, I trust in You, O Lord;
I say, “You are my God.”
¹⁵ My times are in Your ^(S)hand;
Deliver me from the hand of my enemies,
And from those who persecute me.
^16 (T)Make Your face shine upon Your servant;
Save me for Your mercies’ sake.
^17 (U)Do not let me be ashamed, O Lord, for I have called upon You;
Let the wicked be ashamed;
^(V)Let them be silent in the grave.
^18 (W)Let the lying lips be put to silence,
Which ^(X)speak insolent things proudly and contemptuously against the righteous.

^19 (Y)Oh, how great is Your goodness,
Which You have laid up for those who fear You,
Which You have prepared for those who trust in You
In the presence of the sons of men!
^20 (Z)You shall hide them in the secret place of Your presence
From the plots of man;
^(AA)You shall keep them secretly in a ^[i]pavilion
From the strife of tongues.

²¹ Blessed be the Lord,
For ^(AB)He has shown me His marvelous kindness in a ^[j]strong city!
²² For I said in my haste,
“I am cut off from before Your eyes”;
Nevertheless You heard the voice of my supplications
When I cried out to You.

²³ Oh, love the Lord, all you His saints!
For the Lord preserves the faithful,
And fully repays the proud person.
^24 (AC)Be of good courage,
And He shall strengthen your heart,
All you who hope in the Lord.

“Hear now, O heads of Jacob,
And you ^(A)rulers of the house of Israel:
^(B)Is it not for you to know justice?
² You who hate good and love evil;
Who strip the skin from ^[a]My people,
And the flesh from their bones;
³ Who also ^(C)eat the flesh of My people,
Flay their skin from them,
Break their bones,
And chop them in pieces
Like meat for the pot,
^(D)Like flesh in the caldron.”

⁴ Then ^(E)they will cry to the Lord,
But He will not hear them;
He will even hide His face from them at that time,
Because they have been evil in their deeds.

⁵ Thus says the Lord ^(F)concerning the prophets
Who make my people stray;
Who chant ^[b]“Peace”
^[c]While they ^(G)chew with their teeth,
But who prepare war against him
^(H)Who puts nothing into their mouths:
⁶ “Therefore^(I) you shall have night without ^[d]vision,
And you shall have darkness without divination;
The sun shall go down on the prophets,
And the day shall be dark for ^(J)them.
⁷ So the seers shall be ashamed,
And the diviners abashed;
Indeed they shall all cover their lips;
^(K)For there is no answer from God.”

⁸ But truly I am full of power by the Spirit of the Lord,
And of justice and might,
^(L)To declare to Jacob his transgression
And to Israel his sin.
⁹ Now hear this,
You heads of the house of Jacob
And rulers of the house of Israel,
Who abhor justice
And ^[e]pervert all equity,
^10 (M)Who build up Zion with ^(N)bloodshed
And Jerusalem with iniquity:
^11 (O)Her heads judge for a bribe,
^(P)Her priests teach for pay,
And her prophets divine for ^[f]money.
^(Q)Yet they lean on the Lord, and say,
“Is not the Lord among us?
No harm can come upon us.”
¹² Therefore because of you
Zion shall be ^(R)plowed like a field,
^(S)Jerusalem shall become heaps of ruins,
And ^(T)the mountain of the ^[g]temple
Like the bare hills of the forest.