1For the leader. On jonath elem rehokim. Of David. A michtam, when the Philistines seized him in Gath. O God, be gracious to me, for people trample upon me, all the day righting and pressing me.
2All the day enemies trample me; many there be who contend with me bitterly.
3In the day of my terror I trust in you.
4In God I maintain my cause, in God I fearlessly trust. What can flesh do to me?
5They torture me all the day, they ceaselessly plan to hurt me,
6banded together in secret, watching my every step, as those who hope for my death.
7Pay them out for their sin, O God, hurl down the strong in your anger.
8You yourself count my wanderings. Put in your bottle my tears are they not in your book?
9Then shall my foes be turned back in the day that I call. Of this I am sure, because God is for me.
10In God I maintain my cause, in the Lord I maintain my cause.
11In God I fearlessly trust, what can people do to me?
12Your vows are upon me, O God, I will render thank-offerings to you;
13because you have saved me from death, my feet from stumbling, to the end that I walk before God in the light of the living.
