² Keep me safe in your righteousness, and come to my help; give ear to my voice, and be my saviour.

⁶ My cry has gone up to you, for you will give me an answer, O God: let your ear be turned to me, and give attention to my words.

¹ <To the chief music-maker. A Psalm. Of David.> In you, O Lord, have I put my hope; let me never be shamed; keep me safe in your righteousness.

¹³ You have been put to no test but such as is common to man: and God is true, who will not let any test come on you which you are not able to undergo; but he will make with the test a way out of it, so that you may be able to go through it.

¹⁶ O Lord, because of your righteousness, let your wrath and your passion be turned away from your town Jerusalem, your holy mountain: because, through our sins and the evil-doing of our fathers, Jerusalem and your people have become a cause of shame to all who are round about us.

¹¹ Give me life, O Lord, because of your name; in your righteousness take my soul out of trouble.

¹ <A Psalm. Of David.> Let my prayer come to you, O Lord; give ear to my requests for your grace; keep faith with me, and give me an answer in your righteousness;

¹ I have given my love to the Lord, because he has given ear to the voice of my cry and my prayer.

² He has let my request come before him, and I will make my prayer to him all my days.

¹ Be my judge, O God, supporting my cause against a nation without religion; O keep me from the false and evil man.

¹⁵ The eyes of the Lord are on the upright, and his ears are open to their cry.

² Be my judge; for your eyes see what is right.

¹⁷ Lord, you have given ear to the prayer of the poor: you will make strong their hearts, you will give them a hearing:

¹⁸ To give decision for the child without a father and for the broken-hearted, so that the man of the earth may no longer be feared.