1(For the one directing. Mizmor Dovid)

2In Thee, Hashem, do I take refuge;
let me never be put to shame;
deliver me in Thy tzedakah.

3Incline Thine ear to me;
deliver me speedily;
be Thou for me a Tzur Ma'oz,
a Bais Metzudot (fortress) to save me.

4For Thou art my Sela (rock) and my Metzudah (fortress);
therefore for the sake of Thy Name, lead me, and guide me.

5Pull me out of the reshet (trap, net)
that they have laid for me;
for Thou art my ma'oz (stronghold).

6Into Thine yad I commit my ruach;
Thou hast redeemed me, Hashem El Emes. ²³

7I hate them that are the shomrim of lying vanities; ²⁴
but I trust in Hashem.

8I will be glad and rejoice in Thy chesed;
for Thou hast seen my affliction;
Thou hast known the tzoros (troubles) of my nefesh;

9And hast not shut me up into the yad of the oyev (enemy);
Thou hast set my feet in a merkhav
(large place, spacious or broad place).

10Channeni, Hashem, for I am in tzoros;
mine eye is consumed with ka'as (grief),
my nefesh and my beten.

11For my life is spent with grief,
and my years with groaning;
my ko'ach faileth because of mine avon (iniquity),
and my atzmot waste away.

12I was a cherpah (reproach, scorn, disgrace) among all mine enemies,
but especially among my shchenim (neighbors),
and a dread to mine acquaintance;
they that did see me outside fled from me.

13I am forgotten like a dead man out of mind;
I am like a keli oved (broken vessel).

14For I have heard the dibbah (evil report, slander) of many;
terror was on every side;
while they conspire against me,
they plot to take my nefesh.

15But I trust in Thee, Hashem;
I said, Thou art Elohai.

16My times are in Thy yad;
deliver me from the yad of mine oyevim (enemies),
and from them that persecute me.

17Make Thy face to shine upon Thy eved;
hoshi'eini (save me) for the sake of Thy chesed.

18Let me not be put to shame, Hashem;
for I have called upon Thee;
let the resha'im be put to shame,
and let them keep silent in Sheol.

19Let the siftei sheker (lying lips) be put to silence;
which speak insolent things with ga'avah (pride)
and contemptuously against the tzaddik.

20Oh how great is Thy goodness,
which Thou hast stored up for them that fear Thee;
which Thou hast wrought for them that take refuge in Thee
before the Bnei Adam!

21Thou shalt hide them b'seter (in the shelter) of Thy presence
from the intrigues of ish;
Thou shalt keep them safe in a sukkah
from the riv l'shonot (the strife of tongues, contentious lashon hora, backbiting, slander).

22Baruch Hashem! For He hath showed me
His wondrous chesed in an Ir Matzor (besieged city).

23For I said in my haste,
I am cut off from before Thine eyes;
nevertheless Thou heardest the voice of my tachanun (supplications)
when unto Thee I cried for help.

24O love Hashem, all ye His Chasidim;
for Hashem preserveth the emunim (the faithful ones),
but He pays back in full the oseh ga'avah (the one acting in pride, haughtily).

25Chazak! Be strong, let your levav take courage,
all ye that hope in Hashem.