1 God, because of your very nature,* please save me! Vindicate me by your power!

2 God, please hear my prayer; listen to what I'm saying.

3 For strangers are coming to attack me—violent men who don't care about God are trying to kill me. Selah.

4 But God helps me; the Lord saves my life!

5 The evil my enemies have done will come back upon them. I depend on you to destroy them.

6 I will happily offer a sacrifice to you; I will praise the kind of person you are,* Lord, for you are good.

7 For he has saved me from all my troubles; and I have seen those who hated me defeated.*