1 Be merciful to me, God, for man wants to swallow me up.

All day long, he attacks and oppresses me.

2 My enemies want to swallow me up all day long,

for they are many who fight proudly against me.

3 When I am afraid,

I will put my trust in you.

4 In God, I praise his word.

In God, I put my trust.

I will not be afraid.

What can flesh do to me?

5 All day long they twist my words.

All their thoughts are against me for evil.

6 They conspire and lurk,

watching my steps.

They are eager to take my life.

7 Shall they escape by iniquity?

In anger cast down the peoples, God.

8 You count my wanderings.

You put my tears into your container.

Aren’t they in your book?

9 Then my enemies shall turn back in the day that I call.

I know this: that God is for me.

10 In God, I will praise his word.

In Yahweh, I will praise his word.

11 I have put my trust in God.

I will not be afraid.

What can man do to me?

12 Your vows are on me, God.

I will give thank offerings to you.

13 For you have delivered my soul from death,

and prevented my feet from falling,

that I may walk before God in the light of the living.

1 To the Overcomer upon: The silent dove in a distant land, Michtam of David, when the Philistines took him in Gath. Be merciful unto me, O God, for man would swallow me up; he oppresses me fighting me daily.

2 My enemies would daily swallow [me] up, for [they are] many that fight against me, O thou most High.

3 When I am afraid, I will trust in thee.

4 In God I will praise his word, in God I have put my trust; I will not fear what flesh can do unto me.

5 Every day my life is filled with sorrow; all their thoughts [are] against me for evil.

6 They gather themselves together, they hide themselves, they mark my steps when they wait for my soul.

7 Shall they escape by iniquity? in [thine] anger cast down the peoples, O God.

8 Thou tellest my wanderings; put my tears into thy bottle; [are they] not in thy book?

9 When I cry [unto thee], then shall my enemies be turned back; in this I know that God [is] for me.

10 In God I will praise [his] word; in the LORD I will praise [his] word.

11 In God I have put my trust; I will not be afraid [of] what man can do unto me.

12 Thy promises [are] upon me, O God; I will render praises unto thee.

13 For [thou hast] delivered my life from death; thou hast kept my feet from falling, that I may walk before God in the light of the living.: