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1 In Thee, O Jehovah, I have trusted, Let me not be ashamed  to the age.
2 In Thy righteousness Thou dost deliver me, And dost cause  me to escape, Incline unto me Thine ear, and save me.
3 Be to me for a rock -- a habitation, To go in continually,  Thou hast given command to save me, For my rock and my bulwark  [art] Thou.
4 O my God, cause me to escape From the hand of the wicked,  From the hand of the perverse and violent.
5 For Thou [art] my hope, O Lord Jehovah, My trust from my  youth.
6 By Thee I have been supported from the womb, From my  mother's bowels Thou dost cut me out, In Thee [is] my praise  continually.
7 As a wonder I have been to many, And Thou [art] my strong  refuge.
8 Filled is my mouth [with] Thy praise, All the day [with]  Thy beauty.
9 Cast me not off at the time of old age, According to the  consumption of my power forsake me not.
10 For mine enemies have spoken against me, And those  watching my soul have taken counsel together,
11 Saying, `God hath forsaken him, Pursue and catch him, for  there is no deliverer.'
12 O God, be not far from me, O my God, for my help make  haste.
13 They are ashamed, they are consumed, Who are opposing my  soul, They are covered [with] reproach and blushing, Who are  seeking my evil,
14 And I continually do wait with hope, And have added unto  all Thy praise.
15 My mouth recounteth Thy righteousness, All the day Thy  salvation, For I have not known the numbers.
16 I come in the might of the Lord Jehovah, I mention Thy  righteousness -- Thine only.
17 God, Thou hast taught me from my youth, And hitherto I  declare Thy wonders.
18 And also unto old age and grey hairs, O God, forsake me  not, Till I declare Thy strength to a generation, To every one  that cometh Thy might.
19 And Thy righteousness, O God, [is] unto the heights,  Because Thou hast done great things, O God, who [is] like Thee?
20 Because Thou hast showed me many and sad distresses, Thou  turnest back -- Thou revivest me, And from the depths of the  earth, Thou turnest back -- Thou bringest me up.
21 Thou dost increase my greatness, And Thou surroundest --  Thou comfortest me,
22 I also thank Thee with a vessel of psaltery, Thy truth, O  my God, I sing to Thee with a harp, O Holy One of Israel,
23 My lips cry aloud when I sing praise to Thee, And my soul  that Thou hast redeemed,
24 My tongue also all the day uttereth Thy righteousness,  Because ashamed -- because confounded, Have been those seeking  my evil!