⁰To the choirmaster, a psalm of David.

¹I waited and waited for Yahweh; he bent down to me and he heard my cry for help.

²He brought me up from the pit of tumult, from the mud of the mire, and set my feet on a crag; he established my steps.

³He put a new song in my mouth, praise for our God; many will see, and they will fear, and they will trust in Yahweh.

⁴Blessed is the man who has put his security in Yahweh, and has not turned to the proud or those who fall away to a lie.

⁵Many things you have done, Yahweh my God—your wonders and your plans toward us; there is none to compare with you. I would tell and speak of them, but they are too many to recount.

⁶Sacrifice and grain offering you did not take delight in; ears you have dug out for me; burnt offering and sin offering you did not ask for.

⁷Then I said, Here, I have come; in the scroll of the record it is written about me.

⁸To do your pleasure, my God, I took delight, and your instruction is in the middle of my inward parts.

⁹I bore news of righteousness in the great company; look, I do not restrain my lips, Yahweh, you know.

¹⁰Your righteousness I did not cover in the middle of my heart; your steadiness and your deliverance I spoke of; I did not hide your loyal love and your stability from the great company.

¹¹You, Yahweh, will not withhold your compassion from me; your loyal love and your stability will always keep me.

¹²For evils have surrounded me without number; my guilt has overtaken me, and I am not able to see; they are more numerous than the hairs of my head, and my heart has forsaken me.

¹³Be pleased, Yahweh, to deliver me; Yahweh, hasten to my help.

¹⁴May they be ashamed and abashed together, those who seek my being to sweep it away; may they be turned back, backward, and humiliated, those who delight in my evil.

¹⁵May they be appalled on account of their shame, those who say to me, Aha, aha!

¹⁶May all who seek you exult and rejoice in you; may those who love your deliverance say continually, May Yahweh become great!

¹⁷As for me, I am poor and needy; may the Lord reckon on my behalf. You are my help and my rescuer; my God, do not delay.