1For the Chief Musician; set to Jonath elem rehokim. A Psalm of David. Michtam; when the Philistines took him in Gath. Be merciful to me, O God; for man would swallow me up: All the day long he fighting oppresses me.
2My enemies would swallow me up all the day long; For they are many who fight proudly against me.
3When I am afraid, I will put my trust in you.
4In God (I will praise his word), In God I have put my trust, I will not be afraid; What can flesh do to me?
5All the day long they wrest my words: All their thoughts are against me for evil.
6They gather themselves together, they hide themselves, They mark my steps, Even as they have waited for my soul.
7Shall they escape by iniquity? In anger cast down the peoples, O God.
8You number my wanderings: Put my tears into your bottle; Are they not in your book?
9Then my enemies shall turn back in the day that I call: This I know, that God is for me.
10In God (I will praise his word), In Yehovah (I will praise his word),
11In God I have put my trust, I will not be afraid; What can man do to me?
12Your vows are upon me, O God: I will render thank offerings to you.
13For you have delivered my soul from death: Have you not delivered my feet from falling, That I may walk before God In the light of the living?