¹ In thee, O LORD, do I put my trust:
let me never [not ever] be put to confusion.
² Deliver me in thy righteousness,
and cause me to escape:
incline thine ear unto me,
and save me.
³ Be thou my strong habitation,
whereunto I may continually resort:
thou hast given commandment to save me;
for thou art my rock and my fortress.
⁴ Deliver me, O my God,
out of the hand of the wicked,
out of the hand of the unrighteous and cruel man.

⁵ For thou art my hope, O Lord GOD:
thou art my trust from my youth.
⁶ By thee have I been holden up from the womb:
thou art he that took me out of my mother's bowels:
my praise shall be continually of thee.
⁷ I am as a wonder unto many;
but thou art my strong refuge.
⁸ Let my mouth be filled with thy praise
and with thy honour
all the day.
⁹ Cast me not off in the time of old age;
forsake me not when my strength faileth.

¹⁰ For mine enemies speak against me;
and they that lay wait for my soul take counsel together,
¹¹ Saying, God hath forsaken him:
persecute and take him;
for there is none to deliver him.
¹² O God, be not far from me:
O my God, make haste for my help.
¹³ Let them be confounded and consumed
that are adversaries to my soul;
let them be covered with reproach and dishonour
that seek my hurt.

¹⁴ But I will hope continually,
and will yet praise thee more and more.
¹⁵ My mouth shall shew forth thy righteousness and thy salvation all the day;
for I know not the numbers thereof.
¹⁶ I will go in the strength of the Lord GOD:
I will make mention of thy righteousness,
even of thine only.
¹⁷ O God, thou hast taught me from my youth:
and hitherto have I declared thy wondrous works.
¹⁸ Now also when I am old and grayheaded, O God,
forsake me not;
until I have shewed thy strength unto this generation,
and thy power to every one that is to come.
¹⁹ Thy righteousness also, O God,
is very high,
who hast done great things:
O God, who is like unto thee!

²⁰ Thou, which hast shewed me great and sore troubles,
shalt quicken me again,
and shalt bring me up again from the depths of the earth.
²¹ Thou shalt increase my greatness,
and comfort me on every side.
²² I will also praise thee with the psaltery [with an instrument of psalmody],
even thy truth, O my God:
unto thee will I sing with the harp,
O thou Holy One of Israel.
²³ My lips shall greatly rejoice when I sing unto thee;
and my soul,
which thou hast redeemed.
²⁴ My tongue also shall talk of thy righteousness all the day long:
for they are confounded,
for they are bought unto shame,
that seek my hurt.

* NOTE: On Opening and Closing Comments in the Psalms.
[Some commentators take the Psalm in Habakkuk 3 to be a standard model for the Psalms.
Habakkuk's Psalm begins with the name of the composer (Habakkuk) and a musical notation ("upon Shigionoth").
It closes with a dedication or a "send to" notice ("To the chief singer on my stringed instruments").
I have arranged similar material, where it is found in the Psalter, in accord with the model in Habakkuk.]