1  rBe gracious to me, O God, for man stramples on me;

all day long an attacker oppresses me;

2  my enemies trample on me all day long,

for many attack me proudly.

3  When I am afraid,

I tput my trust in you.

4  In God, whose word I praise,

in God I trust; uI shall not be afraid.

What can flesh do to me?

5  All day long they injure my cause;2

all their thoughts are against me for evil.

6  They vstir up strife, they wlurk;

they xwatch my steps,

as they have waited for my life.

7  For their crime will they escape?

yIn wrath zcast down the peoples, O God!

8  You have kept count of my tossings;3

aput my tears in your bottle.

bAre they not in your book?

9  Then my enemies will turn back

cin the day when I call.

This I know, that4 dGod is for me.

10  In God, whose word I praise,

in the Lord, whose word I praise,

11  in God I trust; uI shall not be afraid.

What can man do to me?

12  I must perform my evows to you, O God;

I will erender thank offerings to you.

13  fFor you have delivered my soul from death,

yes, my feet from falling,

gthat I may walk before God

hin the light of life.