The prayer of David. Hear, O Lord, my justice: attend to my supplication. Give ear unto my prayer, which proceedeth not from deceitful lips.
Unto the end, destroy not, for David, for an inscription of a title, when he fled from Saul into the cave.
The earth shook and trembled: the foundations of the mountains were troubled and were moved, because he was angry with them.
Truth is sprung out of the earth: and justice hath looked down from heaven.
For which cause I also suffer these things: but I am not ashamed. For I know whom I have believed, and I am certain that he is able to keep that which I have committed unto him, against that day.
Keeping the paths of justice, and guarding the ways of saints.
Great is our Lord, and great is his power: and of his wisdom there is no number.
And the Lord is become a refuge for the poor: a helper in due time in tribulation.
The psalm of David which he sung to the Lord for the words of Chusi the son of Jemini.
A gradual canticle. When the Lord brought back the captivity of Sion, we became like men comforted.
Unto the end, in hymns, for David.
The sorrows of death surrounded me: and the torrents of iniquity troubled me.
But we had in ourselves the answer of death, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God who raiseth the dead.
O Lord my God, in thee have I put my trust: save me from all them that persecute me, and deliver me.