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¹ A Prayer of David Bow down your ear, O Yahweh, and answer me; For I am poor and needy.² Preserve my soul; for I am godly: O you my God, save your slave that trusts in you.³ Be merciful to me, O Lord; For to you do I cry all the day long.⁴ Rejoice the soul of your slave; For to you, O Lord, do I lift up my soul.⁵ For you, Lord, are good, and ready to forgive, And abundant in loving-kindness to all those that call on you.⁶ Give ear, O Yahweh, to my prayer; And listen to the voice of my supplications.⁷ In the day of my trouble I will call on you; For you will answer me.

⁸ There is none like you among the gods, O Lord; Neither [are there any works] like your works.⁹ All nations whom you have made shall come and worship before you, O Lord; And they shall glorify your name.¹⁰ For you are great, and do wondrous things: You alone are God.¹¹ Teach me your way, O Yahweh; I will walk in your truth: Unite my heart to fear your name.¹² I will praise you, O Lord my God, with my whole heart; And I will glorify your name for evermore.¹³ For great is your loving-kindness toward me; And you have delivered my soul from the lowest Sheol.¹⁴ O God, the proud have risen up against me, And a company of violent men have sought after my soul, And have not set you before them.¹⁵ But you, O Lord, are a God merciful and gracious, Slow to anger, and abundant in loving-kindness and truth.¹⁶ Oh turn to me, and have mercy on me; Give your strength to your male slave, And save the son of your female slave.¹⁷ Show me a token for good, That those who hate me may see it, and be put to shame, Because you, Yahweh, have helped me, and comforted me.