Answered Prayer for Deliverance from Adversaries

¹ For the music director, with stringed instruments. A maskil of David, when the Ziphites went and said to Saul, “Is not David hiding himself among us?”¹ O God, by your name save me, and by your power vindicate me.

1. The Hebrew Bible counts the superscription as the first verse of the psalm; the English verse number is reduced by one

² O God, hear my prayer; heed the words of my mouth.

³ For foreigners have risen against me, and ruthless men seek my life. They have not set God before them. Selah

⁴ See, God is my helper; The Lord is with those who sustain my life.¹

1. Or “The Lord is the sustainer of my life.”

⁵ He will repay¹ my enemies for their² evil; in your faithfulness destroy them.

1. According to the reading tradition (Qere)
2. Hebrew “the”

⁶ I will freely sacrifice to you; I will give thanks to your name, O Yahweh, because it is good.

⁷ Because he has delivered me from all trouble, and my eye has looked with satisfaction on my enemies.