12
I am forgotten as though I were dead; I have become like broken pottery.
13
For I hear many whispering, “Terror on every side!” They conspire against me and plot to take my life.
14
But I trust in you, LORD; I say, “You are my God.”
15
My times are in your hands; deliver me from the hands of my enemies, from those who pursue me.
16
Let your face shine on your servant; save me in your unfailing love.
17
Let me not be put to shame, LORD, for I have cried out to you; but let the wicked be put to shame and be silent in the realm of the dead.
18
Let their lying lips be silenced, for with pride and contempt they speak arrogantly against the righteous.
19
How abundant are the good things that you have stored up for those who fear you, that you bestow in the sight of all, on those who take refuge in you.
20
In the shelter of your presence you hide them from all human intrigues; you keep them safe in your dwelling from accusing tongues.
21
Praise be to the LORD, for he showed me the wonders of his love when I was in a city under siege.
22
In my alarm I said, “I am cut off from your sight!” Yet you heard my cry for mercy when I called to you for help.
To the chief Musician, a Psalm of David. This psalm, according to Arama, was composed by David when in Keilah; but, according to Kimchi and others, when the Ziphites proposed to deliver him up into the hands of Saul; and who, upon their solicitations, came down and surrounded him with his army, from whom in haste he made his escape, and to which he is thought to refer in Psalm 31:22. Theodoret supposes it was written by David when he fled from Absalom, and that it has some respect in it to his sin against Uriah, in that verse.