Out of the mouth of children and sucklings, hast thou laid a foundation of strength, - because of thine adversaries, to make foe and avenger be still.

When I view thy heavens, the work, of thy fingers, moon and stars, which thou hast established,

He rescued me from my foe, in his might, and from them who hated me, because they were too strong for me:

O my God, in thee, have I put my trust, Let me not be put to shame, Let not my foe exult over me:

One thing, have I asked of Yahweh, That, will I seek to secure, - That I may dwell in the house of Yahweh, all the days of my life, To view the delightfulness of Yahweh, And to contemplate in his temple.

And hast not shut me up in the hand of the foe, Thou hast given standing, in a roomy place, unto my feet.

At the voice of him who reproacheth and revileth, At the face of the foe and avenger.

Come! view the doings of Yahweh, - Who hath set desolations in the earth;

For thou hast been, A Refuge to me, A Tower of Strength, from the face of the foe.

Hear, O God, my voice when I complain, From dread peril by the foe, wilt thou guard my life.

Thine, are silence and praise, O God, in Zion, - And, to thee, shall be paid the vow.

Lift up thy steps unto the places utterly unsafe, All the mischief! - the foe in the sanctuary!

Vow and pay, unto Yahweh your God, - Let, all who are round about him, bear along a gift unto him who is to be revered.

Who said - Let us take a possession foe ourselves, The pastures of God!

No foe shall make exactions on him, Nor shall, a son of perversity, humiliate him;

While as yet they were men easily counted, - A very few, and sojourners therein;

And saved them from the hand of one full of hatred, And redeemed them out of the hand of the foe;

Thus hath he blessed them, and they have multiplied greatly, And, their cattle, he maketh not few.

So have they become few and been brought low, By oppression, misfortune, and sorrow;

Let his days become few, his overseership, let another take;

How few are the days of thy servant! When wilt thou execute sentence on my persecutors?