1-2 God! Look! Enemies past counting!
Enemies sprouting like mushrooms,
Mobs of them all around me, roaring their mockery:
“Hah! No help for him from God!”

3-4 But you, God, shield me on all sides;
You ground my feet, you lift my head high;
With all my might I shout up to God,
His answers thunder from the holy mountain.

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Many are saying of me,
    “God will not deliver him.(A)[a]

But you, Lord, are a shield(B) around me,
    my glory, the One who lifts my head high.(C)
I call out to the Lord,(D)
    and he answers me from his holy mountain.(E)

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 3:2 The Hebrew has Selah (a word of uncertain meaning) here and at the end of verses 4 and 8.