¹God, because of your very nature, please save me! Vindicate me by your power![#54:1. Literally, “name.”]

²God, please hear my prayer; listen to what I'm saying.

³For strangers are coming to attack me—violent men who don't care about God are trying to kill me. Selah.

⁴But God helps me; the Lord saves my life!

⁵The evil my enemies have done will come back upon them. I depend on you to destroy them.

⁶I will happily offer a sacrifice to you; I will praise the kind of person you are, Lord, for you are good.[#54:6. Literally, “your name.”]

⁷For he has saved me from all my troubles; and I have seen those who hated me defeated.[#54:7. “Defeated”: implied. Literally, “with my eye I have looked at those who hate me.”]