1: I run to you, GOD; I run for dear life. Don't let me down! Take me seriously this time!
2: Get down on my level and listen, and please--no procrastination! Your granite cave a hiding place, your high cliff aerie a place of safety.
3: You're my cave to hide in, my cliff to climb. Be my safe leader, be my true mountain guide.
4: Free me from hidden traps; I want to hide in you.
5: I've put my life in your hands. You won't drop me, you'll never let me down.
6: I hate all this silly religion, but you, GOD, I trust.
7: I'm leaping and singing in the circle of your love; you saw my pain, you disarmed my tormentors,
8: You didn't leave me in their clutches but gave me room to breathe.
9: Be kind to me, GOD- I'm in deep, deep trouble again. I've cried my eyes out; I feel hollow inside.
10: My life leaks away, groan by groan; my years fade out in sighs. My troubles have worn me out, turned my bones to powder.
11: To my enemies I'm a monster; I'm ridiculed by the neighbors. My friends are horrified; they cross the street to avoid me.
12: They want to blot me from memory, forget me like a corpse in a grave, discard me like a broken dish in the trash.
13: The street-talk gossip has me "criminally insane"! Behind locked doors they plot how to ruin me for good.
14: Desperate, I throw myself on you: you are my God!
15: Hour by hour I place my days in your hand, safe from the hands out to get me.
16: Warm me, your servant, with a smile; save me because you love me.
17: Don't embarrass me by not showing up; I've given you plenty of notice. Embarrass the wicked, stand them up, leave them stupidly shaking their heads as they drift down to hell.
18: Gag those loudmouthed liars who heckle me, your follower, with jeers and catcalls.
19: What a stack of blessing you have piled up for those who worship you, Ready and waiting for all who run to you to escape an unkind world.
20: You hide them safely away from the opposition. As you slam the door on those oily, mocking faces, you silence the poisonous gossip.
21: Blessed GOD! His love is the wonder of the world. Trapped by a siege,
22: I panicked. "Out of sight, out of mind," I said. But you heard me say it, you heard and listened.
23: Love GOD, all you saints; GOD takes care of all who stay close to him, But he pays back in full those arrogant enough to go it alone.
24: Be brave. Be strong. Don't give up. Expect GOD to get here soon.