Psalms 27-32

Psalm 27

¹A Psalm of David. Jehovah is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? Jehovah is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?

²When evil-doers, mine adversaries and mine enemies, came upon me to eat up my flesh, they stumbled and fell.

³If a host encamp against me, my heart shall not fear; if war rise against me, in this will I be confident.

⁴One thing have I asked of Jehovah, that will I seek after: that I may dwell in the house of Jehovah all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of Jehovah, and to inquire of him in his temple.

⁵For in the day of evil he will hide me in his pavilion; in the secret of his tent will he keep me concealed: he will set me high upon a rock.

⁶And now shall my head be lifted up above mine enemies round about me; and I will offer in his tent sacrifices of shouts of joy: I will sing, yea, I will sing psalms unto Jehovah.

⁷Hear, Jehovah; with my voice do I call; be gracious unto me, and answer me.

⁸My heart said for thee, Seek ye my face. Thy face, O Jehovah, will I seek.

⁹Hide not thy face from me; put not thy servant away in anger: thou hast been my help; cast me not off, neither forsake me, O God of my salvation.

¹⁰For had my father and my mother forsaken me, then had Jehovah taken me up.

¹¹Teach me thy way, Jehovah, and lead me in an even path, because of mine enemies.

¹²Deliver me not over to the will of mine adversaries; for false witnesses are risen up against me, and such as breathe out violence.

¹³Unless I had believed to see the goodness of Jehovah in the land of the living ...!

¹⁴Wait for Jehovah; be strong and let thy heart take courage: yea, wait for Jehovah.

Psalm 28

¹A Psalm of David. Unto thee, Jehovah, do I call; my rock, be not silent unto me, lest, if thou keep silence toward me, I become like them that go down into the pit.

²Hear the voice of my supplications, when I cry unto thee, when I lift up my hands toward the oracle of thy holiness.

³Draw me not away with the wicked, and with the workers of iniquity, who speak peace to their neighbours, and mischief is in their heart.

⁴Give them according to their doing, and according to the wickedness of their deeds; give them after the work of their hands, render to them their desert.

⁵For they regard not the deeds of Jehovah, nor the work of his hands: he will destroy them, and not build them up.

⁶Blessed be Jehovah, for he hath heard the voice of my supplications.

⁷Jehovah is my strength and my shield; my heart confided in him, and I was helped: therefore my heart exulteth, and with my song will I praise him.

⁸Jehovah is their strength; and he is the stronghold of salvation to his anointed one.

⁹Save thy people, and bless thine inheritance; and feed them, and lift them up for ever.

Psalm 29

¹A Psalm of David. Give unto Jehovah, ye sons of the mighty ones, give unto Jehovah glory and strength;

²Give unto Jehovah the glory of his name; worship Jehovah in holy splendour.

³The voice of Jehovah is upon the waters: the God of glory thundereth, -- Jehovah upon great waters.

⁴The voice of Jehovah is powerful; the voice of Jehovah is full of majesty.

⁵The voice of Jehovah breaketh cedars; yea, Jehovah breaketh the cedars of Lebanon:

⁶And he maketh them to skip like a calf, Lebanon and Sirion like a young buffalo.

⁷The voice of Jehovah cleaveth out flames of fire.

⁸The voice of Jehovah shaketh the wilderness; Jehovah shaketh the wilderness of Kadesh.

⁹The voice of Jehovah maketh the hinds to calve, and layeth bare the forests; and in his temple doth every one say, Glory!

¹⁰Jehovah sitteth upon the flood; yea, Jehovah sitteth as king for ever.

¹¹Jehovah will give strength unto his people; Jehovah will bless his people with peace.

Psalm 30

¹A Psalm of David: dedication-song of the house. I will extol thee, Jehovah; for thou hast delivered me, and hast not made mine enemies to rejoice over me.

²Jehovah my God, I cried unto thee, and thou hast healed me.

³Jehovah, thou hast brought up my soul from Sheol, thou hast quickened me from among those that go down to the pit.

⁴Sing psalms unto Jehovah, ye saints of his, and give thanks in remembrance of his holiness.

⁵For a moment is passed in his anger, a life in his favour; at even weeping cometh for the night, and at morn there is rejoicing.

⁶As for me, I said in my prosperity, I shall never be moved.

⁷Jehovah, by thy favour thou hadst made my mountain to stand strong: thou didst hide thy face; I was troubled.

⁸I called to thee, Jehovah, and unto the Lord did I make supplication:

⁹What profit is there in my blood, in my going down to the pit? shall the dust praise thee? shall it declare thy truth?

¹⁰Hear, O Jehovah, and be gracious unto me; Jehovah, be my helper.

¹¹Thou hast turned for me my mourning into dancing; thou hast loosed my sackcloth, and girded me with gladness;

¹²That my glory may sing psalms of thee, and not be silent. Jehovah my God, I will praise thee for ever.

Psalm 31

¹To the chief Musician. A Psalm of David. In thee, Jehovah, do I trust; let me never be ashamed: deliver me in thy righteousness.

²Incline thine ear to me, deliver me speedily; be a strong rock to me, a house of defence to save me.

³For thou art my rock and my fortress; and, for thy name's sake, thou wilt lead me and guide me.

⁴Draw me out of the net that they have hidden for me; for thou art my strength.

⁵Into thy hand I commit my spirit: thou hast redeemed me, Jehovah, thou God of truth.

⁶I have hated them that observe lying vanities; and as for me, I have confided in Jehovah.

⁷I will be glad and rejoice in thy loving-kindness, for thou hast seen mine affliction; thou hast known the troubles of my soul,

⁸And hast not shut me up into the hand of the enemy: thou hast set my feet in a large place.

⁹Be gracious unto me, Jehovah, for I am in trouble: mine eye wasteth away with vexation, my soul and my belly.

¹⁰For my life is spent with sorrow, and my years with sighing; my strength faileth through mine iniquity, and my bones are wasted.

¹¹More than to all mine oppressors, I am become exceedingly a reproach, even to my neighbours, and a fear to mine acquaintance: they that see me without flee from me.

¹²I am forgotten in their heart as a dead man; I am become like a broken vessel.

¹³For I have heard the slander of many -- terror on every side -- when they take counsel together against me: they plot to take away my life.

¹⁴But I confided in thee, Jehovah; I said, thou art my God.

¹⁵My times are in thy hand: deliver me from the hand of mine enemies, and from my persecutors.

¹⁶Make thy face to shine upon thy servant; save me in thy loving-kindness.

¹⁷Jehovah, let me not be ashamed; for I have called upon thee: let the wicked be ashamed, let them be silent in Sheol.

¹⁸Let the lying lips become dumb, which speak insolently against the righteous in pride and contempt.

¹⁹Oh how great is thy goodness, which thou hast laid up for them that fear thee, which thou hast wrought for them that trust in thee, before the sons of men!

²⁰Thou keepest them concealed in the secret of thy presence from the conspiracies of man; thou hidest them in a pavilion from the strife of tongues.

²¹Blessed be Jehovah; for he hath shewn me wondrously his loving-kindness in a strong city.

²²As for me, I said in my haste, I am cut off from before thine eyes; nevertheless thou heardest the voice of my supplications when I cried unto thee.

²³Love Jehovah, all ye his saints. Jehovah preserveth the faithful, and plentifully requiteth the proud doer.

²⁴Be strong, and let your heart take courage, all ye that hope in Jehovah.

Psalm 32

¹Of David. Instruction. Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered!

²Blessed is the man unto whom Jehovah reckoneth not iniquity, and in whose spirit there is no guile!

³When I kept silence, my bones waxed old, through my groaning all the day long.

⁴For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me; my moisture was turned into the drought of summer. Selah.

⁵I acknowledged my sin unto thee, and mine iniquity I covered not; I said, I will confess my transgressions unto Jehovah, and *thou* forgavest the iniquity of my sin. Selah.

⁶For this shall every one that is godly pray unto thee at a time when thou mayest be found: surely in the floods of great waters they will not reach him.

⁷Thou art a hiding-place for me; thou preservest me from trouble; thou dost encompass me with songs of deliverance. Selah.

⁸I will instruct thee and teach thee the way in which thou shalt go; I will counsel thee with mine eye upon thee.

⁹Be ye not as a horse, as a mule, which have no understanding: whose trappings must be bit and bridle, for restraint, or they will not come unto thee.

¹⁰Many sorrows hath the wicked; but he that confideth in Jehovah, loving-kindness shall encompass him.

¹¹Rejoice in Jehovah, and be glad, ye righteous; and shout for joy, all ye upright in heart.