Psalms 27-32

Psalm 27

¹By David. Jehovah is my light and my salvation, Whom do I fear? Jehovah is the strength of my life, Of whom am I afraid?

²When evil doers come near to me to eat my flesh, My adversaries and mine enemies to me, They have stumbled and fallen.

³Though a host doth encamp against me, My heart doth not fear, Though war riseth up against me, In this I am confident.

⁴One thing I asked of Jehovah -- it I seek. My dwelling in the house of Jehovah, All the days of my life, To look on the pleasantness of Jehovah, And to inquire in His temple.

⁵For He hideth me in a tabernacle in the day of evil, He hideth me in a secret place of His tent, On a rock he raiseth me up.

⁶And now, lifted up is my head, Above my enemies -- my surrounders, And I sacrifice in His tent sacrifices of shouting, I sing, yea, I sing praise to Jehovah.

⁷Hear, O Jehovah, my voice -- I call, And favour me, and answer me.

⁸To Thee said my heart ‘They sought my face, Thy face, O Jehovah, I seek.'

⁹Hide not Thy face from me, Turn not aside in anger Thy servant, My help Thou hast been. Leave me not, nor forsake me, O God of my salvation.

¹⁰When my father and my mother Have forsaken me, then doth Jehovah gather me.

¹¹Shew me, O Jehovah, Thy way, And lead me in a path of uprightness, For the sake of my beholders.

¹²Give me not to the will of my adversaries, For risen against me have false witnesses, And they breathe out violence to me.

¹³I had not believed to look on the goodness of Jehovah In the land of the living!

¹⁴Look unto Jehovah -- be strong, And He doth strengthen thy heart, Yea, look unto Jehovah!

Psalm 28

¹By David. Unto Thee, O Jehovah, I call, My rock, be not silent to me! Lest Thou be silent to me, And I have been compared With those going down to the pit.

²Hear the voice of my supplications, In my crying unto Thee, In my lifting up my hands toward thy holy oracle.

³Draw me not with the wicked, And with workers of iniquity, Speaking peace with their neighbours, And evil in their heart.

⁴Give to them according to their acting, And according to the evil of their doings. According to the work of their hands give to them. Return their deed to them.

⁵For they attend not to the doing of Jehovah, And unto the work of His hands. He throweth them down, And doth not build them up.

⁶Blessed is Jehovah, For He hath heard the voice of my supplications.

⁷Jehovah is my strength, and my shield, In Him my heart trusted, and I have been helped. And my heart exulteth, And with my song I thank Him.

⁸Jehovah is strength to him, Yea, the strength of the salvation of His anointed is He.

⁹Save Thy people, and bless Thine inheritance, And feed them, and carry them to the age!

Psalm 29

¹A Psalm of David. Ascribe to Jehovah, ye sons of the mighty, Ascribe to Jehovah honour and strength.

²Ascribe to Jehovah the honour of His name, Bow yourselves to Jehovah, In the beauty of holiness.

³The voice of Jehovah is on the waters, The God of glory hath thundered, Jehovah is on many waters.

⁴The voice of Jehovah is with power, The voice of Jehovah is with majesty,

⁵The voice of Jehovah is shivering cedars, Yea, Jehovah shivers the cedars of Lebanon.

⁶And He causeth them to skip as a calf, Lebanon and Sirion as a son of Reems,

⁷The voice of Jehovah is hewing fiery flames,

⁸The voice of Jehovah paineth a wilderness, Jehovah paineth the wilderness of Kadesh.

⁹The voice of Jehovah paineth the oaks, And maketh bare the forests, And in His temple every one saith, ‘Glory.'

¹⁰Jehovah on the deluge hath sat, And Jehovah sitteth king -- to the age,

¹¹Jehovah strength to his people giveth, Jehovah blesseth His people with peace!

Psalm 30

¹A Psalm. -- A song of the dedication of the house of David. I exalt Thee, O Jehovah, For Thou hast drawn me up, and hast not let mine enemies rejoice over me.

²Jehovah my God, I have cried to Thee, And Thou dost heal me.

³Jehovah, Thou hast brought up from Sheol my soul, Thou hast kept me alive, From going down to the pit.

⁴Sing praise to Jehovah, ye His saints, And give thanks at the remembrance of His holiness,

⁵For -- a moment is in His anger, Life is in His good-will, At even remaineth weeping, and at morn singing.

⁶And I -- I have said in mine ease, ‘I am not moved -- to the age.

⁷O Jehovah, in Thy good pleasure, Thou hast caused strength to remain for my mountain,' Thou hast hidden Thy face -- I have been troubled.

⁸Unto Thee, O Jehovah, I call, And unto Jehovah I make supplication.

⁹‘What gain is in my blood? In my going down unto corruption? Doth dust thank Thee? doth it declare Thy truth?

¹⁰Hear, O Jehovah, and favour me, O Jehovah, be a helper to me.'

¹¹Thou hast turned my mourning to dancing for me, Thou hast loosed my sackcloth, And girdest me with joy.

¹²So that honour doth praise Thee, and is not silent, O Jehovah, my God, to the age I thank Thee!

Psalm 31

¹To the Overseer. -- A Psalm of David. In Thee, O Jehovah, I have trusted, Let me not be ashamed to the age, In Thy righteousness deliver me.

²Incline unto me Thine ear hastily, deliver me, Be to me for a strong rock, For a house of bulwarks to save me.

³For my rock and my bulwark art Thou, For Thy name's sake lead me and tend me.

⁴Bring me out from the net that they hid for me, For Thou art my strength.

⁵Into Thy hand I commit my spirit, Thou hast redeemed me, Jehovah God of truth.

⁶I have hated the observers of lying vanities, And I toward Jehovah have been confident.

⁷I rejoice, and am glad in Thy kindness, In that Thou hast seen mine affliction, Thou hast known in adversities my soul.

⁸And Thou hast not shut me up, Into the hand of an enemy, Thou hast caused my feet to stand in a broad place.

⁹Favour me, O Jehovah, for distress is to me, Mine eye, my soul, and my body Have become old by provocation.

¹⁰For my life hath been consumed in sorrow And my years in sighing. Feeble because of mine iniquity hath been my strength, And my bones have become old.

¹¹Among all mine adversaries I have been a reproach, And to my neighbours exceedingly, And a fear to mine acquaintances, Those seeing me without -- fled from me.

¹²I have been forgotten as dead out of mind, I have been as a perishing vessel.

¹³For I have heard an evil account of many, Fear is round about. In their being united against me, To take my life they have devised,

¹⁴And I on Thee -- I have trusted, O Jehovah, I have said, ‘Thou art my God.'

¹⁵In Thy hand are my times, Deliver me from the hand of my enemies, And from my pursuers.

¹⁶Cause Thy face to shine on Thy servant, Save me in Thy kindness.

¹⁷O Jehovah, let me not be ashamed, For I have called Thee, let the wicked be ashamed, Let them become silent to Sheol.

¹⁸Let lips of falsehood become dumb, That are speaking against the righteous, Ancient sayings, in pride and contempt.

¹⁹How abundant is Thy goodness, That Thou hast laid up for those fearing Thee,

²⁰Thou hast wrought for those trusting in Thee, Before sons of men. Thou hidest them in the secret place of Thy presence, From artifices of man, Thou concealest them in a tabernacle, From the strife of tongues.

²¹Blessed is Jehovah, For He hath made marvellous His kindness To me in a city of bulwarks.

²²And I -- I have said in my haste, ‘I have been cut off from before Thine eyes,' But Thou hast heard the voice of my supplications, In my crying unto Thee.

²³Love Jehovah, all ye His saints, Jehovah is keeping the faithful, And recompensing abundantly a proud doer.

²⁴Be strong, and He strengtheneth your heart, All ye who are waiting for Jehovah!

Psalm 32

¹By David. -- An Instruction. O the happiness of him whose transgression is forgiven, Whose sin is covered.

²O the happiness of a man, To whom Jehovah imputeth not iniquity, And in whose spirit there is no deceit.

³When I have kept silence, become old have my bones, Through my roaring all the day.

⁴When by day and by night Thy hand is heavy upon me, My moisture hath been changed Into the droughts of summer. Selah.

⁵My sin I cause Thee to know, And mine iniquity I have not covered. I have said, ‘I confess concerning My transgressions to Jehovah,' And Thou -- Thou hast taken away, The iniquity of my sin. Selah.

⁶For this doth every saintly one pray to Thee, As the time to find. Surely at an overflowing of many waters, Unto him they come not.

⁷Thou art a hiding-place for me, From distress Thou dost keep me, With songs of deliverance dost compass me. Selah.

⁸I cause thee to act wisely, And direct thee in the way that thou goest, I cause mine eye to take counsel concerning thee.

⁹Be ye not as a horse -- as a mule, Without understanding, With bridle and bit, its ornaments, to curb, Not to come near unto thee.

¹⁰Many are the pains of the wicked; As to him who is trusting in Jehovah, Kindness doth compass him.

¹¹Be glad in Jehovah, and rejoice, ye righteous, And sing, all ye upright of heart!