1In 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!
By David. -- An Instruction.1O 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!
1Sing, ye righteous, in Jehovah, For upright ones praise is comely.2Give ye thanks to Jehovah with a harp, With psaltery of ten strings sing praise to Him,3Sing ye to Him a new song, Play skilfully with shouting.4For upright is the word of Jehovah, And all His work is in faithfulness.5Loving righteousness and judgment, Of the kindness of Jehovah is the earth full.6By the word of Jehovah The heavens have been made, And by the breath of His mouth all their host.7Gathering as a heap the waters of the sea, Putting in treasuries the depths.8Afraid of Jehovah are all the earth, Of Him are all the inhabitants of the world afraid.9For He hath said, and it is, He hath commanded, and it standeth.10Jehovah made void the counsel of nations, He disallowed the thoughts of the peoples.11The counsel of Jehovah to the age standeth, The thoughts of His heart to all generations.12O the happiness of the nation whose God is Jehovah, Of the people He did choose, For an inheritance to Him.13From the heavens hath Jehovah looked, He hath seen all the sons of men.14From the fixed place of His dwelling, He looked unto all inhabitants of the earth;15Who is forming their hearts together, Who is attending unto all their works.16The king is not saved by the multitude of a force. A mighty man is not delivered, By abundance of power.17A false thing is the horse for safety, And by the abundance of his strength He doth not deliver.18Lo, the eye of Jehovah is to those fearing Him, To those waiting for His kindness,19To deliver from death their soul, And to keep them alive in famine.20Our soul hath waited for Jehovah, Our help and our shield is He,21For in Him doth our heart rejoice, For in His holy name we have trusted.22Let Thy kindness, O Jehovah, be upon us, As we have waited for Thee!