Psalms 27-29

Psalm 27

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

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

³Though an host should encamp against me, my heart shall not fear: though war should rise against me, even then will I be confident.

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

⁵For in the day of trouble he shall keep me secretly in his pavilion: in the covert of his tabernacle shall he hide me; he shall lift me up upon a rock.

⁶And now shall mine head be lifted up above mine enemies round about me; and I will offer in his tabernacle sacrifices of joy; I will sing, yea, I will sing praises unto the LORD.

⁷Hear, O LORD, when I cry with my voice: have mercy also upon me, and answer me.

⁸When thou saidst, Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy face, LORD, 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 my father and my mother have forsaken me, but the LORD will take me up.

¹¹Teach me thy way, O LORD; and lead me in a plain path, because of mine enemies.

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

¹³I had fainted, unless I had believed to see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living.

¹⁴Wait on the LORD: be strong, and let thine heart take courage; yea, wait thou on the LORD.

Psalm 28

¹A Psalm of David. Unto thee, O LORD, will I call; my rock, be not thou deaf unto me: lest, if thou be silent unto 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 thy holy oracle.

³Draw me not away with the wicked, and with the workers of iniquity; which speak peace with their neighbours, but mischief is in their hearts.

⁴Give them according to their work, and according to the wickedness of their doings: give them after the operation of their hands; render to them their desert.

⁵Because they regard not the works of the LORD, nor the operation of his hands, he shall break them down and not build them up.

⁶Blessed be the LORD, because he hath heard the voice of my supplications.

⁷The LORD is my strength and my shield; my heart hath trusted in him, and I am helped: therefore my heart greatly rejoiceth; and with my song will praise him.

⁸The LORD is their strength, and he is a strong hold of salvation to his anointed.

⁹Save thy people, and bless thine inheritance: feed them also, and bear them up for ever.

Psalm 29

¹A Psalm of David. Give unto the LORD, O ye sons of the mighty, give unto the LORD glory and strength.

²Give unto the LORD the glory due unto his name; worship the LORD in the beauty of holiness.

³The voice of the LORD is upon the waters: the God of glory thundereth, even the LORD upon many waters.

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

⁵The voice of the LORD breaketh the cedars; yea, the LORD breaketh in pieces the cedars of Lebanon.

⁶He maketh them also to skip like a calf; Lebanon and Sirion like a young wild-ox.

⁷The voice of the LORD cleaveth the flames of fire.

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

⁹The voice of the LORD maketh the hinds to calve, and strippeth the forests bare: and in his temple every thing saith, Glory.

¹⁰The LORD sat as king at the Flood; yea, the LORD sitteth as king for ever.

¹¹The LORD will give strength unto his people; the LORD will bless his people with peace.