Psalms 27-29

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!