Psalm 13–15

Psalm 13

For the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David.

¹How long, O Jehovah? wilt thou forget me for ever?

How long wilt thou hide thy face from me?

²How long shall I take counsel in my soul,

Having sorrow in my heart all the day?

How long shall mine enemy be exalted over me?

³Consider and answer me, O Jehovah my God:

Lighten mine eyes, lest I sleep the sleep of death;

⁴Lest mine enemy say, I have prevailed against him;

Lest mine adversaries rejoice when I am moved.

⁵But I have trusted in thy lovingkindness;

My heart shall rejoice in thy salvation.

⁶I will sing unto Jehovah,

Because he hath dealt bountifully with me.

Psalm 14

For the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David.

¹The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.

They are corrupt, they have done abominable works;

There is none that doeth good.

²Jehovah looked down from heaven upon the children of men,

To see if there were any that did understand,

That did seek after God.

³They are all gone aside; they are together become filthy;

There is none that doeth good, no, not one.

⁴Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge,

Who eat up my people as they eat bread,

And call not upon Jehovah?

⁵There were they in great fear;

For God is in the generation of the righteous.

⁶Ye put to shame the counsel of the poor,

Because Jehovah is his refuge.

⁷Oh that the salvation of Israel were come out of Zion!

When Jehovah bringeth back the captivity of his people,

Then shall Jacob rejoice, and Israel shall be glad.

Psalm 15

A Psalm of David.

¹Jehovah, who shall sojourn in thy tabernacle?

Who shall dwell in thy holy hill?

²He that walketh uprightly, and worketh righteousness,

And speaketh truth in his heart;

³He that slandereth not with his tongue,

Nor doeth evil to his friend,

Nor taketh up a reproach against his neighbor;

⁴In whose eyes a reprobate is despised,

But who honoreth them that fear Jehovah;

He that sweareth to his own hurt, and changeth not;

⁵He that putteth not out his money to interest,

Nor taketh reward against the innocent.

He that doeth these things shall never be moved.