Psalm 22:30–32:11

³⁰A seed doth serve Him, It is declared of the Lord to the generation.

³¹They come and declare His righteousness, To a people that is borne, that He hath made!

Psalm 23

¹A Psalm of David. Jehovah is my shepherd, I do not lack,

²In pastures of tender grass He causeth me to lie down, By quiet waters He doth lead me.

³My soul He refresheth, He leadeth me in paths of righteousness, For His name’s sake,

⁴Also—when I walk in a valley of death-shade, I fear no evil, for Thou art with me, Thy rod and Thy staff—they comfort me.

⁵Thou arrangest before me a table, Over-against my adversaries, Thou hast anointed with oil my head, My cup is full!

⁶Only—goodness and kindness pursue me, All the days of my life, And my dwelling is in the house of Jehovah, For a length of days!

Psalm 24

¹A Psalm of David. To Jehovah is the earth and its fulness, The world and the inhabitants in it.

²For He on the seas hath founded it, And on the floods He doth establish it.

³Who goeth up into the hill of Jehovah? And who riseth up in His holy place?

⁴The clean of hands, and pure of heart, Who hath not lifted up to vanity his soul, Nor hath sworn to deceit.

⁵He beareth away a blessing from Jehovah, Righteousness from the God of his salvation.

⁶This is a generation of those seeking Him. Seeking Thy face, O Jacob! Selah.

⁷Lift up, O gates, your heads, And be lifted up, O doors age-during, And come in doth the king of glory!

⁸Who is this—‘the king of glory?’ Jehovah—strong and mighty, Jehovah, the mighty in battle.

⁹Lift up, O gates, your heads, And be lifted up, O doors age-during, And come in doth the king of glory!

¹⁰Who is He—this ‘king of glory?’ Jehovah of hosts—He is the king of glory! Selah.

Psalm 25

¹By David. Unto Thee, O Jehovah, my soul I lift up.

²My God, in Thee I have trusted, Let me not be ashamed, Let not mine enemies exult over me.

³Also let none waiting on Thee be ashamed, Let the treacherous dealers without cause be ashamed.

⁴Thy ways, O Jehovah, cause me to know, Thy paths teach Thou me.

⁵Cause me to tread in Thy truth, and teach me, For Thou art the God of my salvation, Near Thee I have waited all the day.

⁶Remember Thy mercies, O Jehovah, And Thy kindnesses, for from the age are they.

⁷Sins of my youth, and my transgressions, Do not Thou remember. According to Thy kindness be mindful of me, For Thy goodness’ sake, O Jehovah.

⁸Good and upright is Jehovah, Therefore He directeth sinners in the way.

⁹He causeth the humble to tread in judgment, And teacheth the humble His way.

¹⁰All the paths of Jehovah are kindness and truth, To those keeping His covenant, And His testimonies.

¹¹For Thy name’s sake, O Jehovah, Thou hast pardoned mine iniquity, for it is great.

¹²Who is this—the man fearing Jehovah? He directeth him in the way He doth choose.

¹³His soul in good doth remain, And his seed doth possess the land.

¹⁴The secret of Jehovah is for those fearing Him, And His covenant—to cause them to know.

¹⁵Mine eyes are continually unto Jehovah, For He bringeth out from a net my feet.

¹⁶Turn Thou unto me, and favour me, For lonely and afflicted am I.

¹⁷The distresses of my heart have enlarged themselves, From my distresses bring me out.

¹⁸See mine affliction and my misery, And bear with all my sins.

¹⁹See my enemies, for they have been many, And with violent hatred they have hated me.

²⁰Keep my soul, and deliver me, Let me not be ashamed, for I trusted in Thee.

²¹Integrity and uprightness do keep me, For I have waited on Thee.

²²Redeem Israel, O God, from all his distresses!

Psalm 26

¹By David. Judge me, O Jehovah, for I in mine integrity have walked, And in Jehovah I have trusted, I slide not.

²Try me, O Jehovah, and prove me, Purified are my reins and my heart.

³For Thy kindness is before mine eyes, And I have walked habitually in Thy truth.

⁴I have not sat with vain men, And with dissemblers I enter not.

⁵I have hated the assembly of evil doers, And with the wicked I sit not.

⁶I wash in innocency my hands, And I compass Thine altar, O Jehovah.

⁷To sound with a voice of confession, And to recount all Thy wonders.

⁸Jehovah, I have loved the habitation of Thy house, And the place of the tabernacle of Thine honour.

⁹Do not gather with sinners my soul, And with men of blood my life,

¹⁰In whose hand is a wicked device, And their right hand is full of bribes.

¹¹And I, in mine integrity I walk, Redeem me, and favour me.

¹²My foot hath stood in uprightness, In assemblies I bless Jehovah!

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…