Psalm 25–27

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