Psalm 26–28

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