Psalms 25:1-36:1 {A Psalm of David.} Unto thee, Jehovah, do I lift up my soul.

Darby⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹ {[A Psalm] of David.} Unto thee, Jehovah, do I lift up my soul. ² My God, I confide in thee; let me not be ashamed, let not mine enemies triumph over me. ³ Yea, none that wait on thee shall be ashamed: they shall be ashamed that deal treacherously without cause. ⁴ Make me to know thy ways, O Jehovah; teach me thy paths. ⁵ Make me to walk in thy truth, and teach me: for thou art the God of my salvation; on thee do I wait all the day. ⁶ Remember, Jehovah, thy tender mercies and thy loving-kindnesses; for they are from everlasting. ⁷ Remember not the sins of my youth, nor my transgressions; according to thy loving-kindness remember thou me, for thy goodness` sake, Jehovah. ⁸ Good and upright is Jehovah; therefore will he instruct sinners in the way: ⁹ The meek will he guide in judgment, and the meek will he teach his way. ¹⁰ All the paths of Jehovah are loving-kindness and truth for such as keep his covenant and his testimonies. ¹¹ For thy name`s sake, O Jehovah, thou wilt indeed pardon mine iniquity; for it is great. ¹² What man is he that feareth Jehovah? him will he instruct in the way [that] he should choose. ¹³ His soul shall dwell in prosperity, and his seed shall inherit the earth. ¹⁴ The secret of Jehovah is with them that fear him, that he may make known his covenant to them. ¹⁵ Mine eyes are ever toward Jehovah; for he will bring my feet out of the net. ¹⁶ Turn toward me, and be gracious unto me; for I am solitary and afflicted. ¹⁷ The troubles of my heart are increased: bring me out of my distresses; ¹⁸ Consider mine affliction and my travail, and forgive all my sins. ¹⁹ Consider mine enemies, for they are many, and they hate me [with] cruel hatred. ²⁰ Keep my soul, and deliver me: let me not be ashamed; for I trust in thee. ²¹ Let integrity and uprightness preserve me; for I wait on thee. ²² Redeem Israel, O God, out of all his troubles. ²⁶ ¹ {[A Psalm] of David.} Judge me, O Jehovah, for I have walked in mine integrity, and I have confided in Jehovah: I shall not slip. ² Prove me, Jehovah, and test me; try my reins and my heart: ³ For thy loving-kindness is before mine eyes, and I have walked in thy truth. ⁴ I have not sat with vain persons, neither have I gone in with dissemblers; ⁵ I have hated the congregation of evil-doers, and I have not sat with the wicked. ⁶ I will wash my hands in innocency, and will encompass thine altar, O Jehovah, ⁷ That I may cause the voice of thanksgiving to be heard, and declare all thy marvellous works. ⁸ Jehovah, I have loved the habitation of thy house, and the place where thy glory dwelleth. ⁹ Gather not my soul with sinners, nor my life with men of blood; ¹⁰ In whose hands are evil devices, and their right hand is full of bribes. ¹¹ But as for me, I will walk in mine integrity. Redeem me, and be gracious unto me. ¹² My foot standeth in an even place; in the congregations will I bless Jehovah. ²⁷ ¹ {[A Psalm] of David.} Jehovah is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? Jehovah is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid? ² When evil-doers, mine adversaries and mine enemies, came upon me to eat up my flesh, they stumbled and fell. ³ If a host encamp against me, my heart shall not fear; if war rise against me, in this will I be confident. ⁴ One [thing] have I asked of Jehovah, that will I seek after: that I may dwell in the house of Jehovah all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of Jehovah, and to inquire [of him] in his temple. ⁵ For in the day of evil he will hide me in his pavilion; in the secret of his tent will he keep me concealed: he will set me high upon a rock. ⁶ And now shall my head be lifted up above mine enemies round about me; and I will offer in his tent sacrifices of shouts of joy: I will sing, yea, I will sing psalms unto Jehovah. ⁷ Hear, Jehovah; with my voice do I call; be gracious unto me, and answer me. ⁸ My heart said for thee, Seek ye my face. Thy face, O Jehovah, will I seek. ⁹ Hide not thy face from me; put not thy servant away in anger: thou hast been my help; cast me not off, neither forsake me, O God of my salvation. ¹⁰ For had my father and my mother forsaken me, then had Jehovah taken me up. ¹¹ Teach me thy way, Jehovah, and lead me in an even path, because of mine enemies. ¹² Deliver me not over to the will of mine adversaries; for false witnesses are risen up against me, and such as breathe out violence. ¹³ Unless I had believed to see the goodness of Jehovah in the land of the living ...! ¹⁴ Wait for Jehovah; be strong and let thy heart take courage: yea, wait for Jehovah. ²⁸ ¹ {[A Psalm] of David.} Unto thee, Jehovah, do I call; my rock, be not silent unto me, lest, [if] thou keep silence toward me, I become like them that go down into the pit. ² Hear the voice of my supplications, when I cry unto thee, when I lift up my hands toward the oracle of thy holiness. ³ Draw me not away with the wicked, and with the workers of iniquity, who speak peace to their neighbours, and mischief is in their heart. ⁴ Give them according to their doing, and according to the wickedness of their deeds; give them after the work of their hands, render to them their desert. ⁵ For they regard not the deeds of Jehovah, nor the work of his hands: he will destroy them, and not build them up. ⁶ Blessed be Jehovah, for he hath heard the voice of my supplications. ⁷ Jehovah is my strength and my shield; my heart confided in him, and I was helped: therefore my heart exulteth, and with my song will I praise him. ⁸ Jehovah is their strength; and he is the stronghold of salvation to his anointed one. ⁹ Save thy people, and bless thine inheritance; and feed them, and lift them up for ever. ²⁹ ¹ {A Psalm of David.} Give unto Jehovah, ye sons of the mighty ones, give unto Jehovah glory and strength; ² Give unto Jehovah the glory of his name; worship Jehovah in holy splendour. ³ The voice of Jehovah is upon the waters: the ?God of glory thundereth, -- Jehovah upon great waters. ⁴ The voice of Jehovah is powerful; the voice of Jehovah is full of majesty. ⁵ The voice of Jehovah breaketh cedars; yea, Jehovah breaketh the cedars of Lebanon: ⁶ And he maketh them to skip like a calf, Lebanon and Sirion like a young buffalo. ⁷ The voice of Jehovah cleaveth out flames of fire. ⁸ The voice of Jehovah shaketh the wilderness; Jehovah shaketh the wilderness of Kadesh. ⁹ The voice of Jehovah maketh the hinds to calve, and layeth bare the forests; and in his temple doth every one say, Glory! ¹⁰ Jehovah sitteth upon the flood; yea, Jehovah sitteth as king for ever. ¹¹ Jehovah will give strength unto his people; Jehovah will bless his people with peace. ³⁰ ¹ {A Psalm of David: dedication-song of the house.} I will extol thee, Jehovah; for thou hast delivered me, and hast not made mine enemies to rejoice over me. ² Jehovah my God, I cried unto thee, and thou hast healed me. ³ Jehovah, thou hast brought up my soul from Sheol, thou hast quickened me from among those that go down to the pit. ⁴ Sing psalms unto Jehovah, ye saints of his, and give thanks in remembrance of his holiness. ⁵ For a moment [is passed] in his anger, a life in his favour; at even weeping cometh for the night, and at morn there is rejoicing. ⁶ As for me, I said in my prosperity, I shall never be moved. ⁷ Jehovah, by thy favour thou hadst made my mountain to stand strong: thou didst hide thy face; I was troubled. ⁸ I called to thee, Jehovah, and unto the Lord did I make supplication: ⁹ What profit is there in my blood, in my going down to the pit? shall the dust praise thee? shall it declare thy truth? ¹⁰ Hear, O Jehovah, and be gracious unto me; Jehovah, be my helper. ¹¹ Thou hast turned for me my mourning into dancing; thou hast loosed my sackcloth, and girded me with gladness; ¹² That [my] glory may sing psalms of thee, and not be silent. Jehovah my God, I will praise thee for ever. ³¹ ¹ {To the chief Musician. A Psalm of David.} In thee, Jehovah, do I trust; let me never be ashamed: deliver me in thy righteousness. ² Incline thine ear to me, deliver me speedily; be a strong rock to me, a house of defence to save me. ³ For thou art my rock and my fortress; and, for thy name`s sake, thou wilt lead me and guide me. ⁴ Draw me out of the net that they have hidden for me; for thou art my strength. ⁵ Into thy hand I commit my spirit: thou hast redeemed me, Jehovah, [thou] ?God of truth. ⁶ I have hated them that observe lying vanities; and as for me, I have confided in Jehovah. ⁷ I will be glad and rejoice in thy loving-kindness, for thou hast seen mine affliction; thou hast known the troubles of my soul, ⁸ And hast not shut me up into the hand of the enemy: thou hast set my feet in a large place. ⁹ Be gracious unto me, Jehovah, for I am in trouble: mine eye wasteth away with vexation, my soul and my belly. ¹⁰ For my life is spent with sorrow, and my years with sighing; my strength faileth through mine iniquity, and my bones are wasted. ¹¹ More than to all mine oppressors, I am become exceedingly a reproach, even to my neighbours, and a fear to mine acquaintance: they that see me without flee from me. ¹² I am forgotten in [their] heart as a dead man; I am become like a broken vessel. ¹³ For I have heard the slander of many -- terror on every side -- when they take counsel together against me: they plot to take away my life. ¹⁴ But I confided in thee, Jehovah; I said, thou art my God. ¹⁵ My times are in thy hand: deliver me from the hand of mine enemies, and from my persecutors. ¹⁶ Make thy face to shine upon thy servant; save me in thy loving-kindness. ¹⁷ Jehovah, let me not be ashamed; for I have called upon thee: let the wicked be ashamed, let them be silent in Sheol. ¹⁸ Let the lying lips become dumb, which speak insolently against the righteous in pride and contempt. ¹⁹ [Oh] how great is thy goodness, which thou hast laid up for them that fear thee, [which] thou hast wrought for them that trust in thee, before the sons of men! ²⁰ Thou keepest them concealed in the secret of thy presence from the conspiracies of man; thou hidest them in a pavilion from the strife of tongues. ²¹ Blessed be Jehovah; for he hath shewn me wondrously his loving-kindness in a strong city. ²² As for me, I said in my haste, I am cut off from before thine eyes; nevertheless thou heardest the voice of my supplications when I cried unto thee. ²³ Love Jehovah, all ye his saints. Jehovah preserveth the faithful, and plentifully requiteth the proud doer. ²⁴ Be strong, and let your heart take courage, all ye that hope in Jehovah. ³² ¹ {Of David. Instruction.} Blessed is he [whose] transgression is forgiven, [whose] sin is covered! ² Blessed is the man unto whom Jehovah reckoneth not iniquity, and in whose spirit there is no guile! ³ When I kept silence, my bones waxed old, through my groaning all the day long. ⁴ For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me; my moisture was turned into the drought of summer. Selah. ⁵ I acknowledged my sin unto thee, and mine iniquity I covered not; I said, I will confess my transgressions unto Jehovah, and *thou* forgavest the iniquity of my sin. Selah. ⁶ For this shall every one that is godly pray unto thee at a time when thou mayest be found: surely in the floods of great waters they will not reach him. ⁷ Thou art a hiding-place for me; thou preservest me from trouble; thou dost encompass me with songs of deliverance. Selah. ⁸ I will instruct thee and teach thee the way in which thou shalt go; I will counsel [thee] with mine eye upon thee. ⁹ Be ye not as a horse, as a mule, which have no understanding: whose trappings must be bit and bridle, for restraint, or they will not come unto thee. ¹⁰ Many sorrows hath the wicked; but he that confideth in Jehovah, loving-kindness shall encompass him. ¹¹ Rejoice in Jehovah, and be glad, ye righteous; and shout for joy, all ye upright in heart. ³³ ¹ Exult, ye righteous, in Jehovah: praise is comely for the upright. ² Give thanks unto Jehovah with the harp; sing psalms unto him with the ten-stringed lute. ³ Sing unto him a new song; play skilfully with a loud sound. ⁴ For the word of Jehovah is right, and all his work is in faithfulness. ⁵ He loveth righteousness and judgment: the earth is full of the loving-kindness of Jehovah. ⁶ By the word of Jehovah were the heavens made, and all the host of them by the breath of his mouth. ⁷ He gathereth the waters of the sea together as a heap; he layeth up the deeps in storehouses. ⁸ Let all the earth fear Jehovah; let all the inhabitants of the world stand in awe of him. ⁹ For *he* spoke, and it was [done]; *he* commanded, and it stood fast. ¹⁰ Jehovah frustrateth the counsel of the nations; he maketh the thoughts of the peoples of none effect. ¹¹ The counsel of Jehovah standeth for ever, the thoughts of his heart from generation to generation. ¹² Blessed is the nation whose God is Jehovah, the people that he hath chosen for his inheritance! ¹³ Jehovah looketh from the heavens; he beholdeth all the sons of men: ¹⁴ From the place of his habitation he looketh forth upon all the inhabitants of the earth; ¹⁵ He who fashioneth the hearts of them all, who considereth all their works. ¹⁶ The king is not saved by the multitude of [his] forces; a mighty man is not delivered by much strength. ¹⁷ The horse is a vain thing for safety; neither doth he deliver by his great power. ¹⁸ Behold, the eye of Jehovah is upon them that fear him, upon them that hope in his loving-kindness, ¹⁹ To deliver their soul from death, and to keep them alive in famine. ²⁰ Our soul waiteth for Jehovah: he is our help and our shield. ²¹ For in him shall our heart rejoice, because we have confided in his holy name. ²² Let thy loving-kindness, O Jehovah, be upon us, according as we have hoped in thee. ³⁴ ¹ {[A Psalm] of David; when he changed his behaviour before Abimelech, who drove him away, and he departed.} I will bless Jehovah at all times; his praise shall continually be in my mouth. ² My soul shall make its boast in Jehovah: the meek shall hear, and rejoice. ³ Magnify Jehovah with me, and let us exalt his name together. ⁴ I sought Jehovah, and he answered me, and delivered me from all my fears. ⁵ They looked unto him, and were enlightened, and their faces were not confounded. ⁶ This afflicted one called, and Jehovah heard [him], and saved him out of all his troubles. ⁷ The angel of Jehovah encampeth round about them that fear him, and delivereth them. ⁸ Taste and see that Jehovah is good: blessed is the man that trusteth in him! ⁹ Fear Jehovah, ye his saints; for there is no want to them that fear him. ¹⁰ The young lions are in need and suffer hunger; but they that seek Jehovah shall not want any good. ¹¹ Come, ye sons, hearken unto me: I will teach you the fear of Jehovah. ¹² What man is he that desireth life, [and] loveth days, that he may see good? ¹³ Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile; ¹⁴ Depart from evil, and do good; seek peace, and pursue it. ¹⁵ The eyes of Jehovah are upon the righteous, and his ears are toward their cry; ¹⁶ The face of Jehovah is against them that do evil, to cut off the remembrance of them from the earth: ¹⁷ [The righteous] cry, and Jehovah heareth, and delivereth them out of all their troubles. ¹⁸ Jehovah is nigh to those that are of a broken heart, and saveth them that are of a contrite spirit. ¹⁹ Many are the adversities of the righteous, but Jehovah delivereth him out of them all: ²⁰ He keepeth all his bones; not one of them is broken. ²¹ Evil shall destroy the wicked; and they that hate the righteous shall bear their guilt. ²² Jehovah redeemeth the soul of his servants; and none of them that trust in him shall bear guilt. ³⁵ ¹ {[A Psalm] of David.} Strive, O Jehovah, with them that strive with me; fight against them that fight against me: ² Take hold of shield and buckler, and stand up for my help; ³ And draw out the spear, and stop [the way] against my pursuers: say unto my soul, I am thy salvation. ⁴ Let them be put to shame and confounded that seek after my life; let them be turned backward and brought to confusion that devise my hurt: ⁵ Let them be as chaff before the wind, and let the angel of Jehovah drive [them] away; ⁶ Let their way be dark and slippery, and let the angel of Jehovah pursue them. ⁷ For without cause have they hidden for me their net [in] a pit; without cause they have digged [it] for my soul. ⁸ Let destruction come upon him unawares, and let his net which he hath hidden catch himself: for destruction let him fall therein. ⁹ And my soul shall be joyful in Jehovah; it shall rejoice in his salvation. ¹⁰ All my bones shall say, Jehovah, who is like unto thee, who deliverest the afflicted from one stronger than he, yea, the afflicted and the needy from him that spoileth him! ¹¹ Unrighteous witnesses rise up; they lay to my charge things which I know not. ¹² They reward me evil for good, [to] the bereavement of my soul. ¹³ But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth; I chastened my soul with fasting, and my prayer returned into mine own bosom: ¹⁴ I behaved myself as though [he had been] a friend, a brother to me; I bowed down in sadness, as one that mourneth [for] a mother. ¹⁵ But at my halting they rejoiced, and gathered together: the slanderers gathered themselves together against me, and I knew [it] not; they did tear [me], and ceased not: ¹⁶ With profane jesters for bread, they have gnashed their teeth against me. ¹⁷ Lord, how long wilt thou look on? Rescue my soul from their destructions, my only one from the young lions. ¹⁸ I will give thee thanks in the great congregation; I will praise thee among much people. ¹⁹ Let not them that are wrongfully mine enemies rejoice over me; let them not wink with the eye that hate me without cause. ²⁰ For they speak not peace; and they devise deceitful words against the quiet in the land. ²¹ And they opened their mouth wide against me; they said, Aha! aha! our eye hath seen [it]. ²² Thou hast seen [it], Jehovah: keep not silence; O Lord, be not far from me. ²³ Stir up thyself, and awake for my right, for my cause, my God and Lord! ²⁴ Judge me, Jehovah my God, according to thy righteousness, and let them not rejoice over me. ²⁵ Let them not say in their heart, Aha! so would we have it. Let them not say, We have swallowed him up. ²⁶ Let them be ashamed and brought to confusion together that rejoice at mine adversity; let them be clothed with shame and dishonour that magnify themselves against me. ²⁷ Let them exult and rejoice that delight in my righteousness; and let them say continually, Jehovah be magnified, who delighteth in the prosperity of his servant. ²⁸ And my tongue shall talk of thy righteousness, [and] of thy praise, all the day. ³⁶ ¹ {To the chief Musician. [A Psalm] of the servant of Jehovah; of David.} The transgression of the wicked uttereth within my heart, There is no fear of God before his eyes.