Psalms 26:1-30:12 (27) A Psalm of David, before he was anointed. The Lord is my light and my Saviour; whom shall I fear? the Lord is the defender of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?

LXX2012⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹ (27) [A Psalm] of David, before he was anointed. The Lord is my light and my Saviour; whom shall I fear? the Lord is the defender of my life; of whom shall I be afraid? ² When evil-doers drew near against me to eat up my flesh, my persecutors and mine enemies, they fainted and fell. ³ Though an army should set itself in array against me, my heart shall not be afraid: though war should rise up against me, in this am I confident. ⁴ One thing have I asked of the Lord, this will I earnestly seek: that I should dwell in the house of the Lord, all the days of my life, that I should behold the fair beauty of the Lord, and survey his temple. ⁵ For in the day of mine afflictions he hid me in his tabernacle: he sheltered me in the secret of his tabernacle; he set me up on a rock. ⁶ And now, behold, he has lifted up mine head over mine enemies: I went round and offered in his tabernacle the sacrifice of joy; I will sing even sing psalms to the Lord. ⁷ Hear, O Lord, my voice which I have uttered aloud: pity me, and listen to me. ⁸ My heart said to you, I have diligently sought your face: your face, O Lord, I will seek. ⁹ Turn not your face away from me, turn not you away from your servant in anger: be you my helper, forsake me not; and, O God my Saviour, overlook me not. ¹⁰ For my father and my mother have forsaken me, but the Lord has taken me to himself. ¹¹ Teach me, O Lord, in your way, and guide me in a right path, because of mine enemies. ¹² Deliver me not over to the desire of them that afflict me; for unjust witnesses have risen up against me, and injustice has lied within herself. ¹³ I believe that I shall see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living. ¹⁴ Wait on the Lord: be of good courage, and let your heart be strengthened: yes wait on the Lord. ²⁷ ¹ (28) [A Psalm] of David. To you, O Lord, have I cried; my God, be not silent toward me: lest you be silent toward me, and so I should be likened to them that go down to the pit. ² Listen to the voice of my supplication, when I pray to you, when I lift up my hands toward your holy temple. ³ Draw not away my soul with sinners, and destroy me not with the workers of iniquity, who speak peace with their neighbors, but evils are in their hearts. ⁴ Give them according to their works, and according to the wickedness of their devices: give them according to the works of their hands; render their recompense to them. ⁵ Because they have not attended to the works of the Lord, even to the works of his hands, you shall pull them down, and shall not build them up. ⁶ Blessed be the Lord, for he has listened to the voice of my petition. ⁷ The Lord is my helper and my defender; my heart has hoped in him, and I am helped: my flesh has revived, and willingly will I give praise to him. ⁸ The Lord is the strength of his people, and the saving defender of his anointed. ⁹ Save your people, and bless your inheritance: and take care of them, and lift them up for ever. ²⁸ ¹ (29) A Psalm of David [on the occasion] of the solemn assembly of the Tabernacle. Bring to the Lord, you⌃ sons of God, bring to the Lord young rams; bring to the Lord glory and honor. ² Bring to the Lord glory, [due] to his name; worship the lord in his holy court. ³ The voice of the Lord is upon the waters: the God of glory has thundered: the Lord is upon many waters. ⁴ The voice of the Lord is mighty; the voice of the Lord is full of majesty. ⁵ [There is] the voice of the Lord who breaks the cedars; the Lord will break the cedars of Libanus. ⁶ And he will beat them small, [even] Libanus itself, like a calf; and the beloved one is as a young unicorn. ⁷ [There is] a voice of the Lord who divides a flame of fire. ⁸ A voice of the Lord who shakes the wilderness; the Lord will shake the wilderness of Cades. ⁹ The voice of the Lord strengthens the hinds, and will uncover the thickets: and in his temple every one speaks [of his] glory. ¹⁰ The Lord will dwell on the waterflood: and the Lord will sit a king for ever. ¹¹ The Lord will give strength to his people; the Lord will bless his people with peace. ²⁹ ¹ (30) For the end, a Psalm and Song at the dedication of the house of David. I will exalt you, O Lord; for you have lifted me up, and not caused mine enemies to rejoice over me. ² O Lord my God, I cried to you, and you did heal me. ³ O Lord, you have brought up my soul from Hades, you have delivered me from [among] them that go down to the pit. ⁴ Sing to the Lord, you⌃ his saints, and give thanks for the remembrance of his holiness. ⁵ For anger is in his wrath, but life in his favor: weeping shall wait for the evening, but joy shall be in the morning. ⁶ And I said in my prosperity, I shall never be moved. ⁷ O Lord, in your good pleasure you did add strength to my beauty: but you did turn away your face, and I was troubled. ⁸ To you, O Lord, will I cry; and to my God will I make supplication. ⁹ What profit is there in my blood, when I go down to destruction? Shall the dust give praise to you? or shall it declare your truth? ¹⁰ The Lord heard, and had compassion upon me; the Lord is become my helper. ¹¹ You have turned my mourning into joy for me: you have tore off my sackcloth, and girded me with gladness; ¹² that my glory may sing praise to you, and I may not be pierced [with sorrow]. O Lord my God, I will give thanks to you for ever. ³⁰ ¹ (31) For the end, a Psalm of David, [an utterance] of extreme fear. O Lord, I have hoped in you; let me never be ashamed: deliver me in your righteousness and rescue me. ² Incline your ear to me; make haste to rescue me: be you to me for a protecting God, and for a house of refuge to save me. ³ For you are my strength and my refuge; and you shall guide me for your name's sake, and maintain me. ⁴ You shall bring me out of the snare which they have hidden for me; for you, O Lord, are my defender. ⁵ Into your hands I will commit my spirit: you have redeemed me, O Lord God of truth. ⁶ You has hated them that idly persist in vanities: but I have hoped in the Lord. ⁷ I will exult and be glad in your mercy: for you have looked upon mine affliction; you have saved my soul from distresses. ⁸ And you have not shut me up into the hands of the enemy: you have set my feet in a wide place. ⁹ Pity me, O Lord, for I am afflicted: my eye is troubled with indignation, my soul and by belly. ¹⁰ For my life is spent with grief, and my years with groanings: my strength has been weakened through poverty, and my bones are troubled. ¹¹ I became a reproach among all mine enemies, but exceedingly so to my neighbors, and a fear to mine acquaintance: they that saw me without fled from me. ¹² I have been forgotten as a dead man out of mind: I am become as a broken vessel.