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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

27 By David. Jehovah [is] my light and my salvation, Whom do I fear? Jehovah [is] the strength of my life, Of whom am I afraid?

² When evil doers come near to me to eat my flesh, My adversaries and mine enemies to me, They have stumbled and fallen.

³ Though a host doth encamp against me, My heart doth not fear, Though war riseth up against me, In this I [am] confident.

⁴ One [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.

⁵ For 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.

⁶ And 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.

⁷ Hear, O Jehovah, my voice -- I call, And favour me, and answer me.

⁸ To Thee said my heart `They sought my face, Thy face, O Jehovah, I seek.'

⁹ Hide 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.

¹⁰ When my father and my mother Have forsaken me, then doth Jehovah gather me.

¹¹ Shew me, O Jehovah, Thy way, And lead me in a path of uprightness, For the sake of my beholders.

¹² Give me not to the will of my adversaries, For risen against me have false witnesses, And they breathe out violence to me.

¹³ I had not believed to look on the goodness of Jehovah In the land of the living!

¹⁴ Look unto Jehovah -- be strong, And He doth strengthen thy heart, Yea, look unto Jehovah!

28 By 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.

² Hear the voice of my supplications, In my crying unto Thee, In my lifting up my hands toward thy holy oracle.

³ Draw me not with the wicked, And with workers of iniquity, Speaking peace with their neighbours, And evil in their heart.

⁴ Give 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.

⁵ For 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.

⁶ Blessed [is] Jehovah, For He hath heard the voice of my supplications.

⁷ Jehovah [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.

⁸ Jehovah [is] strength to him, Yea, the strength of the salvation of His anointed [is] He.

⁹ Save Thy people, and bless Thine inheritance, And feed them, and carry them to the age!

29 A Psalm of David. Ascribe to Jehovah, ye sons of the mighty, Ascribe to Jehovah honour and strength.

² Ascribe to Jehovah the honour of His name, Bow yourselves to Jehovah, In the beauty of holiness.

³ The voice of Jehovah [is] on the waters, The God of glory hath thundered, Jehovah [is] on many waters.

⁴ The voice of Jehovah [is] with power, The voice of Jehovah [is] with majesty,

⁵ The voice of Jehovah [is] shivering cedars, Yea, Jehovah shivers the cedars of Lebanon.

⁶ And He causeth them to skip as a calf, Lebanon and Sirion as a son of Reems,

⁷ The voice of Jehovah is hewing fiery flames,

⁸ The voice of Jehovah paineth a wilderness, Jehovah paineth the wilderness of Kadesh.

⁹ The voice of Jehovah paineth the oaks, And maketh bare the forests, And in His temple every one saith, `Glory.'

¹⁰ Jehovah on the deluge hath sat, And Jehovah sitteth king -- to the age,

¹¹ Jehovah strength to his people giveth, Jehovah blesseth His people with peace!

30 A 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.

² Jehovah my God, I have cried to Thee, And Thou dost heal me.

³ Jehovah, Thou hast brought up from Sheol my soul, Thou hast kept me alive, From going down [to] the pit.

⁴ Sing praise to Jehovah, ye His saints, And give thanks at the remembrance of His holiness,

⁵ For -- a moment [is] in His anger, Life [is] in His good-will, At even remaineth weeping, and at morn singing.

⁶ And I -- I have said in mine ease, `I am not moved -- to the age.

⁷ O Jehovah, in Thy good pleasure, Thou hast caused strength to remain for my mountain,' Thou hast hidden Thy face -- I have been troubled.

⁸ Unto 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?

¹⁰ Hear, O Jehovah, and favour me, O Jehovah, be a helper to me.'

¹¹ Thou hast turned my mourning to dancing for me, Thou hast loosed my sackcloth, And girdest me [with] joy.

¹² So that honour doth praise Thee, and is not silent, O Jehovah, my God, to the age I thank Thee!