The LORD Is My Salvation

1To David. Jehovah my light and my saviour; of whom shall I be afraid? Jehovah the strength of my life; from whom shall I tremble?

2In the drawing near of those doing evil to me, to eat my flesh, adversaries and enemies to me, they were weak and fell.

3If a camp shall encamp against me, my heart shall not fear: if war shall rise up against me, in this I trust.

4I asked one from Jehovah, I will seek it; I sat in the house of Jehovah all the days of my life, to look upon the sweetness of Jehovah, and to inquire in his temple.

5For he will hide me in the booth in the day of evil: he will cover me with the covering of his tent; he will lift me up upon a rock.

6And now he will lift up my head over mine enemies round about me: and I will sacrifice in his tent sacrifices of rejoicing; I will sing and I will play on the harp to Jehovah.

7Hear my voice, O Jehovah: I will call, and pity me and answer me.

8My heart said to thee, Seek ye my face; thy face, O Jehovah, I will seek.

9Thou wilt not cover thy face from me; thou wilt not turn away thy servant in anger: thou, wert my help; thou wilt not leave me and thou wilt not forsake me, my God saving me.

10For my father and my mother forsook me, and Jehovah will gather me.

11Teach me, O Jehovah, thy way, and lead me in a path of straitness for sake of those pressing me.

12Thou wilt not give me to the soul of him pressing me, for witnesses of falsehood rose up against me, and violence will blow.

13Unless I believed to look upon the goodness of Jehovah in the land of the living.

14Wait for Jehovah: be strong, and thy heart shall be strengthened: and wait for Jehovah.