Psalms 91

¹A Canticle Psalm. On the day of the Sabbath.

²It is good to confess to the Lord and to sing psalms to your name, O Most High:

³to announce your mercy in the morning, and your truth throughout the night,

⁴upon the ten strings, upon the psaltery, with a canticle, upon stringed instruments.

⁵For you, O Lord, have delighted me with your doings, and I will exult in the works of your hands.

⁶How great are your works, O Lord! Your thoughts have been made exceedingly deep.

⁷A foolish man will not know these things, and a senseless one will not understand:

⁸when sinners will have risen up like grass, and when all those who work iniquity will have appeared, that they shall pass away, age after age.

⁹But you, O Lord, are the Most High for all eternity.

¹⁰For behold your enemies, O Lord, for behold your enemies will perish, and all those who work iniquity will be dispersed.

¹¹And my horn will be exalted like that of the single-horned beast, and my old age will be exalted in fruitful mercy.

¹²And my eye has looked down upon my enemies, and my ear will hear of the malignant rising up against me.

¹³The just one will flourish like the palm tree. He will be multiplied like the cedar of Lebanon.

¹⁴Those planted in the house of the Lord will flourish in the courts of the house of our God.

¹⁵They will still be multiplied in a fruitful old age, and they will endure well,

¹⁶so that they may announce that the Lord our God is righteous and that there is no iniquity in him.

Psalms 91

¹He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.

²I will say of the Lord, He is my refuge and my fortress: my God; in him will I trust.

³Surely he shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler, and from the noisome pestilence.

⁴He shall cover thee with his feathers, and under his wings shalt thou trust: his truth shall be thy shield and buckler.

⁵Thou shalt not be afraid for the terror by night; nor for the arrow that flieth by day;

⁶Nor for the pestilence that walketh in darkness; nor for the destruction that wasteth at noonday.

⁷A thousand shall fall at thy side, and ten thousand at thy right hand; but it shall not come nigh thee.

⁸Only with thine eyes shalt thou behold and see the reward of the wicked.

⁹Because thou hast made the Lord, which is my refuge, even the most High, thy habitation;

¹⁰There shall no evil befall thee, neither shall any plague come nigh thy dwelling.

¹¹For he shall give his angels charge over thee, to keep thee in all thy ways.

¹²They shall bear thee up in their hands, lest thou dash thy foot against a stone.

¹³Thou shalt tread upon the lion and adder: the young lion and the dragon shalt thou trample under feet.

¹⁴Because he hath set his love upon me, therefore will I deliver him: I will set him on high, because he hath known my name.

¹⁵He shall call upon me, and I will answer him: I will be with him in trouble; I will deliver him, and honour him.

¹⁶With long life will I satisfy him, and shew him my salvation.