Psalms 34

¹For David himself. Judge thou, O Lord, them that wrong me: overthrow them that fight against me.

²Take hold of arms and shield: and rise up to help me.

³Bring out the sword, and shut up the way against them that persecute me: say to my soul: I am thy salvation.

⁴Let them be confounded and ashamed that seek after my soul. Let them be turned back and be confounded that devise evil against me.

⁵Let them become as dust before the wind: and let the angel of the Lord straiten them.

⁶Let their way become dark and slippery; and let the angel of the Lord pursue them.

⁷For without cause they have hidden their net for me unto destruction: without cause they have upbraided my soul.

⁸Let the snare which he knoweth not come upon him: and let the net which he hath hidden catch him: and into that very snare let them fall.

⁹But my soul shall rejoice in the Lord; and shall be delighted in his salvation.

¹⁰All my bones shall say: Lord, who is like to thee? Who deliverest the poor from the hand of them that are stronger than he; the needy and the poor from them that strip him.

¹¹Unjust witnesses rising up have asked me things I knew not.

¹²They repaid me evil for good: to the depriving me of my soul.

¹³But as for me, when they were troublesome to me, I was clothed with haircloth. I humbled my soul with fasting; and my prayer shall be turned into my bosom.

¹⁴As a neighbour and as an own brother, so did I please: as one mourning and sorrowful so was I humbled.

¹⁵But they rejoiced against me, and came together: scourges were gathered together upon me, and I knew not.

¹⁶They were separated, and repented not: they tempted me, they scoffed at me with scorn: they gnashed upon me with their teeth.

¹⁷Lord, when wilt thou look upon me? rescue thou my soul from their malice: my only one from the lions.

¹⁸I will give thanks to thee in a great church; I will praise thee in a strong people.

¹⁹Let not them that are my enemies wrongfully rejoice over me: who have hated me without cause, and wink with the eyes.

²⁰For they spoke indeed peaceably to me; and speaking in the anger of the earth they devised guile.

²¹And they opened their mouth wide against me; they said: Well done, well done, our eyes have seen it.

²²Thou hast seen, O Lord, be not thou silent: O Lord, depart not from me.

²³Arise, and be attentive to my judgment: to my cause, my God, and my Lord.

²⁴Judge me, O Lord my God according to thy justice, and let them not rejoice over me.

²⁵Let them not say in their hearts: It is well, it is well, to our mind: neither let them say: We have swallowed him up.

²⁶Let them blush: and be ashamed together, who rejoice at my evils. Let them be clothed with confusion and shame, who speak great things against me.

²⁷Let them rejoice and be glad, who are well pleased with my justice, and let them say always: The Lord be magnified, who delights in the peace of his servant.

²⁸And my tongue shall meditate thy justice, thy praise all the day long.

Psalms 34

¹I will bless the Lord at all times: his praise shall continually be in my mouth.

²My soul shall make her boast in the Lord: the humble shall hear thereof, and be glad.

³O magnify the Lord with me, and let us exalt his name together.

⁴I sought the Lord, and he heard me, and delivered me from all my fears.

⁵They looked unto him, and were lightened: and their faces were not ashamed.

⁶This poor man cried, and the Lord heard him, and saved him out of all his troubles.

⁷The angel of the Lord encampeth round about them that fear him, and delivereth them.

⁸O taste and see that the Lord is good: blessed is the man that trusteth in him.

⁹O fear the Lord, ye his saints: for there is no want to them that fear him.

¹⁰The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger: but they that seek the Lord shall not want any good thing.

¹¹Come, ye children, hearken unto me: I will teach you the fear of the Lord.

¹²What man is he that desireth life, and loveth many days, that he may see good?

¹³Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile.

¹⁴Depart from evil, and do good; seek peace, and pursue it.

¹⁵The eyes of the Lord are upon the righteous, and his ears are open unto their cry.

¹⁶The face of the Lord is against them that do evil, to cut off the remembrance of them from the earth.

¹⁷The righteous cry, and the Lord heareth, and delivereth them out of all their troubles.

¹⁸The Lord is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart; and saveth such as be of a contrite spirit.

¹⁹Many are the afflictions of the righteous: but the Lord delivereth him out of them all.

²⁰He keepeth all his bones: not one of them is broken.

²¹Evil shall slay the wicked: and they that hate the righteous shall be desolate.

²²The Lord redeemeth the soul of his servants: and none of them that trust in him shall be desolate.