Psalms 27

1 BY DAVID. YHWH [is] my light and my salvation, Whom do I fear? YHWH [is] the strength of my life, Of whom am I afraid?

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

3 Though a host encamps against me, My heart does not fear, Though war rises up against me, In this I [am] confident.

4 One [thing] I asked of YHWH—it I seek: My dwelling in the house of YHWH, All the days of my life, To look on the pleasantness of YHWH, And to inquire in His temple.

5 For He hides me in a dwelling place in the day of evil, He hides me in a secret place of His tent, He raises me up on a rock.

6 And now my head is lifted up, Above my enemies—my surrounders, And I sacrifice in His tent sacrifices of shouting, I sing, indeed, I sing praise to YHWH.

7 Hear, O YHWH, my voice—I call, And favor me, and answer me.

8 My heart said to You, “They sought my face, Your face, O YHWH, I seek.”

9 Do not hide Your face from me, Do not turn Your servant aside in anger, You have been my help. Do not leave me, nor forsake me, O God of my salvation.

10 When my father and my mother Have forsaken me, then YHWH gathers me.

11 Show me, O YHWH, Your way, And lead me in a path of uprightness, For the sake of my beholders.

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

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

14 Look to YHWH—be strong, And He strengthens your heart, Indeed, look to YHWH!