By David.

• ¹Yahweh is my light and my salvation.
• Whom shall I fear?

• Yahweh is the strength of my life.
• Of whom shall I be afraid?

• ²When evildoers came at me to eat up my flesh,
• even my adversaries and my foes, they stumbled and fell.

• ³Though an army should encamp against me,
• my heart shall not fear.

• Though war should rise against me,
• even then I will be confident.

• ⁴One thing I have asked of Yahweh, that I will seek after,
• that I may dwell in the house of Yahweh all the days of my life,
• to see Yahweh’s beauty,
• and to inquire in his temple.

• ⁵For in the day of trouble he will keep me secretly in his pavilion.
• In the covert of his tabernacle he will hide me.
• He will lift me up on a rock.

• ⁶Now my head will be lifted up above my enemies around me.

• I will offer sacrifices of joy in his tent.
• I will sing, yes, I will sing praises to Yahweh.

• ⁷Hear, Yahweh, when I cry with my voice.
• Have mercy also on me, and answer me.

• ⁸When you said, “Seek my face,”
• my heart said to you, “I will seek your face, Yahweh.”

• ⁹Don’t hide your face from me.
• Don’t put your servant away in anger.

• You have been my help.
• Don’t abandon me,
• neither forsake me, God of my salvation.

• ¹⁰When my father and my mother forsake me,
• then Yahweh will take me up.

• ¹¹Teach me your way, Yahweh.
• Lead me in a straight path, because of my enemies.

• ¹²Don’t deliver me over to the desire of my adversaries,
• for false witnesses have risen up against me,
• such as breathe out cruelty.

• ¹³I am still confident of this:
• I will see the goodness of Yahweh in the land of the living.

• ¹⁴Wait for Yahweh.
• Be strong, and let your heart take courage.

• Yes, wait for Yahweh.