1 B y David. Jehovah my light and my salvation, Whom do I fear? Jehovah the strength of my life, Of whom am I afraid?

2 W hen evil doers come near to me to eat my flesh, My adversaries and mine enemies to me, They have stumbled and fallen.

3 T hough a host doth encamp against me, My heart doth not fear, Though war riseth up against me, In this I confident.

4 O ne I asked of Jehovah -- it I seek. My dwelling in the house of Jehovah, All the days of my life, To look on the pleasantness of Jehovah, And to inquire in His temple.

5 F or He hideth me in a tabernacle in the day of evil, He hideth me in a secret place of His tent, On a rock he raiseth me up.

6 A nd now, lifted up is my head, Above my enemies -- my surrounders, And I sacrifice in His tent sacrifices of shouting, I sing, yea, I sing praise to Jehovah.

7 H ear, O Jehovah, my voice -- I call, And favour me, and answer me.

8 T o Thee said my heart `They sought my face, Thy face, O Jehovah, I seek.'

9 H ide not Thy face from me, Turn not aside in anger Thy servant, My help Thou hast been. Leave me not, nor forsake me, O God of my salvation.

10 W hen my father and my mother Have forsaken me, then doth Jehovah gather me.

11 S hew me, O Jehovah, Thy way, And lead me in a path of uprightness, For the sake of my beholders.

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

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

14 L ook unto Jehovah -- be strong, And He doth strengthen thy heart, Yea, look unto Jehovah!