Psalm 34:5-35:11

English Standard Version

⁵Those who look to him are ^(A)radiant,
    and their faces shall never be ashamed.
⁶^(B)This poor man cried, and the Lord heard him
    and ^(C)saved him out of all his troubles.
⁷^(D)The angel of the Lord ^(E)encamps
    around those who fear him, and delivers them.

⁸Oh, ^(F)taste and see that ^(G)the Lord is good!
    ^(H)Blessed is the man who takes refuge in him!
⁹Oh, fear the Lord, you his saints,
    for those who fear him have no lack!
¹⁰^(I)The young lions suffer want and hunger;
    but those who ^(J)seek the Lord lack no good thing.

¹¹^(K)Come, O children, listen to me;
    ^(L)I will teach you the fear of the Lord.
¹²^(M)What man is there who desires life
    and loves many days, that he may ^(N)see good?
¹³^(O)Keep your tongue from evil
    and your lips from ^(P)speaking deceit.
¹⁴^(Q)Turn away from evil and do good;
    seek peace and ^(R)pursue it.

¹⁵^(S)The eyes of the Lord are toward the righteous
    ^(T)and his ears toward their cry.
¹⁶^(U)The face of the Lord is against those who do evil,
    to ^(V)cut off the memory of them from the earth.
¹⁷^(W)When the righteous cry for help, the Lord hears
    and delivers them out of all their troubles.
¹⁸The Lord is near to ^(X)the brokenhearted
    and saves ^(Y)the crushed in spirit.

¹⁹^(Z)Many are the afflictions of the righteous,
    ^(AA)but the Lord delivers him out of them all.
²⁰He keeps all his bones;
    ^(AB)not one of them is broken.
²¹^(AC)Affliction will slay the wicked,
    and those who hate the righteous will be condemned.
²²The Lord ^(AD)redeems the life of his servants;
    none of those who take refuge in him will be ^(AE)condemned.

Great Is the Lord

Of David.

35 Contend, O Lord, with those who ^(AF)contend with me;
    ^(AG)fight against those who fight against me!
²Take hold of ^(AH)shield and buckler
    and rise for my help!
³Draw the spear and javelin^[a]
    against my pursuers!
Say to my soul,
    “I am your salvation!”

⁴^(AI)Let them be ^(AJ)put to shame and dishonor
    who seek after my life!
Let them be ^(AK)turned back and disappointed
    who devise evil against me!
⁵Let them be like ^(AL)chaff before the wind,
    with the angel of the Lord driving them away!
⁶Let their way be dark and ^(AM)slippery,
    with the angel of the Lord pursuing them!

⁷For ^(AN)without cause ^(AO)they hid their net for me;
without cause they dug ^(AP)a pit for my life.^[b]
⁸Let ^(AQ)destruction come upon him ^(AR)when he does not know it!
And let the net that he hid ensnare him;
let him fall into it—to his destruction!

⁹Then my soul will rejoice in the Lord,
    ^(AS)exulting in his salvation.
¹⁰All my ^(AT)bones shall say,
    “O Lord, ^(AU)who is like you,
delivering the poor
    from him who is too strong for him,
    the poor and needy from him who robs him?”

¹¹^(AV)Malicious^[c] witnesses rise up;
they ask me of things that I do not know.

Footnotes

Psalm 35:3 Or and close the way
Psalm 35:7 The word pit is transposed from the preceding line; Hebrew For without cause they hid the pit of their net for me; without cause they dug for my life
Psalm 35:11 Or Violent