11 I have not covered thy righteousness within my heart, "I have declared thy faithfulness and thy salvation; "I have not hid thy loving-kindness and thy truth from the great assembly. "Restrain not thou, O Jehovah, thy tender mercies from me, "Let thy loving-kindness and thy truth continually preserve me; 12 "For evils without number have compassed me about, 66 'Mine iniquities have overtaken me, so that I am not able to see,a They are more than the hairs of mine head, so that my heart forsaketh me. 13 "Be pleased," O Jehovah, to deliver me: "O Jehovah, make haste for my help. 14 "Let those be ashamed and confounded to 15 gether that seek after my soul to destroy it; "Let those be turned back and put to confu- 16 "Let all those that seek thee rejoice and be glad in thee: "Let those that love thy salvation say con tinually, 'Let Jehovah be magnified.' 17 "But, as for me, I am afflicted and needy, yet my Lord thinketh upon me: 1 "Thou art my help and my deliverer; make no tarrying, O my God." PSALM XLI. For the chief Musician. A Psalm by David. BLESSED is he that considereth the poor one: Jehovah will deliver him in the day of evil. 2 Jehovah will keep him, yea, will keep him alive, and he shall be blessed upon the earth; And thou wilt not deliver him unto the will of his enemies. 3 Jehovah will sustain him upon the couch of 4 languishing; Thou wilt turn all his bed in his sickness. As for me, I have said, "O Jehovah, be gracious unto me: "Heal my soul; for I have sinned against thee." a Ps. cxiii. 7. 5 Mine enemies speak evil of me, "When shall he die, and his name perish?" 6 And when one cometh to see me, he speaketh lies: His heart gathereth iniquity to itself; When he goeth into the street, he speaketh it. 7 All that hate me whisper together against me : Against me, do they devise evil for me. 8 "Some wickedness," say they, "cleaveth fast unto him: "And now that he lieth down he shall rise up 9 Yea, my familiar friend, in whom I trusted, Who did eat of my bread, hath lifted up his heel against me." 10 But thou, O Jehovah, be gracious unto me, And raise me up, that I may requite them. 11 By this I know that thou delightest in me, Because mine enemy doth not triumph over me. 12 And as for me, in mine integrity thou wilt uphold me, 13 And set me before thy face for ever. Blessed be Jehovah, the God of Israel, for ever and ever. Amen and Amen. a Isa. liii. 4. b John xiii. 18. PART II. PSALM XLII. For the chief Musician. 1 A didactic Poem. For the sons of Korah. AS the hind panteth after the water brooks, So panteth my soul for thee, O God. 2 My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God: When shall I come and appear before God? 3 My tears are my bread day and night, While they say unto me all the day, “Where is thy God?" 4 When I remember these things, I pour out my soul within me; 5 For I passed on with the multitude; I walked with them to the house of God, With the voice of singing and thanksgiving, with the multitude keeping the feast. Why art thou bowed down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? aThat is, for the sons of Heman, the son of Korah : 1 Chron. vi. 31-38; xxv. 4-6. 6 Hope thou in God; for I shall yet give him thanks, My salvation and my God. My soul is bowed down within me; therefore will I remember thee From the land of Jordan, and the Hermons, from mount Mizar. 7 Deep calleth unto deep at the sound of thy waterspouts; All thy waves and thy billows have passed over me.a 8 Yet Jehovah will command his loving-kindness, by day, And, in the night, his song shall be with me, b 9 I will say unto God, my Rock, "Why hast thou forgotten me? 10 11 "Why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy? "As with a sword in my bones, mine adversaries reproach me, "While they say unto me all the day, 'Where is thy God?"", Why art thou bowed down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me ? a Jonah ii. 3.` b Job xxxv. 10. |