PSALM 27

    ¹For David.

    The LORD is my light and my rescue.

          Whom should I fear?

    The LORD is my life’s stronghold.

          Of whom should I be afraid?

    ²When evildoers draw near me to eat my flesh—

          my foes and my enemies are they—

                they trip and they fall.

    ³Though a camp is marshaled against me,

          my heart shall not fear.

    Though battle is roused against me,

          nonetheless do I trust.

    ⁴One thing do I ask of the LORD,

          it is this that I seek—

    that I dwell in the house of the LORD

          all the days of my life,

    to behold the LORD’s sweetness

          and to gaze on His palace.

    ⁵For He hides me in His shelter

          on the day of evil.

    He conceals me in the recess of His tent,

          on a rock He raises me up.

    ⁶And now my head rises

          over my enemies around me:

    Let me offer in His tent

          sacrifices with joyous shouts.

                Let me sing and hymn to the LORD.

    ⁷Hear, O LORD, my voice when I call,

          and grant me grace and answer me.

    ⁸Of You, my heart said:

          “Seek My face.”

                Your face, LORD, I do seek.

    ⁹Do not hide Your face from me,

          do not turn Your servant away in wrath.

    You are my help.

          Abandon me not, nor forsake me,

                O God of my rescue.

    ¹⁰Though my father and mother forsook me,

          the LORD would gather me in.

    ¹¹Teach me, O LORD, Your way,

          and lead me on a level path

                because of my adversaries.

    ¹²Do not put me in the maw of my foes.

          For false witnesses rose against me,

                outrageous deposers.

    ¹³If I but trust to see the LORD’s goodness,

          in the land of the living—

    ¹⁴Hope for the LORD!

          Let your heart be firm and bold,

                and hope for the LORD.