1 Vir die musiekleier. 'n Psalm van Dawid. By die HERE skuil ek. Hoe kan julle dan vir my sê: Vlug na julle berg soos 'n voël!

2 Want kyk, die goddelose span die boog; hulle het hul pyl op die snaar reggesit om in die donker te skiet na die opregtes van hart.

3 As die fondamente omgegooi word, wat kan die regverdige doen?

4 Die HERE is in sy heilige paleis; die troon van die HERE is in die hemel; sy oë sien, sy ooglede toets die mensekinders.

5 Die HERE toets die regverdige; maar sy siel haat die goddelose en die wat geweld liefhet.

6 Hy sal op die goddelose vangnette, vuur en swawel laat reën; en 'n gloeiende wind sal die deel van hulle beker wees.

7 Want die HERE is regverdig; Hy het geregtighede lief; die opregtes sal sy aangesig sien.

1 In Jehovah do I take refuge:

How say ye to my soul,

Flee as a bird to your mountain;

2 For, lo, the wicked bend the bow,

They make ready their arrow upon the string,

That they may shoot in darkness at the upright in heart;

3 If the foundations be destroyed,

What can the righteous do?

4 Jehovah is in his holy temple;

Jehovah, his throne is in heaven;

His eyes behold, his eyelids try, the children of men.

5 Jehovah trieth the righteous;

But the wicked and him that loveth violence his soul hateth.

6 Upon the wicked he will rain snares;

Fire and brimstone and burning wind shall be the portion of their cup.

7 For Jehovah is righteous; he loveth righteousness:

The upright shall behold his face.