1 'n Psalm van Dawid. Die HERE is my lig en my heil: vir wie sou ek vrees? Die HERE is die toevlug van my lewe: vir wie sou ek vervaard wees?
2 As kwaaddoeners teen my nader kom om my vlees te eet -- my teëstanders en my vyande, ja, myne -- struikel hulle self en val.
3 Al word 'n laer teen my opgeslaan, my hart sal nie vrees nie; al staan 'n oorlog teen my op, nogtans vertrou ek.
4 Een ding het ek van die HERE begeer, dit sal ek soek: dat ek al die dae van my lewe mag woon in die huis van die HERE, om die lieflikheid van die HERE te aanskou en te ondersoek in sy tempel.
5 Want Hy steek my weg in sy hut in die dag van onheil; Hy verberg my in die skuilplek van sy tent; Hy verhef my op 'n rots.
6 En nou sal my hoof hoog wees bo my vyande rondom my, en ek wil in sy tent offerandes offer saam met trompetgeklank; ek wil sing, ja, psalmsing tot eer van die HERE.
7 Hoor, o HERE, ek roep luid; en wees my genadig en antwoord my.
8 Van U sê my hart: Soek my aangesig! Ek soek u aangesig, o HERE!
9 Verberg u aangesig nie vir my nie, wys u kneg nie af in toorn nie: U was my hulp! Verstoot en verlaat my nie, o God van my heil!
10 Want my vader en my moeder het my verlaat, maar die HERE sal my aanneem.
11 HERE, leer my u weg en lei my op 'n gelyk pad, vanweë my vyande.
12 Gee my nie oor aan die begeerte van my teëstanders nie, want valse getuies het teen my opgestaan, en hy wat geweld uitblaas.
13 o, As ek nie geglo het dat ek die goedheid van die HERE sal sien in die land van die lewendes nie....
14 Wag op die Here! Wees sterk en laat jou hart sterk wees! Ja, wag op die HERE!
1 Of David. The Lord is my light and my salvation; who is then a cause of fear to me? the Lord is the strength of my life; who is a danger to me?
2 When evil-doers, even my haters, came on me to put an end to me, they were broken and put to shame.
3 Even if an army came against me with its tents, my heart would have no fear: if war was made on me, my faith would not be moved.
4 One prayer have I made to the Lord, and this is my heart's desire; that I may have a place in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, looking on his glory, and getting wisdom in his Temple.
5 For in the time of trouble he will keep me safe in his tent: in the secret place of his tent he will keep me from men's eyes; high on a rock he will put me.
6 And now my head will be lifted up higher than my haters who are round me: because of this I will make offerings of joy in his tent; I will make a song, truly I will make a song of praise to the Lord.
7 O Lord, let the voice of my cry come to your ears: have mercy on me, and give me an answer.
8 When you said, Make search for my face, my heart said to you, For your face will I make my search.
9 Let not your face be covered from me; do not put away your servant in wrath; you have been my help: do not give me up or take your support from me, O God of my salvation.
10 When my father and my mother are turned away from me, then the Lord will be my support.
11 Make your way clear to me, O Lord, guiding me by the right way, because of my haters.
12 Do not give me into their hands, because false witnesses have come out against me, and men breathing destruction.
13 I had almost given up my hope of seeing the blessing of the Lord in the land of the living.
14 Let your hope be in the Lord: take heart and be strong; yes, let your hope be in the Lord.