1 'n Psalm van Dawid; 'n onderwysing. Welgeluksalig is hy wie se oortreding vergewe, wie se sonde bedek is.

2 Welgeluksalig is die mens aan wie die HERE die ongeregtigheid nie toereken nie en in wie se gees geen bedrog is nie.

3 Toe ek geswyg het, het my gebeente uitgeteer in my gebrul die hele dag;

4 want u hand was dag en nag swaar op my; my murg het verander soos deur somergloed. Sela.

5 My sonde het ek U bekend gemaak, en my ongeregtigheid het ek nie bedek nie. Ek het gesê: Ek wil aan die HERE my oortredinge bely; en U het die ongeregtigheid van my sonde vergewe. Sela.

6 Daarom sal elke vrome U aanbid in 'n tyd as U te vinde is; ja, by 'n oorstroming van groot waters sal hulle nie aan hom raak nie.

7 U is 'n skuilplek vir my; U bewaar my vir benoudheid; U omring my met vrolike gesange van bevryding. Sela.

8 Ek wil jou onderrig en jou leer aangaande die weg wat jy moet gaan; Ek wil raad gee; my oog sal op jou wees.

9 Wees nie soos 'n perd, soos 'n muilesel wat geen verstand het nie, wat 'n mens moet tem met toom en teuel as sy tuig, anders kom hy nie naby jou nie.

10 Die goddelose het baie smarte, maar hy wat op die HERE vertrou -- met goedertierenheid sal Hy hom omring.

11 Wees bly in die HERE en juig, o regverdiges! En jubel, alle opregtes van hart!

1 Of David. Maschil. Happy is he who has forgiveness for his wrongdoing, and whose sin is covered.

2 Happy is the man in whom the Lord sees no evil, and in whose spirit there is no deceit.

3 When I kept my mouth shut, my bones were wasted, because of my crying all through the day.

4 For the weight of your hand was on me day and night; my body became dry like the earth in summer. (Selah.)

5 I made my wrongdoing clear to you, and did not keep back my sin. I said, I will put it all before the Lord; and you took away my wrongdoing and my sin. (Selah.)

6 For this cause let every saint make his prayer to you at a time when you are near: then the overflowing of the great waters will not overtake him.

7 You are my safe and secret place; you will keep me from trouble; you will put songs of salvation on the lips of those who are round me. (Selah.)

8 I will give you knowledge, teaching you the way to go; my eye will be your guide.

9 Do not be like the horse or the ass, without sense; ...

10 The sinner will be full of trouble; but mercy will be round the man who has faith in the Lord.

11 Be glad in the Lord with joy, you upright men; give cries of joy, all you whose hearts are true.