1 By David. Jehovah [is] my light and my salvation, Whom do I fear? Jehovah [is] the strength of my life, Of whom am I afraid? YLT — Psalm 27:1
2 When evil doers come near to me to eat my flesh, My adversaries and mine enemies to me, They have stumbled and fallen. YLT — Psalm 27:2
3 Though a host doth encamp against me, My heart doth not fear, Though war riseth up against me, In this I [am] confident. YLT — Psalm 27:3
4 One [thing] I asked of Jehovah — it I seek. My dwelling in the house of Jehovah, All the days of my life, To look on the pleasantness of Jehovah, And to inquire in His temple. YLT — Psalm 27:4
5 For He hideth me in a tabernacle in the day of evil, He hideth me in a secret place of His tent, On a rock he raiseth me up. YLT — Psalm 27:5
6 And now, lifted up is my head, Above my enemies — my surrounders, And I sacrifice in His tent sacrifices of shouting, I sing, yea, I sing praise to Jehovah. YLT — Psalm 27:6
7 Hear, O Jehovah, my voice — I call, And favour me, and answer me. YLT — Psalm 27:7
8 To Thee said my heart ‘They sought my face, Thy face, O Jehovah, I seek.’ YLT — Psalm 27:8
9 Hide not Thy face from me, Turn not aside in anger Thy servant, My help Thou hast been. Leave me not, nor forsake me, O God of my salvation. YLT — Psalm 27:9
10 When my father and my mother Have forsaken me, then doth Jehovah gather me. YLT — Psalm 27:10
11 Shew me, O Jehovah, Thy way, And lead me in a path of uprightness, For the sake of my beholders. YLT — Psalm 27:11
12 Give me not to the will of my adversaries, For risen against me have false witnesses, And they breathe out violence to me. YLT — Psalm 27:12
13 I had not believed to look on the goodness of Jehovah In the land of the living! YLT — Psalm 27:13
14 Look unto Jehovah — be strong, And He doth strengthen thy heart, Yea, look unto Jehovah! YLT — Psalm 27:14