8 When not delivering-me-up-bound* into the hand of the enemy, Thou shalt have set my feet in an ample space. 9 Pity me, O Jehovah, for trouble-besets me, My eye is wasted with fretting, My soul pines, and my person is emaciated. [D] 10 Truly my life is consumed in sorrow, And my years in groaning; My strength is exhausted by my punishment, 11 I am become a reproach among all mine enemies, And a nuisance [F] to my neighbours, and a fright to all who know me. Any-who-see-me abroad, flee from me. 12 I am forgotten like one dead, I am out-of-mind like a broken vessel. * To express clearly what I take to be the sense, I have taken the liberty to render a verb by a participle. For the sake of perspicuity, a translator must sometimes abandon the idioms of syntax in the original language. + LXX. Vulg. and Syr. seem to have read, "y, for they translate "my poverty." E 13 Truly I have heard the angry muttering of the mighty, Of them that are the general dread, [G] While they sit-in-council together against me; 14 But I have-placed-my-trust in thee, O Jehovah, I have said, Thou art my God. 15 My fortunes are in thy hand; Deliver me from the hand of my enemy, and from my persecutor. 16 Let thy countenance shine upon thy servant, Save me in thy tender-mercy. 17 O Jehovah, let me not be-brought-to-shame, that I have called upon thee. Let the impious be-brought-to-shame. [H] hell; ORACULAR VOICE. They shall be motionless in 18 The lying lips shall be struck dumb, Which speak hard things against the JUST ONE, THANKSGIVING. 19 How great is thy goodness, which thou hast in store for them that fear thee, Which thou hast wrought for them, that take shelter with thee, in the sight of the sons of men. 20 Thou shalt hide them, in the secret-place of thy presence, from the conspiracies of men. Thou shalt screen them in thy pavilion from the abuse of tongues. 21 Blessed be Jehovah! For he hath set apart his saints for himself, in a city [I] of defence. 22 I indeed said in my consternation, I am exiled from thy presence*: * Literally, “ I am cut off from before thine eyes." But thou hast heard the voice of my entreaty, Upon my crying unto thee. 23 Love ye the Jehovah, all his saints: Jehovah preserveth the faithful, And requiteth unto him that is foremost* in the deeds of arrogance. 24 Take All ye courage, and let your heart be firmt, who have hope in Jehovah. PSALM XXXII. THE BELIEVER'S PENITENTIAL CONFESSION. 1 BLESSED is he who is eased-of-the-burden of his wilful-crimes, Whose trespasses are covered. * Or " that excelleth," or "is abundant." + See XXVII. 14. 2 Blessed is the man to whom Jehovah imputeth not perverseness, In whose spirit is no guile. 3 While I was silent *, my bones decayed, By my loud-lamentation all the day. 4 For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me, My moisture was changed into the summer's drought. 5 I will acknowledge my trespasses unto thee, My perverseness I will not conceal; [A] I said I will-make-confession of my unto Jehovah, wilful-crimeş And thou forgavest the perversity of 6 For this cause, shall every saint my sin. Make-prayer unto thee in a season of accept ance. * "While I was silent," i. e. with respect to confession. Before I made confession I was in constant agony of mind; now, by confessing my sins, I have obtained ease. |