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Psalm 34
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Vers 1
my mouth shall still express.
My soul shall boast in God: the meek
shall hear with joyfulness.
Vers 2
exalt his name together.
I sought the Lord, he heard, and did
me from all fears deliver.
Vers 3
not shamed were their faces.
This poor man cry’d, God heard, and sav’d
him from all his distresses.
Vers 4
and round encompasseth
All those about that do him fear,
and them delivereth.
Vers 5
who trusts in him is bless’d.
Fear God his saints: none that him fear
shall be with want oppress’d.
Vers 6
and they may lack their food:
But they that truly seek the Lord
shall not lack any good.
Vers 7
and unto me give ear;
I shall you teach to understand
how ye the Lord should fear.
Vers 8
to see good would live long?
Thy lips refrain from speaking guile,
and from ill words thy tongue.
Vers 9
pursue it earnestly.
God’s eyes are on the just; his ears
are open to their cry.
Vers 10
those that do wickedly,
That he may quite out from the earth
cut off their memory.
Vers 11
he unto them gives ear;
And they out of their troubles all
by him deliver’d are.
Vers 12
that be of broken sp’rit;
To them he safety doth afford
that are in heart contrite.
Vers 13
in number many be;
But yet at length out of them all
the Lord doth set him free.
Vers 14
whatever can befall;
That not so much as one of them
can broken be at all.
Vers 15
shall be who hate the just.
The Lord redeems his servants’ souls;
none perish that him trust.
Psalm 34 is een psalm van David en behoort tot Boek I (Psalm 1–41) van het Psalter. Acrostische psalm: Elke strofe begint met een opvolgende letter van het Hebreeuwse alfabet.
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