PSALMS
PSALM 34
David blesses the Lord at all times—He counsels: Keep thy tongue from evil; do good and seek peace—Speaking Messianically he says: He keepeth all his bones; not one of them is broken.
A Psalm of David, when he changed his behaviour before Abimelech; who drove him away, and he departed.
1 I
WILL bless the L
ORD at all times: his praise
shall continually
be in my mouth.
2 My soul shall make her boast in the L
ORD: the humble shall hear
thereof, and be glad.
3 O magnify the L
ORD with me, and let us exalt his name together.
4 I sought the L
ORD, and he heard me, and delivered me from all my fears.
5 They looked unto him, and were lightened: and their faces were not ashamed.
6 This poor man cried, and the L
ORD heard
him, and saved him out of all his troubles.
7 The angel of the L
ORD encampeth round about them that fear him, and delivereth them.
8 O taste and see that the L
ORD is good: blessed
is the man
that trusteth in him.
9 O fear the L
ORD, ye his saints: for
there is no want to them that fear him.
10 The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger: but they that seek the L
ORD shall not want any good
thing.
11 Come, ye children, hearken unto me: I will teach you the fear of the L
ORD.
12 What man
is he that desireth life,
and loveth
many days, that he may see good?
13 Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile.
14 Depart from evil, and do good; seek peace, and pursue it.
15 The eyes of the L
ORD are upon the righteous, and his ears
are open unto their cry.
16 The face of the L
ORD is against them that do evil, to cut off the remembrance of them from the earth.
17
The righteous cry, and the L
ORD heareth, and delivereth them out of all their troubles.
18 The L
ORD is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart; and saveth such as be of a contrite spirit.
19 Many
are the afflictions of the righteous: but the L
ORD delivereth him out of them all.
20 He keepeth all his bones: not one of them is broken.
21 Evil shall slay the wicked: and they that hate the righteous shall be desolate.
22 The L
ORD redeemeth the soul of his servants: and none of them that trust in him shall be desolate.