Though a host should encamp against me, My heart shall not fear: Though war should rise against me, Even then will I be confident.

O Jehovah, thou hast brought up my soul from Sheol; Thou hast kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit.

Wherefore should I fear in the days of evil, When iniquity at my heels compasseth me about?

That he should still live alway, That he should not see corruption.

For he established a testimony in Jacob, And appointed a law in Israel, Which he commanded our fathers, That they should make them known to their children;

That the generation to come might know them , even the children that should be born; Who should arise and tell them to their children,

Wherefore should the nations say, Where is their God? Let the avenging of the blood of thy servants which is shed Be known among the nations in our sight.

The haters of Jehovah should submit themselves unto him: But their time should endure for ever.

Wherefore I sware in my wrath, That they should not enter into my rest.

Who laid the foundations of the earth, That it should not be moved for ever.

Therefore he said that he would destroy them, Had not Moses his chosen stood before him in the breach, To turn away his wrath, lest he should destroy them .

Wherefore should the nations say, Where is now their God?

Thou hast commanded us thy precepts, That we should observe them diligently.

Unless thy law had been my delight, I should then have perished in mine affliction.

If I should count them, they are more in number than the sand: When I awake, I am still with thee.

Cause me to hear thy lovingkindness in the morning; For in thee do I trust: Cause me to know the way wherein I should walk; For I lift up my soul unto thee.