David’s An Instructive Psalm.

¹ How happy is he whose transgression is forgiven! whose sin is pardoned!

² How happy the son of earth, to whom Yahweh will not reckon iniquity! and in whose spirit is no guile!

³ When I kept silence, my bones became worn out, Through my groaning all the day;

⁴ For, day and night, heavy upon me, was thy hand,—Changed was my life-sap into the drought of summer. [Selah.]

⁵ My sin, would I own unto thee, and, mine iniquity, not hide, I said, I will confess my transgressions unto Yahweh, And, thou, didst forgive the iniquity of my sin. [Selah.]

⁶ For this cause, will every man of lovingkindness pray unto thee, in time to obtain,—Surely, in the overflow of many waters, unto him, shall they not reach.

⁷ Thou, art a hiding-place for me, From distress, wilt thou preserve me,—With shouts of deliverance, wilt thou compass me about. [Selah.]

⁸ I will make thee discreet, I will point out to thee the way which thou must go, I will fix upon thee mine eye.

⁹ Do not ye become like a horse, like a mule, without discernment,—With the bit and bridle of his mouth, [hast thou] to restrain him,—He will not come near unto thee.

¹⁰ Many pains, hath the lawless one,—But, he that trusteth in Yahweh, Lovingkindness, shall compass him about.

¹¹ Rejoice in Yahweh and exult, O ye righteous, Yea, shout in triumph, all ye upright in heart!