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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>Psalm 27 Smith's Literal Translation</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head> <script async src="https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=G-LR4HSKRP2H"></script> <script> window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);} gtag('js', new Date()); gtag('config', 'G-LR4HSKRP2H'); </script><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/psalms/27.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/psalms/27-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">SLT</a> > Psalm 27</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="../menu.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../psalms/26.htm" title="Psalm 26">◄</a> Psalm 27 <a href="../psalms/28.htm" title="Psalm 28">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">Smith's Literal Translation</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/parallel/psalms/27-1.htm" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Verses"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><A name="2"></a><p class="hdg">The LORD Is My Salvation<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/27-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>To David. Jehovah my light and my saviour; of whom shall I be afraid? Jehovah the strength of my life; from whom shall I tremble?<p> <A name="3"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/27-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>In the drawing near of those doing evil to me, to eat my flesh, adversaries and enemies to me, they were weak and fell.<p> <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/27-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>If a camp shall encamp against me, my heart shall not fear: if war shall rise up against me, in this I trust.<p> <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/27-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>I asked one from Jehovah, I will seek it; I sat in the house of Jehovah all the days of my life, to look upon the sweetness of Jehovah, and to inquire in his temple.<p> <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/27-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>For he will hide me in the booth in the day of evil: he will cover me with the covering of his tent; he will lift me up upon a rock.<p> <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/27-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>And now he will lift up my head over mine enemies round about me: and I will sacrifice in his tent sacrifices of rejoicing; I will sing and I will play on the harp to Jehovah.<p> <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/27-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Hear my voice, O Jehovah: I will call, and pity me and answer me.<p> <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/27-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>My heart said to thee, Seek ye my face; thy face, O Jehovah, I will seek.<p> <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/27-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Thou wilt not cover thy face from me; thou wilt not turn away thy servant in anger: thou, wert my help; thou wilt not leave me and thou wilt not forsake me, my God saving me.<p> <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/27-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>For my father and my mother forsook me, and Jehovah will gather me.<p> <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/27-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Teach me, O Jehovah, thy way, and lead me in a path of straitness for sake of those pressing me.<p> <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/27-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Thou wilt not give me to the soul of him pressing me, for witnesses of falsehood rose up against me, and violence will blow.<p> <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/27-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Unless I believed to look upon the goodness of Jehovah in the land of the living.<p> <A name=""></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/27-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Wait for Jehovah: be strong, and thy heart shall be strengthened: and wait for Jehovah.<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Holy Bible Containing the Old and New Testaments; Translated Literally From The Original Tongues by Julia E. 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