A Psalm of David, when he changed his behaviour before Abimelech; who drove him away, and he departed.

8,6,8,6

^1God will I bless all times; his praise

my mouth shall still express.

^2My soul shall boast in God: the meek

shall hear with joyfulness.

^3Extol the Lord with me, let us

exalt his name together.

^4I sought the Lord, he heard, and did

me from all fears deliver.

^5They look'd to him, and lighten'd were:

not shamed were their faces.

^6This poor man cry'd, God heard, and sav'd

him from all his distresses.

^7The angel of the Lord encamps,

and round encompasseth

All those about that do him fear,

and them delivereth.

^8O taste and see that God is good:

who trusts in him is bless'd.

^9Fear God his saints: none that him fear

shall be with want oppress'd.

^10The lions young may hungry be,

and they may lack their food:

But they that truly seek the Lord

shall not lack any good.

^11O children, hither do ye come,

and unto me give ear;

I shall you teach to understand

how ye the Lord should fear.

^12What man is he that life desires,

to see good would live long?

^13Thy lips refrain from speaking guile,

and from ill words thy tongue.

^14Depart from ill, do good, seek peace,

pursue it earnestly.

^15God's eyes are on the just; his ears

are open to their cry.

^16The face of God is set against

those that do wickedly,

That he may quite out from the earth

cut off their memory.

^17The righteous cry unto the Lord,

he unto them gives ear;

And they out of their troubles all

by him deliver'd are.

^18The Lord is ever nigh to them

that be of broken sp'rit;

To them he safety doth afford

that are in heart contrite.

^19The troubles that afflict the just

in number many be;

But yet at length out of them all

the Lord doth set him free.

^20He carefully his bones doth keep,

whatever can befall;

That not so much as one of them

can broken be at all.

^21Ill shall the wicked slay; laid waste

shall be who hate the just.

^22The Lord redeems his servants' souls;

none perish that him trust.