² When evil doers come near to me to eat my flesh, My adversaries and mine enemies to me, They have stumbled and fallen.

³ Though a host doth encamp against me, My heart doth not fear, Though war riseth up against me, In this I `am' confident.

⁴ One `thing' I asked of Jehovah -- it I seek. My dwelling in the house of Jehovah, All the days of my life, To look on the pleasantness of Jehovah, And to inquire in His temple.

⁴ `And I say to you, my friends, be not afraid of those killing the body, and after these things are not having anything over to do;

⁵ but I will show to you, whom ye may fear; Fear him who, after the killing, is having authority to cast to the gehenna; yes, I say to you, Fear ye Him.

⁶ `Are not five sparrows sold for two assars? and one of them is not forgotten before God,

²⁸ `And be not afraid of those killing the body, and are not able to kill the soul, but fear rather Him who is able both soul and body to destroy in gehenna.

¹ By David. Jehovah `is' my light and my salvation, Whom do I fear? Jehovah `is' the strength of my life, Of whom am I afraid?

⁶ so that we do boldly say, `The Lord `is' to me a helper, and I will not fear what man shall do to me.'

⁶ Jehovah `is' for me, I do not fear what man doth to me.

⁶ `And thou, son of man, thou art not afraid of them, yea, of their words thou art not afraid, for briers and thorns are with thee, and near scorpions thou art dwelling, of their words thou art not afraid, and of their faces thou art not affrighted, for they `are' a rebellious house,

³ The day I am afraid I am confident toward Thee.

⁴ In God I praise His word, in God I have trusted, I fear not what flesh doth to me.

⁵ All the day they wrest my words, Concerning me all their thoughts `are' for evil,