² Yahweh will preserve him, and keep him alive, He shall be blessed on the earth, And he will not surrender him to the will of his enemies.

¹² Don't deliver me over to the desire of my adversaries, For false witnesses have risen up against me, Such as breathe out cruelty.

¹⁹ To deliver their soul from death, To keep them alive in famine.

²² For such as are blessed by him shall inherit the land. Those who are cursed by him shall be cut off.

³² The wicked watches the righteous, And seeks to kill him.

³³ Yahweh will not leave him in his hand, Nor condemn him when he is judged.

³ For he will deliver you from the snare of the fowler, And from the deadly pestilence.

⁴ He will cover you with his feathers. Under his wings you will take refuge. His faithfulness is your shield and rampart.

⁵ You shall not be afraid of the terror by night, Nor of the arrow that flies by day;

⁶ Nor of the pestilence that walks in darkness, Nor of the destruction that wastes at noonday.

⁷ A thousand may fall at your side, And ten thousand at your right hand; But it will not come near you.

¹ > Blessed is everyone who fears Yahweh, Who walks in his ways.

² For you will eat the labor of your hands. You will be happy, and it will be well with you.

³ Your wife will be as a fruitful vine, In the innermost parts of your house; Your children like olive plants, Around your table.

⁴ Behold, thus is the man blessed who fears Yahweh.

⁵ May Yahweh bless you out of Zion, And may you see the good of Jerusalem all the days of your life.

⁶ Yes, may you see your children's children. Peace be upon Israel.

⁸ Yahweh, don't grant the desires of the wicked. Don't let their evil plans succeed, or they will become proud. Selah.

⁹ As for the head of those who surround me, Let the mischief of their own lips cover them.

⁴ Thus shall you tell him, Thus says Yahweh: Behold, that which I have built will I break down, and that which I have planted I will pluck up; and this in the whole land.

⁵ Seek you great things for yourself? Don't seek them; for, behold, I will bring evil on all flesh, says Yahweh; but your life will I give to you for a prey in all places where you go.

⁸ For bodily exercise has some value, but godliness has value for all things, having the promise of the life which is now, and of that which is to come.