Psalms 32

1 [A Psalm] of instruction by David. Blessed [are they] whose transgressions are forgiven, and who sins are covered.

[A Psalm] of David, Maschil. Blessed [is he whose] transgression [is] forgiven, [whose] sin [is] covered.

2 Blessed is the man to whom the Lord will not impute sin, and whose mouth there is no guile.

Blessed [is] the man to whom the LORD imputeth not iniquity, and in whose spirit [there is] no guile.

3 Because I kept silence, my bones waxed old, from my crying all the day.

When I kept silence, my bones became old through my roaring all the day long.

4 For day and night your hand was heavy upon me: I became thoroughly miserable while a thorn was fastened in [me]. (Pause)

For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me: my moisture is turned into the drouth of summer. (Selah)

5 I acknowledged my sin, and hid not mine iniquity: I said, I will confess mine iniquity to the Lord against myself; and you forgave the ungodliness of my heart. (Pause)

I acknowledged my sin to thee, and my iniquity have I not hid. I said, I will confess my transgressions to the LORD; and thou forgavest the iniquity of my sin. (Selah)

6 Therefore shall every holy one pray to you in a fit time: only in the deluge of many waters they shall not come near to him.

For this shall every one that is godly pray to thee in a time when thou mayest be found: surely in the floods of great waters they shall not come nigh to him.

7 You are my refuge from the affliction that encompasses me; my joy, to deliver me from them that have compassed me. (Pause)

Thou [art] my hiding place; thou wilt preserve me from trouble; thou wilt compass me about with songs of deliverance. (Selah)

8 I will instruct you and guide you in this way wherein you shall go: I will fix mine eyes upon you.

I will instruct thee, and teach thee in the way which thou shalt go: I will guide thee with my eye.

9 Be you not as horse and mule, which have no understanding; [but you must] constrain their jaws with bit and curb, lest they should come near to you.

Be ye not as the horse, [or] as the mule, [which] have no understanding: whose mouth must be held in with bit and bridle, lest they come near to thee.

10 Many are the scourges of the sinner: but him that hopes in the Lord mercy shall compass about.

Many sorrows [shall be] to the wicked: but he that trusteth in the LORD, mercy shall encompass him.

11 Be glad in the Lord, and exult, you righteous: and glory, all you that are upright in heart.

Be glad in the LORD, and rejoice, ye righteous: and shout for joy, all [ye that are] upright in heart.