A Psalm of Solomon: To comfort the righteous.

1 The right hand of God overshadowed me: the right hand of God spared us.

2 The arm of God saved us from the sword that passed through: from famine and from the plague of the sinners.

3 Noisome beasts ran upon them: with their teeth they rent the flesh of them, and with their jaws they brake their bones in pieces; and out of all these things did God save us.

4 The ungodly man was troubled because of his transgressions: lest he should be taken along with the sinners.

5 For fearful is the overthrow of the sinner: and of all these things nothing shall touch the righteous.

6 For the chastening of the righteous which have sinned ignorantly, and the overthrow of the sinners are not alike.

7 The righteous is chastened secretly; that the sinner may not rejoice over the righteous.

8 For He will admonish the righteous as a man admonisheth a beloved son: and His chastening is as a man chasteneth his firstborn.

9 For God will spare His saints, and will blot out their transgressions with His chastening: for the life of the righteous is for ever.

10 But sinners shall be taken away unto destruction: and the memorial of them shall no more be found.

11 But upon the saints is the mercy of God: yea upon them that fear Him is His mercy.