² When evildoers assail me
    to ^(D)eat up my flesh,
my adversaries and foes,
    it is they who stumble and fall.

^3 (E)Though an army encamp against me,
    my heart shall not fear;
though war arise against me,
    yet^[b] I will be confident.

^4 (F)One thing have I asked of the Lord,
    that will I seek after:
that I may ^(G)dwell in the house of the Lord
    all the days of my life,
to gaze upon ^(H)the beauty of the Lord
    and to inquire^[c] in his temple.

⁵ For he will ^(I)hide me in his shelter
    in the day of trouble;
he will conceal me under the cover of his tent;
    he will ^(J)lift me high upon a rock.

⁶ And now my ^(K)head shall be lifted up
    above my enemies all around me,
and I will offer in his tent
    sacrifices with shouts of ^(L)joy;
^(M)I will sing and make melody to the Lord.

^7 (N)Hear, O Lord, when I cry aloud;
    be gracious to me and answer me!
⁸ You have said, ^(O)“Seek^[d] my face.”
My heart says to you,
    “Your face, Lord, do I seek.”^{[e]
9     (P)}Hide not your face from me.
Turn not your servant away in anger,
    O you who have been my help.
Cast me not off; forsake me not,
    ^(Q)O God of my salvation!
¹⁰ For ^(R)my father and my mother have forsaken me,
    but the Lord will ^(S)take me in.

^11 (T)Teach me your way, O Lord,
    and lead me on ^(U)a level path
    because of my enemies.
^12 (V)Give me not up to the will of my adversaries;
    for ^(W)false witnesses have risen against me,
    and they ^(X)breathe out violence.

¹³ I believe that I shall look^[f] upon ^(Y)the goodness of the Lord
    in ^(Z)the land of the living!
^14 (AA)Wait for the Lord;
    ^(AB)be strong, and let your heart take courage;
    wait for the Lord!

39 “Do you know when ^(A)the mountain goats give birth?
    Do you observe ^(B)the calving of the does?
² Can you number the months that they fulfill,
    and do you know the time when they give birth,
³ when they ^(C)crouch, bring forth their offspring,
    and are delivered of their young?
⁴ Their young ones become strong; they grow up in the open;
    they go out and ^(D)do not return to them.

⁵ “Who has let the wild donkey go free?
    Who has ^(E)loosed the bonds of the swift donkey,
⁶ to whom I have given ^(F)the arid plain for his home
    and ^(G)the salt land for his dwelling place?
⁷ He scorns the tumult of the city;
    he hears not the shouts of the driver.
⁸ He ranges the mountains as his pasture,
    and he searches after every green thing.

⁹ “Is ^(H)the wild ox willing to serve you?
    Will he spend the night at your ^(I)manger?
¹⁰ Can you bind ^(J)him in the furrow with ropes,
    or will he harrow the valleys after you?
¹¹ Will you depend on him because his strength is great,
    and will you leave to him your labor?
¹² Do you have faith in him that he will return your grain
    and gather it to your threshing floor?

¹³ “The wings of the ostrich wave proudly,
    but are they the pinions and plumage of love?^[a]
14 For she leaves her eggs to the earth
    and lets them be warmed on the ground,
¹⁵ forgetting that a foot may crush them
    and that the wild beast may trample them.
¹⁶ She ^(K)deals cruelly with her young, as if they were not hers;
    though her ^(L)labor be in vain, yet she has no fear,
¹⁷ because God has made her forget wisdom
    and ^(M)given her no share in understanding.
¹⁸ When she rouses herself to flee,^[b]
    she laughs at the horse and his rider.

¹⁹ “Do you give the horse his might?
    Do you clothe his neck with a mane?
²⁰ Do you make him leap like the locust?
    His majestic ^(N)snorting is terrifying.
²¹ He paws^[c] in the valley and exults in his strength;
    he ^(O)goes out to meet the weapons.
²² He laughs at fear and is not dismayed;
    he does not turn back from the sword.
²³ Upon him rattle the quiver,
    the flashing spear, and the javelin.
²⁴ With fierceness and rage he swallows the ground;
    he cannot stand still at ^(P)the sound of the trumpet.
²⁵ When the trumpet sounds, he says ‘Aha!’
    He smells the battle from afar,
    the thunder of the captains, and the shouting.

²⁶ “Is it by your understanding that the hawk soars
    and spreads his wings toward the south?
²⁷ Is it at your command that the eagle mounts up
    and makes his ^(Q)nest on high?
²⁸ On the rock he dwells and makes his home,
    on ^(R)the rocky crag and stronghold.
²⁹ From there he spies out the prey;
    his eyes behold it from far away.
³⁰ His young ones suck up blood,
    and ^(S)where the slain are, there is he.”