Psalm 19

¹ The heavens do declare

the majesty of God:

also the firmament shows forth

his handywork abroad.

² Day speaks to day, knowledge

night hath to night declar’d.

³ There neither speech nor language is,

where their voice is not heard.

⁴ Through all the earth their line

is gone forth, and unto

the utmost end of all the world,

their speeches reach also:

a tabernacle he

in them pitch’d for the sun.

⁵ Who bridegroom like from’s chamber goes

glad giant’s race to run.

⁶ From heaven’s utmost end,

his course and compassing;

to ends of it, and from the heat

thereof is hid nothing.

⁷ The Lord’s law perfect is,

the soul converting back:

God’s testimony faithful is,

makes wise who wisdom lack.

⁸ The statutes of the Lord,

are right, and glad the heart:

the Lord’s commandement is pure,

light doth to eyes impart.

⁹ Jehovah’s fear is clean,

and doth endure for ever:

the judgments of the Lord are true,

and righteous altogether.

¹⁰ Than gold, than much fine gold,

more to be prized are,

than honey, and the honeycomb,

sweeter they are by far.

¹¹ Also thy servant is

admonished from hence:

and in the keeping of the same

is a full recompence.

¹² Who can his errors know?

from secret faults cleanse me.

¹³ And from presumptuous sins, let thou

kept back thy servant be:

let them not bear the rule

in me, and then shall I

be perfect, and shall cleansed be

from much iniquity.