Psalm 91 in Hebrew, English, Spanish

Salmo 91 (Reina-Valera 1909)

Salmo 91 (Reina-Valera 1909), as it appears in the edition cited below.

Spanish · Santa Biblia, Reina-Valera, revision de 1909, 1909Read twice, independently

EL que habita al abrigo del Altísimo, morará bajo la sombra del Omnipotente.
Diré yo á Jehová: Esperanza mía, y castillo mío; mi Dios, en él confiaré.
Y él te librará del lazo del cazador: de la peste destruidora.
Con sus plumas te cubrirá, y debajo de sus alas estarás seguro: escudo y adarga es su verdad.
No tendrás temor de espanto nocturno, ni de saeta que vuele de día;
Ni de pestilencia que ande en oscuridad, ni de mortandad que en medio del día destruya.
Caerán á tu lado mil, y diez mil á tu diestra: mas á ti no llegará.
Ciertamente con tus ojos mirarás, y verás la recompensa de los impíos.
Porque tú has puesto á Jehová, que es mi esperanza, al Altísimo por tu habitación,
No te sobrevendrá mal, ni plaga tocará tu morada.
Pues que á sus ángeles mandará acerca de ti, que te guarden en todos tus caminos.
En las manos te llevarán, porque tu pie no tropiece en piedra.
Sobre el león y el basilisco pisarás; hollarás al cachorro del león y al dragón.
Por cuanto en mí ha puesto su voluntad, yo también lo libraré: pondrélo en alto, por cuanto ha conocido mi nombre.
Me invocará, y yo le responderé: con él estaré yo en la angustia: lo libraré, y le glorificaré.
Saciarélo de larga vida, y mostraréle mi salud.

Casiodoro de Reina and Cipriano de Valera, 1909 revision. 1909. Published 1909, before 1929, US public domain, and distributed as public domain by ebible.org. Later Reina-Valera revisions such as RVR1960 are in copyright and are not used here. Source

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Psalm 91 (JPS 1917)

A psalm of protection. It is said in the bedtime prayers, at the close of the Sabbath, and during a funeral as the coffin is accompanied to the grave.

English · The Holy Scriptures According to the Masoretic Text (JPS), 1917Checked against a second digitisation

O thou that dwellest in the covert of the Most High,
And abidest in the shadow of the Almighty;
I will say of the LORD, who is my refuge and my fortress,
My God, in whom I trust,
That He will deliver thee from the snare of the fowler,
And from the noisome pestilence.
He will cover thee with His pinions,
And under His wings shalt thou take refuge;
His truth is a shield and a buckler.
Thou shalt not be afraid of the terror by night,
Nor of the arrow that flieth by day;
Of the pestilence that walketh in darkness,
Nor of the destruction that wasteth at noonday.
A thousand may fall at Thy side,
And ten thousand at Thy right hand;
It shall not come nigh thee.
Only with thine eyes shalt thou behold,
And see the recompense of the wicked.
For thou hast made the LORD who is my refuge,
Even the Most High, thy habitation.
There shall no evil befall thee,
Neither shall any plague come nigh thy tent.
For He will give His angels charge over thee,
To keep thee in all thy ways.
They shall bear thee upon their hands,
Lest thou dash thy foot against a stone.
Thou shalt tread upon the lion and asp;
The young lion and the serpent shalt thou trample under feet.
'Because he hath set his love upon Me, therefore will I deliver him;
I will set him on high, because he hath known My name.
He shall call upon Me, and I will answer him; I will be with him in trouble;
I will rescue him, and bring him to honour.
With long life will I satisfy him,
And make Him to behold My salvation.'

Jewish Publication Society of America, 1917. Published 1917, before 1929, US public domain. Retrieved and verified 2026-09-17. Source

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Hebrew · Tanach with Nikkud, a digital edition of the Leningrad Codex, 2026Checked against a second encoding

יֹשֵׁב בְּסֵתֶר עֶלְיוֹן בְּצֵל שַׁדַּי יִתְלוֹנָן׃
אֹמַר לַיהוָה מַחְסִי וּמְצוּדָתִי אֱלֹהַי אֶבְטַח־בּוֹ׃
כִּי הוּא יַצִּילְךָ מִפַּח יָקוּשׁ מִדֶּבֶר הַוּוֹת׃
בְּאֶבְרָתוֹ יָסֶךְ לָךְ וְתַחַת־כְּנָפָיו תֶּחְסֶה צִנָּה וְסֹחֵרָה אֲמִתּוֹ׃
לֹא־תִירָא מִפַּחַד לָיְלָה מֵחֵץ יָעוּף יוֹמָם׃
מִדֶּבֶר בָּאֹפֶל יַהֲלֹךְ מִקֶּטֶב יָשׁוּד צָהֳרָיִם׃
יִפֹּל מִצִּדְּךָ אֶלֶף וּרְבָבָה מִימִינֶךָ אֵלֶיךָ לֹא יִגָּשׁ׃
רַק בְּעֵינֶיךָ תַבִּיט וְשִׁלֻּמַת רְשָׁעִים תִּרְאֶה׃
כִּי־אַתָּה יְהוָה מַחְסִי עֶלְיוֹן שַׂמְתָּ מְעוֹנֶךָ׃
לֹא־תְאֻנֶּה אֵלֶיךָ רָעָה וְנֶגַע לֹא־יִקְרַב בְּאָהֳלֶךָ׃
כִּי מַלְאָכָיו יְצַוֶּה־לָּךְ לִשְׁמָרְךָ בְּכָל־דְּרָכֶיךָ׃
עַל־כַּפַּיִם יִשָּׂאוּנְךָ פֶּן־תִּגֹּף בָּאֶבֶן רַגְלֶךָ׃
עַל־שַׁחַל וָפֶתֶן תִּדְרֹךְ תִּרְמֹס כְּפִיר וְתַנִּין׃
כִּי בִי חָשַׁק וַאֲפַלְּטֵהוּ אֲשַׂגְּבֵהוּ כִּי־יָדַע שְׁמִי׃
יִקְרָאֵנִי וְאֶעֱנֵהוּ עִמּוֹ־אָנֹכִי בְצָרָה אֲחַלְּצֵהוּ וַאֲכַבְּדֵהוּ׃
אֹרֶךְ יָמִים אַשְׂבִּיעֵהוּ וְאַרְאֵהוּ בִּישׁוּעָתִי׃

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Wording and scope vary between editions and between communities, so each edition here is named and this entry makes no claim about which form is right in a given setting. The English keeps the line breaks of one digitisation of the 1917 volume. The second, which it was checked against, stores each verse as running text, so it confirms the words and cannot confirm where a line ends.

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