Psalms 31

1 For the end, a Psalm of David, [an utterance] of extreme fear. O Lord, I have hoped in thee; let me never be ashamed: deliver me in thy righteousness and rescue me.

To the Overseer. — A Psalm of David. In Thee, O Jehovah, I have trusted, Let me not be ashamed to the age, In Thy righteousness deliver me.

2 Incline thine ear to me; make haste to rescue me: be thou to me for a protecting God, and for a house of refuge to save me.

Incline unto me Thine ear hastily, deliver me, Be to me for a strong rock, For a house of bulwarks to save me.

3 For thou art my strength and my refuge; and thou shalt guide me for thy name's sake, and maintain me.

For my rock and my bulwark [art] Thou, For Thy name's sake lead me and tend me.

4 Thou shalt bring me out of the snare which they have hidden for me; for thou, O Lord, art my defender.

Bring me out from the net that they hid for me, For Thou [art] my strength.

5 Into thine hands I will commit my spirit: thou hast redeemed me, O Lord God of truth.

Into Thy hand I commit my spirit, Thou hast redeemed me, Jehovah God of truth.

6 Thou has hated them that idly persist in vanities: but I have hoped in the Lord.

I have hated the observers of lying vanities, And I toward Jehovah have been confident.

7 I will exult and be glad in thy mercy: for thou hast looked upon mine affliction; thou hast saved my soul from distresses.

I rejoice, and am glad in Thy kindness, In that Thou hast seen mine affliction, Thou hast known in adversities my soul.

8 And thou hast not shut me up into the hands of the enemy: thou hast set my feet in a wide place.

And Thou hast not shut me up, Into the hand of an enemy, Thou hast caused my feet to stand in a broad place.

9 Pity me, O Lord, for I am afflicted: my eye is troubled with indignation, my soul and by belly.

Favour me, O Jehovah, for distress [is] to me, Mine eye, my soul, and my body Have become old by provocation.

10 For my life is spent with grief, and my years with groanings: my strength has been weakened through poverty, and my bones are troubled.

For my life hath been consumed in sorrow And my years in sighing. Feeble because of mine iniquity hath been my strength, And my bones have become old.

11 I became a reproach among all mine enemies, but exceedingly so to my neighbours, and a fear to mine acquaintance: they that saw me without fled from me.

Among all mine adversaries I have been a reproach, And to my neighbours exceedingly, And a fear to mine acquaintances, Those seeing me without — fled from me.

12 I have been forgotten as a dead man out of mind: I am become as a broken vessel.

I have been forgotten as dead out of mind, I have been as a perishing vessel.

13 For I heard the slander of many that dwelt round about: when they were gathered together against me, they took counsel to take my life.

For I have heard an evil account of many, Fear [is] round about. In their being united against me, To take my life they have devised,

14 But I hoped in thee, O Lord: I said, Thou art my God.

And I on Thee — I have trusted, O Jehovah, I have said, 'Thou [art] my God.'

15 My lots are in thy hands: deliver me from the hand of mine enemies,

In Thy hand [are] my times, Deliver me from the hand of my enemies, And from my pursuers.

16 and from them that persecute me. Make thy face to shine upon thy servant: save me in thy mercy.

Cause Thy face to shine on Thy servant, Save me in Thy kindness.

17 O Lord, let me not be ashamed, for I have called upon thee: let the ungodly be ashamed, and brought down to Hades. (Sheol h7585)

O Jehovah, let me not be ashamed, For I have called Thee, let the wicked be ashamed, Let them become silent to Sheol. (Sheol h7585)

18 Let the deceitful lips become dumb, which speak iniquity against the righteous with pride and scorn.

Let lips of falsehood become dumb, That are speaking against the righteous, Ancient sayings, in pride and contempt.

19 How abundant is the multitude of thy goodness, O Lord, which thou hast laid up for them that fear thee! thou hast wrought [it] out for them that hope on thee, in the presence of the sons of men.

How abundant is Thy goodness, That Thou hast laid up for those fearing Thee,

20 Thou wilt hide them in the secret of thy presence from the vexation of man: thou wilt screen them in a tabernacle from the contradiction of tongues.

Thou hast wrought for those trusting in Thee, Before sons of men. Thou hidest them in the secret place of Thy presence, From artifices of man, Thou concealest them in a tabernacle, From the strife of tongues.

21 Blessed be the Lord: for he has magnified his mercy in a fortified city.

Blessed [is] Jehovah, For He hath made marvellous His kindness To me in a city of bulwarks.

22 But I said in my extreme fear, I am cast out from the sight of thine eyes: therefore thou didst hearken, O Lord, to the voice of my supplication when I cried to thee.

And I — I have said in my haste, 'I have been cut off from before Thine eyes,' But Thou hast heard the voice of my supplications, In my crying unto Thee.

23 Love the Lord, all ye his saints: for the Lord seeks for truth, and renders [a reward] to them that deal very proudly.

Love Jehovah, all ye His saints, Jehovah is keeping the faithful, And recompensing abundantly a proud doer.

24 Be of good courage, and let your heart be strengthened, all ye that hope in the Lord.

Be strong, and He strengtheneth your heart, All ye who are waiting for Jehovah!