Psalms 31

1 Unto the end. A Psalm of David according to an ecstasy. In you, Lord, I have hoped; let me never be confounded. In your justice, deliver me.

TO THE OVERSEER. A PSALM OF DAVID. In You, O YHWH, I have trusted, Do not let me be ashamed for all time, In Your righteousness deliver me.

2 Incline your ear to me. Hasten to rescue me. Be for me a protector God and a house of refuge, so as to accomplish my salvation.

Incline Your ear to me quickly, deliver me, Be to me for a strong rock, For a house of bulwarks to save me.

3 For you are my strength and my refuge; and for the sake of your name, you will lead me and nourish me.

For You [are] my rock and my bulwark, For Your Name’s sake lead me and tend me.

4 You will lead me out of this snare, which they have hidden for me. For you are my protector.

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

5 Into your hands, I commend my spirit. You have redeemed me, O Lord, God of truth.

Into Your hand I commit my spirit, You have redeemed me, YHWH God of truth.

6 You have hated those who practice emptiness to no purpose. But I have hoped in the Lord.

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

7 I will exult and rejoice in your mercy. For you have looked upon my humility; you have saved my soul from needfulness.

I rejoice, and am glad in Your kindness, In that You have seen my affliction, You have known my soul in adversities.

8 And you have not enclosed me in the hands of the enemy. You have set my feet in a spacious place.

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

9 Have mercy on me, Lord, for I am troubled. My eye has been disturbed by wrath, along with my soul and my gut.

Favor me, O YHWH, for distress [is] to me, My eye, my soul, and my body Have become old by provocation.

10 For my life has fallen into sorrow, and my years into sighing. My virtue has been weakened in poverty, and my bones have been disturbed.

For my life has been consumed in sorrow And my years in sighing. My strength has been feeble because of my iniquity, And my bones have become old.

11 I have become a disgrace among all my enemies, and even more so to my neighbors, and a dread to my acquaintances. Those who catch sight of me, flee away from me.

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

12 I have become forgotten, like one dead to the heart. I have become like a damaged utensil.

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

13 For I have heard the harsh criticism of many who linger in the area. While assembled together against me in that place, they deliberated on how to take away my life.

For I have heard an evil account of many, Fear [is] all around. In their being united against me, They have devised to take my life,

14 But I have hoped in you, O Lord. I said, “You are my God.”

And I have trusted on You, O YHWH, I have said, “You [are] my God.”

15 My fate is in your hands. Rescue me from the hand of my enemies and from those who are persecuting me.

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

16 Shine your face upon your servant. Save me in your mercy.

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

17 Do not let me be confounded, Lord, for I have called upon you. Let the impious be ashamed and be drawn down into Hell. (Sheol h7585)

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

18 May deceitful lips be silenced: those that speak iniquity against the just, in arrogance and in abusiveness.

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

19 How great is the multitude of your sweetness, O Lord, which you keep hidden for those who fear you, which you have perfected for those who hope in you, in the sight of the sons of men.

How abundant is Your goodness, That You have laid up for those fearing You, You have worked for those trusting in You, Before sons of men.

20 You hide them in the concealment of your face, from the disturbance of men. You protect them in your tabernacle, from the contradiction of tongues.

You hide them in the secret place of Your presence, From schemes of man, You conceal them in a dwelling place, From the strife of tongues.

21 Blessed is the Lord. For he has shown his wonderful mercy to me, in a fortified city.

Blessed [is] YHWH, For He has made His kindness marvelous To me in a city of bulwarks.

22 But I said in the excess of my mind: “I have been cast away from the glance of your eyes.” And so, you heeded the voice of my prayer, while I was still crying out to you.

And I have said in my haste, “I have been cut off from before Your eyes,” But You have heard the voice of my supplications, In my crying to You.

23 Love the Lord, all you his saints. For the Lord will require truth, and he will abundantly repay those who act with arrogance.

Love YHWH, all you His saints, YHWH is keeping the faithful, And repaying a proud doer abundantly.

24 Act manfully, and let your heart be strengthened, all you who hope in the Lord.

Be strong, and He strengthens your heart, All you who are waiting for YHWH!