Psalms 31

1 In you, O LORD, do I put my trust; let me never be ashamed: deliver me in your righteousness.

To the chief Musician. A Psalm of David. In thee, Jehovah, do I trust; let me never be ashamed: deliver me in thy righteousness.

2 Bow down your ear to me; deliver me speedily: be you my strong rock, for an house of defense to save me.

Incline thine ear to me, deliver me speedily; be a strong rock to me, a house of defence to save me.

3 For you are my rock and my fortress; therefore for your name’s sake lead me, and guide me.

For thou art my rock and my fortress; and, for thy name's sake, thou wilt lead me and guide me.

4 Pull me out of the net that they have laid privately for me: for you are my strength.

Draw me out of the net that they have hidden for me; for thou art my strength.

5 Into your hand I commit my spirit: you have redeemed me, O LORD God of truth.

Into thy hand I commit my spirit: thou hast redeemed me, Jehovah, [thou] God of truth.

6 I have hated them that regard lying vanities: but I trust in the LORD.

I have hated them that observe lying vanities; and as for me, I have confided in Jehovah.

7 I will be glad and rejoice in your mercy: for you have considered my trouble; you have known my soul in adversities;

I will be glad and rejoice in thy loving-kindness, for thou hast seen mine affliction; thou hast known the troubles of my soul,

8 And have not shut me up into the hand of the enemy: you have set my feet in a large room.

And hast not shut me up into the hand of the enemy: thou hast set my feet in a large place.

9 Have mercy on me, O LORD, for I am in trouble: my eye is consumed with grief, yes, my soul and my belly.

Be gracious unto me, Jehovah, for I am in trouble: mine eye wasteth away with vexation, my soul and my belly.

10 For my life is spent with grief, and my years with sighing: my strength fails because of my iniquity, and my bones are consumed.

For my life is spent with sorrow, and my years with sighing; my strength faileth through mine iniquity, and my bones are wasted.

11 I was a reproach among all my enemies, but especially among my neighbors, and a fear to my acquaintance: they that did see me without fled from me.

More than to all mine oppressors, I am become exceedingly a reproach, even to my neighbours, and a fear to mine acquaintance: they that see me without flee from me.

12 I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind: I am like a broken vessel.

I am forgotten in [their] heart as a dead man; I am become like a broken vessel.

13 For I have heard the slander of many: fear was on every side: while they took counsel together against me, they devised to take away my life.

For I have heard the slander of many — terror on every side — when they take counsel together against me: they plot to take away my life.

14 But I trusted in you, O LORD: I said, You are my God.

But I confided in thee, Jehovah; I said, thou art my God.

15 My times are in your hand: deliver me from the hand of my enemies, and from them that persecute me.

My times are in thy hand: deliver me from the hand of mine enemies, and from my persecutors.

16 Make your face to shine on your servant: save me for your mercies’ sake.

Make thy face to shine upon thy servant; save me in thy loving-kindness.

17 Let me not be ashamed, O LORD; for I have called on you: let the wicked be ashamed, and let them be silent in the grave. (Sheol h7585)

Jehovah, let me not be ashamed; for I have called upon thee: let the wicked be ashamed, let them be silent in Sheol. (Sheol h7585)

18 Let the lying lips be put to silence; which speak grievous things proudly and contemptuously against the righteous.

Let the lying lips become dumb, which speak insolently against the righteous in pride and contempt.

19 Oh how great is your goodness, which you have laid up for them that fear you; which you have worked for them that trust in you before the sons of men!

[Oh] how great is thy goodness, which thou hast laid up for them that fear thee, [which] thou hast wrought for them that trust in thee, before the sons of men!

20 You shall hide them in the secret of your presence from the pride of man: you shall keep them secretly in a pavilion from the strife of tongues.

Thou keepest them concealed in the secret of thy presence from the conspiracies of man; thou hidest them in a pavilion from the strife of tongues.

21 Blessed be the LORD: for he has showed me his marvelous kindness in a strong city.

Blessed be Jehovah; for he hath shewn me wondrously his loving-kindness in a strong city.

22 For I said in my haste, I am cut off from before your eyes: nevertheless you heard the voice of my supplications when I cried to you.

As for me, I said in my haste, I am cut off from before thine eyes; nevertheless thou heardest the voice of my supplications when I cried unto thee.

23 O love the LORD, all you his saints: for the LORD preserves the faithful, and plentifully rewards the proud doer.

Love Jehovah, all ye his saints. Jehovah preserveth the faithful, and plentifully requiteth the proud doer.

24 Be of good courage, and he shall strengthen your heart, all you that hope in the LORD.

Be strong, and let your heart take courage, all ye that hope in Jehovah.