Psalms 31

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

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

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

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

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

For you are my strength and my refuge; and you shall guide me for your name's sake, and maintain me.

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

You shall bring me out of the snare which they have hidden for me; for you, O Lord, are my defender.

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

Into your hands I will commit my spirit: you have redeemed me, O Lord God of truth.

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

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

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 exult and be glad in your mercy: for you have looked upon mine affliction; you have saved my soul from distresses.

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

And you have not shut me up into the hands of the enemy: you have set my feet in a wide place.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I have been forgotten as a dead man out of mind: I am become as 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 heard the slander of many that lived round about: when they were gathered together against me, they took counsel to take my life.

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

But I hoped in you, O Lord: I said, You are my God.

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

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

16 Make your face to shine upon your servant: save me for your mercies' sake.

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

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

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

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

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

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

How abundant is the multitude of your goodness, O Lord, which you have laid up for them that fear you! you have wrought [it] out for them that hope on you, in the presence of 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.

You will hide them in the secret of your presence from the vexation of man: you will screen them in a tabernacle from the contradiction of tongues.

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

Blessed be the Lord: for he has magnified his mercy in a fortified 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 unto you.

But I said in my extreme fear, I am cast out from the sight of your eyes: therefore you did listen, O Lord, to the voice of my supplication when I cried to you.

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

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

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

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