Psalms 31

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

For the chief musician. A psalm of David. In you, Yahweh, I take refuge; never let me be humiliated. Rescue me in your righteousness.

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

Listen to me; rescue me quickly; be my rock of refuge, a stronghold 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 rock and my fortress; therefore for your name's sake, lead and guide me.

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

Pluck me out of the net that they have hidden for me, for you are my refuge.

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

Into your hands I entrust my spirit; you will redeem me, Yahweh, God of trustworthiness.

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

I hate those who serve worthless idols, but I trust in Yahweh.

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 your covenant faithfulness, for you saw my affliction; you knew the distress 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.

You have not given me into the hand of my enemy. You have set my feet in a wide open 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.

Have mercy upon me, Yahweh, for I am in distress; my eyes grow weary with grief with my soul and my body.

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 weary with sorrow and my years with groaning. My strength fails because of my sin, and my bones are wasting away.

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.

Because of all my enemies, people disdain me; my neighbors are appalled at my situation, and those who know me are horrified. Those who see me in the street run from me.

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

I am forgotten as a dead man whom no one thinks about. I am like a broken pot.

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 whispering of many, terrifying news from every side as they plot 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 trust in you, Yahweh; I say, “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 times are in your hand. Rescue me from the hands of my enemies and from those who pursue me.

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

Make your face shine on your servant; save me in your covenant faithfulness.

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)

Do not let me be humiliated, Yahweh; for I call out to you! May the wicked be humiliated! May they 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.

May lying lips be silenced that speak against the righteous defiantly with arrogance and contempt.

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 great is your goodness that you have stored up for those who revere you, that you perform for those who take refuge in you before all the children of mankind!

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.

In the shelter of your presence, you hide them from the plots of men. You hide them in a shelter from the violence of tongues.

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

Blessed be Yahweh, for he showed me his marvelous covenant faithfulness when I was in a besieged 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.

Though I said in my haste, “I am cut off from your eyes,” yet you heard my plea for help 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.

Oh, love Yahweh, all you faithful followers. Yahweh protects the faithful, but he pays back the arrogant in full.

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

Be strong and confident, all you who trust in Yahweh for help.