< Psalms 31 >
1 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.
For the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. In You, O LORD, I have taken refuge; let me never be put to shame; save me by Your righteousness.
2 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.
Incline Your ear to me; come quickly to my rescue. Be my rock of refuge, the stronghold of my deliverance.
3 For you are my strength and my refuge; and you shall guide me for your name's sake, and maintain me.
For You are my rock and my fortress; lead me and guide me for the sake of Your name.
4 You shall bring me out of the snare which they have hidden for me; for you, O Lord, are my defender.
You free me from the net laid out for me, for You are my refuge.
5 Into your hands I will commit my spirit: you have redeemed me, O Lord God of truth.
Into Your hands I commit my spirit; You have redeemed me, O LORD, God of truth.
6 You has hated them that idly persist in vanities: but I have hoped in the Lord.
I hate those who cling to worthless idols, but in the LORD I trust.
7 I will exult and be glad in your mercy: for you have looked upon mine affliction; you have saved my soul from distresses.
I will be glad and rejoice in Your loving devotion, for You have seen my affliction; You have known the anguish of my soul.
8 And you have not shut me up into the hands of the enemy: you have set my feet in a wide place.
You have not delivered me to the enemy; You have set my feet in the open.
9 Pity me, O Lord, for I am afflicted: my eye is troubled with indignation, my soul and by belly.
Be merciful to me, O LORD, for I am in distress; my eyes fail from sorrow, my soul and body as well.
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 is consumed with grief and my years with groaning; my iniquity has drained my strength, and my bones are wasting away.
11 I became a reproach among all mine enemies, but exceedingly so to my neighbors, and a fear to mine acquaintance: they that saw me without fled from me.
Among all my enemies I am a disgrace, and among my neighbors even more. I am dreaded by my friends— they flee when they see me on the street.
12 I have been forgotten as a dead man out of mind: I am become as a broken vessel.
I am forgotten like a dead man, out of mind. I am like a broken vessel.
13 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.
For I hear the slander of many; there is terror on every side. They conspire against me and plot to take my life.
14 But I hoped in you, O Lord: I said, You are my God.
But I trust in You, O LORD; I say, “You are my God.”
15 My lots are in your hands: deliver me from the hand of mine enemies,
My times are in Your hands; deliver me from my enemies and from those who pursue me.
16 and from them that persecute me. Make your face to shine upon your servant: save me in your mercy.
Make Your face shine on Your servant; save me by Your loving devotion.
17 O Lord, let me not be ashamed, for I have called upon you: let the ungodly be ashamed, and brought down to Hades. (Sheol )
O LORD, let me not be ashamed, for I have called on You. Let the wicked be put to shame; let them lie silent in Sheol. (Sheol )
18 Let the deceitful lips become dumb, which speak iniquity against the righteous with pride and scorn.
May lying lips be silenced— lips that speak with arrogance against the righteous, full of pride and contempt.
19 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.
How great is Your goodness which You have laid up for those who fear You, which You have bestowed before the sons of men on those who take refuge in You!
20 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.
You hide them in the secret place of Your presence from the schemes of men. You conceal them in Your shelter from accusing tongues.
21 Blessed be the Lord: for he has magnified his mercy in a fortified city.
Blessed be the LORD, for He has shown me His loving devotion in a city under siege.
22 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.
In my alarm I said, “I am cut off from Your sight!” But You heard my plea for mercy when I called to You for help.
23 Love the Lord, all you his saints: for the Lord seeks for truth, and renders [a reward] to them that deal very proudly.
Love the LORD, all His saints. The LORD preserves the faithful, but fully repays the arrogant.
24 Be of good courage, and let your heart be strengthened, all you that hope in the Lord.
Be strong and courageous, all you who hope in the LORD.