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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Into your hands, I commend 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

12 I have been forgotten as a dead man out of mind: I am become as a broken vessel.

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

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 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 h7585)

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)

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

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

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 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.

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

21 Blessed be the Lord: for he has magnified his mercy in a fortified city.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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