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 for David, in an ecstasy. In thee, O Lord, have I hoped, let me never be confounded: deliver me in thy justice.

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.

Bow down thy ear to me: make haste to deliver me. Be thou unto me a God, a protector, and a house of refuge, to save me.

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

For thou art my strength and my refuge; and for thy name’s sake thou wilt 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.

Thou wilt bring me out of this snare, which they have hidden for me: for thou art my protector.

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

Into thy hands I commend my spirit: thou hast redeemed me, O Lord, the God of truth.

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

Thou hast hated them that regard vanities, 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 be glad and rejoice in thy mercy. For thou best regarded my humility, thou hast saved my soul out of distresses.

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

And thou hast not shut me up in the hands of the enemy: thou hast 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, O Lord, for I am afflicted: my eye is troubled with wrath, my soul, and my belly:

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 wasted with grief: and my years in sighs. My strength is weakened through poverty and my bones are 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 am become a reproach among all my enemies, and very much to my neighbours; and a fear to my acquaintance. They that saw me without fled from me.

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

I am forgotten as one dead from the heart. I am become as a vessel that is destroyed.

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 blame of many that dwell round about. While they assembled together against me, they consulted to take away my life.

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

But I have put my trust in thee, O Lord: I said: Thou art my God.

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

My lots are in thy hands. Deliver me out of the hands of my enemies; and from them that persecute me.

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

Make thy face to shine upon thy servant; save me in thy 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)

Let me not be confounded, O Lord, for I have called upon thee. Let the wicked be ashamed, and be brought down to hell. (Sheol h7585)

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

Let deceitful lips be made dumb. Which speak iniquity against the just, with pride and abuse.

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.

O how great is the multitude of thy sweetness, O Lord, which thou hast hidden for them that fear thee! Which thou hast wrought for them that hope in thee, 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.

Thou shalt hide them in the secret of thy face, from the disturbance of men. Thou shalt protect them in thy tabernacle from the contradiction of tongues.

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

Blessed be the Lord, for he hath shewn 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 am cast away from before thy eyes. Therefore thou hast heard the voice of my prayer, when I cried to thee.

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

O love the Lord, all ye his saints: for the Lord will require truth, and will repay them abundantly that act proudly.

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

Do ye manfully, and let your heart be strengthened, all ye that hope in the Lord.