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.

To him that excelleth. A Psalme of David. In thee, O Lord, haue I put my trust: let mee neuer be confounded: deliuer me in thy righteousnesse.

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.

Bowe downe thine eare to me: make haste to deliuer mee: be vnto me a stronge rocke, and an house of defence to saue 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 rocke and my fortresse: therefore for thy Names sake direct mee and guide me.

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

Drawe mee out of the nette, that they haue layde priuilie for mee: for thou art my strength.

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

Into thine hand I commend my spirit: for thou hast redeemed me, O Lord God of trueth.

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

I haue hated them that giue them selues to deceitfull vanities: for I trust 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 wil be glad and reioyce in thy mercie: for thou hast seene my trouble: thou hast knowen my soule in aduersities,

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 vp in the hand of the enemie, but hast set my feete at large.

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

Haue mercie vpon mee, O Lord: for I am in trouble: mine eye, my soule and my bellie are consumed with griefe.

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 heauinesse, and my yeeres with mourning: my strength faileth for my paine, and my bones are consumed.

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 was a reproch among all mine enemies, but specially among my neighbours: and a feare to mine acquaintance, who seeing me in the streete, 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 a dead man out of minde: I am like a broken vessell.

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 haue heard the rayling of great men: feare was on euery side, while they conspired together against mee, and consulted to take my life.

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

But I trusted 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 times are in thine hande: deliuer mee from the hande of mine 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 vpon thy seruant, and saue me through thy mercie.

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 haue called vpon thee: let the wicked bee put to confusion, and to silence in the graue. (Sheol h7585)

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

Let the lying lips be made dumme, which cruelly, proudly and spitefully speake against the righteous.

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.

Howe great is thy goodnesse, which thou hast layde vp for them, that feare thee! and done to them, that trust in thee, euen before the sonnes 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 doest hide them priuily in thy presence from the pride of men: thou keepest them secretly in thy Tabernacle from the strife of tongues.

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

Blessed be the Lord: for hee hath shewed his marueilous kindenesse toward me in a strong citie.

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.

Though I said in mine haste, I am cast out of thy sight, yet thou heardest the voyce of my prayer, when I cryed vnto 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.

Loue ye the Lord all his Saintes: for the Lord preserueth the faithfull, and rewardeth abundantly the proud doer.

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

All ye that trust in the Lord, be strong, and he shall establish your heart.