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.

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

Bow down your ear to me; deliver me speedily: be you my strong rock, for an house of defence 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 you are my rock and my fortress; therefore for your name's sake lead me, 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.

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

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

Into your hand 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 have hated them that regard lying vanities: but 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 will be glad and rejoice in your mercy: for you have considered my trouble; you have known my soul in adversities;

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

And have not shut me up into the hand of the enemy: you have set my feet in a large room.

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

Have mercy upon me, O LORD, for I am in trouble: mine eye is consumed with grief, yea, 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 spent with grief, and my years with sighing: my strength fails because of mine iniquity, 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 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.

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 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 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.

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

But I trusted 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 times are in your hand: deliver me from the hand 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 your face to shine upon your servant: save me for your mercies' sake.

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 ashamed, O LORD; for I have called upon you: let the wicked be ashamed, and let them be silent in the grave. (Sheol h7585)

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

Let the lying lips be put to silence; which speak grievous things proudly and contemptuously 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.

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!

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 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.

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

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

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.

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 you his saints: for the LORD perserves the faithful, and plentifully rewards the proud doer.

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

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