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 victorie, the salm of Dauid. Lord, Y hopide in thee, be Y not schent with outen ende; delyuere thou me in thi riytfulnesse.
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.
Bouwe doun thin eere to me; haaste thou to delyuere me. Be thou to me in to God defendere, and in to an hows of refuyt; that thou make me saaf.
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 strengthe and my refuyt; and for thi name thou schalt lede me forth, and schalt nurische me.
4 You shall bring me out of the snare which they have hidden for me; for you, O Lord, are my defender.
Thou schalt lede me out of the snare, which thei hidden to me; for thou art my defendere.
5 Into your hands I will commit my spirit: you have redeemed me, O Lord God of truth.
I bitake my spirit in to thin hondis; Lord God of treuthe, thou hast ayen bouyt me.
6 You has hated them that idly persist in vanities: but I have hoped in the Lord.
Thou hatist hem that kepen vanytees superfluli.
7 I will exult and be glad in your mercy: for you have looked upon mine affliction; you have saved my soul from distresses.
Forsothe Y hopide in the Lord; Y schal haue fulli ioie, and schal be glad in thi merci. For thou byheldist my mekenesse; thou sauedist my lijf fro nedis.
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 closidist not me togidere withynne the hondis of the enemy; thou hast sett my feet in a large place.
9 Pity me, O Lord, for I am afflicted: my eye is troubled with indignation, my soul and by belly.
Lord, haue thou merci on me, for Y am troblid; myn iye is troblid in ire, my soule and my wombe `ben troblid.
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 whi my lijf failide in sorewe; and my yeeris in weilynges. Mi vertu is maad feble in pouert; and my boonys ben disturblid.
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.
Ouer alle myn enemyes Y am maad schenship greetli to my neiyboris; and drede to my knowun. Thei that sien me with outforth, fledden fro me; Y am youun to foryetyng,
12 I have been forgotten as a dead man out of mind: I am become as a broken vessel.
as a deed man fro herte. I am maad as a lorun 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 Y herde dispisyng of many men dwellynge in cumpas. In that thing the while thei camen togidere ayens me; thei counceliden to take my lijf.
14 But I hoped in you, O Lord: I said, You are my God.
But, Lord, Y hopide in thee; Y seide, Thou art my God; my tymes ben in thin hondis.
15 My lots are in your hands: deliver me from the hand of mine enemies,
Delyuer thou me fro the hondis of mynen enemyes; and fro hem that pursuen me.
16 and from them that persecute me. Make your face to shine upon your servant: save me in your mercy.
Make thou cleer thi face on thi seruaunt; Lord, make thou me saaf in thi merci;
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)
be Y not schent, for Y inwardli clepide thee. Unpitouse men be aschamed, and be led forth in to helle; (Sheol h7585)
18 Let the deceitful lips become dumb, which speak iniquity against the righteous with pride and scorn.
gileful lippys be maad doumbe. That speken wickidnesse ayens a iust man; in pride, and in mysusyng.
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.
Lord, the multitude of thi swetnesse is ful greet; which thou hast hid to men dredynge thee. Thou hast maad a perfit thing to hem, that hopen in thee; in the siyt of the sones 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 schalt hide hem in the priuyte of thi face; fro disturblyng of men. Thou schalt defende hem in thi tabernacle; fro ayenseiyng of tungis.
21 Blessed be the Lord: for he has magnified his mercy in a fortified city.
Blessid be the Lord; for he hath maad wondurful his merci to me in a strengthid citee.
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.
Forsothe Y seide in the passyng of my soule; Y am cast out fro the face of thin iyen. Therfor thou herdist the vois of my preier; while Y criede 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.
Alle ye hooli men of the Lord, loue hym; for the Lord schal seke treuthe, and he schal yelde plenteuousli to hem that doen pride.
24 Be of good courage, and let your heart be strengthened, all you that hope in the Lord.
Alle ye that hopen in the Lord, do manli; and youre herte be coumfortid.
