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 the Overseer. — A Psalm of David. In Thee, O Jehovah, I have trusted, Let me not be ashamed to the age, In Thy righteousness 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 unto me Thine ear hastily, deliver me, Be to me for a strong rock, For a house of bulwarks 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 my rock and my bulwark [art] Thou, For Thy name's sake lead me and tend me.

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

Bring me out from the net that they hid for me, For Thou [art] my strength.

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

Into Thy hand I commit my spirit, Thou hast redeemed me, Jehovah God of truth.

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

I have hated the observers of lying vanities, And I toward Jehovah have been confident.

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 rejoice, and am glad in Thy kindness, In that Thou hast seen mine affliction, Thou hast known in adversities my soul.

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, Into the hand of an enemy, Thou hast caused my feet to stand in a broad place.

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

Favour me, O Jehovah, for distress [is] to me, Mine eye, my soul, and my body Have become old by provocation.

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 hath been consumed in sorrow And my years in sighing. Feeble because of mine iniquity hath been my strength, And my bones have become old.

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.

Among all mine adversaries I have been a reproach, And to my neighbours exceedingly, And a fear to mine acquaintances, Those seeing 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 have been forgotten as dead out of mind, I have been as a perishing 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 an evil account of many, Fear [is] round about. In their being united against me, To take my life they have devised,

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

And I on Thee — I have trusted, O Jehovah, I have said, 'Thou [art] my God.'

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

In Thy hand [are] my times, Deliver me from the hand of my enemies, And from my pursuers.

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

Cause Thy face to shine on Thy servant, Save me in Thy kindness.

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)

O Jehovah, let me not be ashamed, For I have called Thee, let the wicked be ashamed, Let them become silent to Sheol. (Sheol h7585)

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

Let lips of falsehood become dumb, That are speaking against the righteous, Ancient sayings, in pride and contempt.

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 abundant is Thy goodness, That Thou hast laid up for those fearing Thee,

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 hast wrought for those trusting in Thee, Before sons of men. Thou hidest them in the secret place of Thy presence, From artifices of man, Thou concealest them in a tabernacle, From the strife of tongues.

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

Blessed [is] Jehovah, For He hath made marvellous His kindness To me in a city of bulwarks.

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.

And I — I have said in my haste, 'I have been cut off from before Thine eyes,' But Thou hast heard the voice of my supplications, In my crying unto 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.

Love Jehovah, all ye His saints, Jehovah is keeping the faithful, And recompensing abundantly a proud doer.

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

Be strong, and He strengtheneth your heart, All ye who are waiting for Jehovah!