Psalms 31

1 TO THE OVERSEER. A PSALM OF DAVID. In You, O YHWH, I have trusted, Do not let me be ashamed for all time, In Your righteousness deliver 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 quickly, deliver me, Be to me for a strong rock, For a house of bulwarks 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 rock and my bulwark, For Your Name’s sake lead me and tend me.

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

4 Bring me out from the net that they hid for me, For You [are] my strength.

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

5 Into Your hand I commit my spirit, You have redeemed me, YHWH God of truth.

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

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

Thou hast hated them that regard vanities, to no purpose. But I have hoped in the Lord:

7 I rejoice, and am glad in Your kindness, In that You have seen my affliction, You have known my soul in adversities.

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 hand of an enemy, You have caused my feet to stand in a broad place.

And thou hast not shut me up in the hands of the enemy: thou hast set my feet in a spacious place.

9 Favor me, O YHWH, for distress [is] to me, My eye, my soul, and my body Have become old by provocation.

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 has been consumed in sorrow And my years in sighing. My strength has been feeble because of my iniquity, And my bones have become old.

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 have been a reproach among all my adversaries, And to my neighbors exceedingly, And a fear to my acquaintances, Those seeing 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 dead, out of mind, I have been as a perishing vessel.

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

13 For I have heard an evil account of many, Fear [is] all around. In their being united against me, They have devised 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 And I have trusted on You, O YHWH, I have said, “You [are] my God.”

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

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

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

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

Make thy face to shine upon thy servant; save me in thy mercy.

17 O YHWH, do not let me be ashamed, For I have called You, let the wicked be ashamed, Let them become silent to Sheol. (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 lips of falsehood become mute, That are speaking against the righteous, Ancient sayings, in pride and contempt.

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

19 How abundant is Your goodness, That You have laid up for those fearing You, You have worked for those trusting in You, Before 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 hide them in the secret place of Your presence, From schemes of man, You conceal them in a dwelling place, From the strife 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 [is] YHWH, For He has made His kindness marvelous To me in a city of bulwarks.

Blessed be the Lord, for he hath shewn his wonderful mercy to me in a fortified city.

22 And I have said in my haste, “I have been cut off from before Your eyes,” But You have heard the voice of my supplications, In my crying 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 YHWH, all you His saints, YHWH is keeping the faithful, And repaying a proud doer abundantly.

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

24 Be strong, and He strengthens your heart, All you who are waiting for YHWH!

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