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.

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 quickly, deliver me, Be to me for a strong rock, For a house of bulwarks to save me.

Bow down your ear to me; deliver me speedily: be you my strong rock, for an house of defense to save me.

3 For You [are] my rock and my bulwark, For Your Name’s sake lead me and tend me.

For you are my rock and my fortress; therefore for your name’s sake lead me, and guide me.

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

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

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

Into your hand I commit my spirit: you have redeemed me, O LORD God of truth.

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

I have hated them that regard lying vanities: but I trust 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 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 hand of an enemy, You have caused my feet to stand in a broad place.

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

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 in trouble: my eye is consumed with grief, yes, 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 spent with grief, and my years with sighing: my strength fails because of my iniquity, and my bones are consumed.

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 was a reproach among all my enemies, but especially among my neighbors, and a fear to my acquaintance: they that did see 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 a dead man out of mind: I am like a broken vessel.

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 slander of many: fear was on every side: while they took counsel together against me, they devised to take away my life.

14 And I have trusted on You, O YHWH, I have said, “You [are] my God.”

But I trusted in you, O LORD: I said, You are my God.

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

My times are in your hand: deliver me from the hand of my enemies, and from them that persecute me.

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

Make your face to shine on your servant: save me for your mercies’ sake.

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

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

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

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.

Oh how great is your goodness, which you have laid up for them that fear you; which you have worked for them that trust in you before 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.

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 [is] YHWH, For He has made His kindness marvelous To me in a city of bulwarks.

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

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 to you.

23 Love YHWH, all you His saints, YHWH is keeping the faithful, And repaying a proud doer abundantly.

O love the LORD, all you his saints: for the LORD preserves the faithful, and plentifully rewards the proud doer.

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

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