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.

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.

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

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.

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

For you are my strength and my refuge; and you shall guide me for your name's sake, and maintain me.

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

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

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

Into your hands I will 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.

You has hated them that idly persist in vanities: 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 exult and be glad in your mercy: for you have looked upon mine affliction; you have saved my soul from 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 you have not shut me up into the hands of the enemy: you have set my feet in a wide place.

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

Pity me, O Lord, for I am afflicted: my eye is troubled with indignation, my soul and by 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 groanings: my strength has been weakened through poverty, and my bones are troubled.

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 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.

12 I have been forgotten as dead, out of mind, I have been as a perishing vessel.

I have been forgotten as a dead man out of mind: I am become as 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 heard the slander of many that lived round about: when they were gathered together against me, they took counsel to take my life.

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

But I hoped 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 lots are in your hands: deliver me from the hand of mine enemies,

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

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

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)

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

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

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.

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.

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 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.

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 magnified his mercy 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 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.

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

Love the Lord, all you his saints: for the Lord seeks for truth, and renders [a reward] to them that deal very proudly.

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

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