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 leader of the music. A psalm of David.” In thee, O LORD! do I trust; let me never be put to shame; According to thy goodness deliver 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.

Bow down thine ear to me; help me speedily! Be to me a strong rock, a high fortress, for my deliverance!

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

For thou art my rock and my high fortress; Be thou also my guide, and lead me, for thy name's sake!

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

Draw me out of the net which they have secretly laid for me, For thou art my strength!

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

Into thy hand I commit my life; Thou wilt deliver me, O LORD, thou God of truth!

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

I hate those who regard lying vanities, And put my 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 thy mercy, That thou hast looked upon my trouble, And hast had regard to my distress;

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.

That thou hast not given me up to the hands of my enemies, But hast 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.

Have mercy upon me, O LORD! for I am in trouble! My face is consumed with grief; Yea, my spirit and my body.

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 sorrow, And my years with sighing; My strength faileth by reason of my affliction, And my bones are consumed on account of all my enemies.

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 have become the scorn of my neighbors, And the terror of my acquaintance; They who see me abroad flee from me.

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

I am forgotten like 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,

I hear the slander of many; fear is on every side; For they take counsel together against me; They devise to take away my life.

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

But I trust in thee, O Jehovah! I say, “Thou art my God!”

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

My destiny is in thy hand; Deliver me from the power of my enemies and persecutors!

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

Let thy face shine upon thy servant, And save me through 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 put to shame, O LORD! for I have called upon thee; Let the wicked be put to shame; Let them be silenced 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 lying lips be put to silence, Which speak proud things against the righteous, With haughtiness and contempt!

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 thy goodness, which thou treasurest up for them that fear thee; Which thou showest to them that trust in thee, 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.

Thou hidest them in the secret place of thy presence from the machinations of men; Thou shelterest them in thy pavilion from the violence of tongues.

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

Praised be the LORD; for he hath shown me his wonderful kindness, As 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.

I said in my distress, “I am cut off from before thine eyes;” But thou didst hear the voice of my supplication, When I cried unto 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 servants; For the LORD preserveth the faithful, And requiteth the proud in full measure!

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

Be of good courage; let your hearts be strong, All ye who trust in the LORD!