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. A psalm of David. In you, O Lord, I take refuge; let me never be put to shame. Rescue me in your faithfulness;

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 to me your ear. Deliver me speedily. Be to me a rock of defence, a fortified house, to save me.

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

For my rock and my fortress are you; lead me and guide me so your name will be honored.

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

Draw me out of the net they have hid for me, for you yourself are my refuge.

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

Into your hand I commend my spirit: you ransom me, Lord, faithful God.

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

I hate those devoted to worthless idols; 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 rejoice and be glad in your love, because you have looked on my misery, and cared for me in 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.

You have not given me into the enemy’s hand, you have 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.

Be gracious to me, Lord, for I am distressed; my eye is wasted away with sorrow.

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 consumed with grief, and my years with sighing. My strength is broken with misery, my bones waste away.

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.

The scorn of all my foes, the butt of my neighbors am I, a terror to my acquaintance. At the sight of me in the street people turn quickly away.

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

I am clean forgotten like the dead, am become like a ruined 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 whispers of many – terror on every side – scheming together against me, plotting to take my life.

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

But my trust is in you, Lord. “You are my God,” I say;

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, save me from the hand of the foes who pursue 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 in your love.

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)

Put me not, O Lord, to shame, for I have called upon you. Let the wicked be put to shame silent in Sheol. (Sheol h7585)

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

Strike the false lips dumb, that speak proudly 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.

How great is the goodness you have treasured for those who fear you, and wrought for those who take refuge in you, in plain sight of all!

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.

In your sheltering wings you hide them from plottings of people, you keep them safe in a bower from the chiding of tongues.

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

Blest be the Lord for the wonderful love he has shown me in time of distress.

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 had said in panic, “I am driven clean out of your sight.” But you heard my plea, when I cried to you for help.

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

Love the Lord, all you faithful; the Lord protects the loyal, but repays the haughty in full.

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

Let your hearts be courageous and strong, all you who wait on the Lord.