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 Chief Musician. A Psalm of David. In thee, O LORD, do I put my trust; let me never be ashamed: deliver me in thy 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 thine ear unto me; deliver me speedily: be thou to me a strong rock, an house of defence 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 rock and my fortress; therefore for thy 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.

Pluck me out of the net that they have laid privily for me; for thou art my strong hold.

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

Into thine hand I commend my spirit: thou hast redeemed 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 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 thy mercy: for thou hast seen my affliction; thou hast 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 thou hast not shut me up into the hand of the enemy; thou hast set my feet in a large 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 distress: mine eye wasteth away with grief, [yea], my soul 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 spent with sorrow, and my years with sighing: my strength faileth because of mine iniquity, and my bones are wasted 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.

Because of all mine adversaries I am become a reproach, yea, unto my neighbours exceedingly, and a fear to mine 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 defaming of many, terror 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 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 times are in thy hand: deliver me from the hand of mine 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 lovingkindness.

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 he ashamed, O LORD; for I have called upon thee: let the wicked be ashamed, let them be silent in Sheol. (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 dumb; which speak against the righteous insolently, with pride 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.

Oh how great is thy goodness, which thou hast laid up for them that fear thee, which thou hast wrought for them that put their 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.

In the covert of thy presence shalt thou hide them from the plottings of man: thou shalt 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 hath shewed me his marvelous lovingkindness 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.

As for me, I said in my haste, I am cut off from before thine eyes: nevertheless thou heardest the voice of my supplications 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 saints: the LORD preserveth the faithful, and plentifully rewardeth the proud doer.

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

Be strong, and let your heart take courage, all ye that hope in the LORD.