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 by David. In you, LORD, I take refuge. Let me never be disappointed. 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 to me a strong rock, a 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 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.

Pluck me out of the net that they have laid secretly for me, for you are my stronghold.

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

Into your hand I commend my spirit. You redeem me, LORD, 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, 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 loving kindness, for you have seen my affliction. 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.

You have not shut me up into the hand of the enemy. You have 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 on me, LORD, for I am in distress. My eye, my soul, and my body waste away with grief.

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, my years with sighing. My strength fails because of my iniquity. 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 my adversaries I have become utterly contemptible to my neighbours, a horror to my acquaintances. Those who saw me on the street fled from me.

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

I am forgotten from their hearts like a dead man. I am like broken pottery.

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, terror on every side, while they conspire together against me, they plot 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 you, 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 those who 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 in your loving kindness.

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 disappointed, LORD, for I have called on you. Let the wicked be disappointed. 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 mute, 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 your goodness, which you have laid up for those who fear you, which you have worked for those who take refuge 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.

In the shelter of your presence you will hide them from the plotting of man. You will keep them secretly in a dwelling away from the strife of tongues.

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

Praise be to the LORD, for he has shown me his marvellous loving 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.

As for me, I said in my haste, “I am cut off from before your eyes.” Nevertheless you heard the voice of my petitions when I cried to you.

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

Oh love the LORD, all you his saints! The LORD preserves the faithful, and fully recompenses him who behaves arrogantly.

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

Be strong, and let your heart take courage, all you who hope in the LORD.