Psalms 31
1 To the choirmaster a psalm of David. In you O Yahweh I have taken refuge may not I be ashamed for ever in righteousness your 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 to me - ear your quickly deliver me become of me - a rock of refuge a house of strongholds 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 [are] rock my and stronghold my you and for [the] sake of name your you guide me and you lead me.
For you are my strength and my refuge; and you shall guide me for your name's sake, and maintain me.
4 You will bring out me from [the] net which people have hidden for me for you [are] place of refuge my.
You shall bring me out of the snare which they have hidden for me; for you, O Lord, are my defender.
5 In hand your I entrust spirit my you have redeemed me O Yahweh God of faithfulness.
Into your hands I will commit my spirit: you have redeemed me, O Lord God of truth.
6 I hate those [who] keep vanities of falsehood and I to Yahweh I trust.
You has hated them that idly persist in vanities: but I have hoped in the Lord.
7 I will rejoice and I will be glad in covenant loyalty your that you saw affliction my you knew [the] troubles of self my.
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 not you delivered up me in [the] hand of an enemy you made stand in roomy place feet my.
And you have not shut me up into the hands of the enemy: you have set my feet in a wide place.
9 Show favor to me O Yahweh for it is distress to me it has wasted away with grief eye my being my and belly my.
Pity me, O Lord, for I am afflicted: my eye is troubled with indignation, my soul and by belly.
10 For they have wasted away in sorrow life my and years my with groaning it has failed by iniquity my strength my and bones my they have wasted away.
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 From all opposers my I have become a reproach and to neighbors my - exceedingly and a dread to acquaintances my [those who] see me in the street they flee 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 like a dead [person] from [the] heart I have become like a vessel [which] is destroyed.
I have been forgotten as a dead man out of mind: I am become as a broken vessel.
13 For I have heard - [the] slander of many [people] terror [is] from around about when they seated themselves together on me to take life my they plotted.
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 - on you I rely O Yahweh I say [are] God my you.
But I hoped in you, O Lord: I said, You are my God.
15 [are] in Hand your times my deliver me from [the] hand of enemies my and from pursuers my.
My lots are in your hands: deliver me from the hand of mine enemies,
16 Make shine! face your on servant your save me in covenant loyalty your.
and from them that persecute me. Make your face to shine upon your servant: save me in your mercy.
17 O Yahweh may not I be ashamed for I have called out to you may they be ashamed wicked [people] may they be 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 May they be dumb lips of falsehood which speak on [the] righteous arrogance with pride and contempt.
Let the deceitful lips become dumb, which speak iniquity against the righteous with pride and scorn.
19 How! great [is] goodness your which you have stored up for [those] fearing you [which] you have done for [those who] take refuge in you before [the] children of humankind.
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] hiding place of presence your from [the] conspiracies of man you hide them in a shelter from 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 [be] blessed Yahweh for he has made wonderful covenant loyalty his to me in a city of siege.
Blessed be the Lord: for he has magnified his mercy in a fortified city.
22 And I - I said when was hastening I I have been cut off from before eyes your nevertheless you heard [the] sound of supplications my when cried for help I 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 Yahweh O all faithful [people] his faithful [people] [is] preserving Yahweh and [is] repaying on excess [one who] does pride.
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 so may it show strength heart your O all those [who] wait for Yahweh.
Be of good courage, and let your heart be strengthened, all you that hope in the Lord.
