Psalms 31

1 For the chief musician. A psalm of David. In you, Yahweh, I take refuge; never let me be humiliated. Rescue me in your righteousness.

In you, O LORD, do I put my trust; let me never be ashamed: deliver me in your righteousness.

2 Listen to me; rescue me quickly; be my rock of refuge, a stronghold to save me.

Bow down your ear to me; deliver me speedily: be you my strong rock, for an house of defense to save me.

3 For you are my rock and my fortress; therefore for your name's sake, lead and guide me.

For you are my rock and my fortress; therefore for your name’s sake lead me, and guide me.

4 Pluck me out of the net that they have hidden for me, for you are my refuge.

Pull me out of the net that they have laid privately for me: for you are my strength.

5 Into your hands I entrust my spirit; you will redeem me, Yahweh, God of trustworthiness.

Into your hand I commit my spirit: you have redeemed me, O LORD God of truth.

6 I hate those who serve worthless idols, but I trust in Yahweh.

I have hated them that regard lying vanities: but I trust in the LORD.

7 I will be glad and rejoice in your covenant faithfulness, for you saw my affliction; you knew the distress of my soul.

I will be glad and rejoice in your mercy: for you have considered my trouble; you have known my soul in adversities;

8 You have not given me into the hand of my enemy. You have set my feet in a wide open place.

And have not shut me up into the hand of the enemy: you have set my feet in a large room.

9 Have mercy upon me, Yahweh, for I am in distress; my eyes grow weary with grief with my soul and my body.

Have mercy on me, O LORD, for I am in trouble: my eye is consumed with grief, yes, my soul and my belly.

10 For my life is weary with sorrow and my years with groaning. My strength fails because of my sin, and my bones are wasting away.

For my life is spent with grief, and my years with sighing: my strength fails because of my iniquity, and my bones are consumed.

11 Because of all my enemies, people disdain me; my neighbors are appalled at my situation, and those who know me are horrified. Those who see me in the street run from me.

I was a reproach among all my enemies, but especially among my neighbors, and a fear to my acquaintance: they that did see me without fled from me.

12 I am forgotten as a dead man whom no one thinks about. I am like a broken pot.

I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind: I am like a broken vessel.

13 For I have heard the whispering of many, terrifying news from every side as they plot together against me. They plot to take away my life.

For I have heard the slander of many: fear was on every side: while they took counsel together against me, they devised to take away my life.

14 But I trust in you, Yahweh; I say, “You are my God.”

But I trusted in you, O LORD: I said, You are my God.

15 My times are in your hand. Rescue me from the hands of my enemies and from those who pursue me.

My times are in your hand: deliver me from the hand of my enemies, and from them that persecute me.

16 Make your face shine on your servant; save me in your covenant faithfulness.

Make your face to shine on your servant: save me for your mercies’ sake.

17 Do not let me be humiliated, Yahweh; for I call out to you! May the wicked be humiliated! May they be silent in Sheol. (Sheol h7585)

Let me not be ashamed, O LORD; for I have called on you: let the wicked be ashamed, and let them be silent in the grave. (Sheol h7585)

18 May lying lips be silenced that speak against the righteous defiantly with arrogance and contempt.

Let the lying lips be put to silence; which speak grievous things proudly and contemptuously against the righteous.

19 How great is your goodness that you have stored up for those who revere you, that you perform for those who take refuge in you before all the children of mankind!

Oh how great is your goodness, which you have laid up for them that fear you; which you have worked for them that trust in you before the sons of men!

20 In the shelter of your presence, you hide them from the plots of men. You hide them in a shelter from the violence of tongues.

You shall hide them in the secret of your presence from the pride of man: you shall keep them secretly in a pavilion from the strife of tongues.

21 Blessed be Yahweh, for he showed me his marvelous covenant faithfulness when I was in a besieged city.

Blessed be the LORD: for he has showed me his marvelous kindness in a strong city.

22 Though I said in my haste, “I am cut off from your eyes,” yet you heard my plea for help when I cried to you.

For I said in my haste, I am cut off from before your eyes: nevertheless you heard the voice of my supplications when I cried to you.

23 Oh, love Yahweh, all you faithful followers. Yahweh protects the faithful, but he pays back the arrogant in full.

O love the LORD, all you his saints: for the LORD preserves the faithful, and plentifully rewards the proud doer.

24 Be strong and confident, all you who trust in Yahweh for help.

Be of good courage, and he shall strengthen your heart, all you that hope in the LORD.