Psalms 31

1 To victorie, the salm of Dauid. Lord, Y hopide in thee, be Y not schent with outen ende; delyuere thou me in thi riytfulnesse.

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

2 Bouwe doun thin eere to me; haaste thou to delyuere me. Be thou to me in to God defendere, and in to an hows of refuyt; that thou make me saaf.

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

3 For thou art my strengthe and my refuyt; and for thi name thou schalt lede me forth, and schalt nurische me.

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

4 Thou schalt lede me out of the snare, which thei hidden to me; for thou art my defendere.

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

5 I bitake my spirit in to thin hondis; Lord God of treuthe, thou hast ayen bouyt me.

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

6 Thou hatist hem that kepen vanytees superfluli.

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

7 Forsothe Y hopide in the Lord; Y schal haue fulli ioie, and schal be glad in thi merci. For thou byheldist my mekenesse; thou sauedist my lijf fro nedis.

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

8 And thou closidist not me togidere withynne the hondis of the enemy; thou hast sett my feet in a large place.

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

9 Lord, haue thou merci on me, for Y am troblid; myn iye is troblid in ire, my soule and my wombe `ben troblid.

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 whi my lijf failide in sorewe; and my yeeris in weilynges. Mi vertu is maad feble in pouert; and my boonys ben disturblid.

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 Ouer alle myn enemyes Y am maad schenship greetli to my neiyboris; and drede to my knowun. Thei that sien me with outforth, fledden fro me; Y am youun to foryetyng,

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 as a deed man fro herte. I am maad as a lorun vessel;

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

13 for Y herde dispisyng of many men dwellynge in cumpas. In that thing the while thei camen togidere ayens me; thei counceliden to take my lijf.

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, Lord, Y hopide in thee; Y seide, Thou art my God; my tymes ben in thin hondis.

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

15 Delyuer thou me fro the hondis of mynen enemyes; and fro hem that pursuen me.

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

16 Make thou cleer thi face on thi seruaunt; Lord, make thou me saaf in thi merci;

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

17 be Y not schent, for Y inwardli clepide thee. Unpitouse men be aschamed, and be led forth in to helle; (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 gileful lippys be maad doumbe. That speken wickidnesse ayens a iust man; in pride, and in mysusyng.

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

19 Lord, the multitude of thi swetnesse is ful greet; which thou hast hid to men dredynge thee. Thou hast maad a perfit thing to hem, that hopen in thee; in the siyt of the sones of men.

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 Thou schalt hide hem in the priuyte of thi face; fro disturblyng of men. Thou schalt defende hem in thi tabernacle; fro ayenseiyng of tungis.

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 Blessid be the Lord; for he hath maad wondurful his merci to me in a strengthid citee.

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

22 Forsothe Y seide in the passyng of my soule; Y am cast out fro the face of thin iyen. Therfor thou herdist the vois of my preier; while Y criede to thee.

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 Alle ye hooli men of the Lord, loue hym; for the Lord schal seke treuthe, and he schal yelde plenteuousli to hem that doen pride.

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

24 Alle ye that hopen in the Lord, do manli; and youre herte be coumfortid.

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