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.

To 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 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 thy ear to me; deliver me speedily: be thou my strong rock, for a 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 thou [art] my rock and my fortress; therefore for thy 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 privily for me: for thou [art] my strength.

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

Into thy hand I commit my spirit: thou hast 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 thy mercy: for thou hast considered my trouble; thou hast 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 hast not shut me up into the hand of the enemy: thou hast set my foot 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 upon 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 faileth 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 saw 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 thee, O LORD: I said, Thou [art] my God.

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

My times [are] in thy 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 thy face to shine upon thy servant: save me for thy 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 upon thee: 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] thy goodness, which thou hast laid up for them that fear thee; [which] thou hast wrought for them that trust in thee 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.

Thou shalt hide them in the secret of thy presence from the pride of man: thou shalt 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 hath showed me his wonderful 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 thy eyes: nevertheless thou heardest the voice of my supplications when I cried to thee.

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 ye his saints: [for] the LORD preserveth the faithful, and plentifully rewardeth the proud doer.

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

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