Psalms 31: 1 - 24
For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David. |
1In you, LORD, I take refuge. |
Let me never be disappointed. |
Deliver me in your righteousness. |
2Bow down your ear to me. |
Deliver me speedily. |
Be to me a strong rock, |
a house of defence to save me. |
3For you are my rock and my fortress, |
therefore for your name’s sake lead me and guide me. |
4Pluck me out of the net that they have laid secretly for me, |
for you are my stronghold. |
5Into your hand I commend my spirit. |
You redeem me, LORD, God of truth. |
6I hate those who regard lying vanities, |
but I trust in the LORD. |
7I will be glad and rejoice in your loving kindness, |
for you have seen my affliction. |
You have known my soul in adversities. |
8You have not shut me up into the hand of the enemy. |
You have set my feet in a large place. |
9Have mercy on me, LORD, for I am in distress. |
My eye, my soul, and my body waste away with grief. |
10For my life is spent with sorrow, |
my years with sighing. |
My strength fails because of my iniquity. |
My bones are wasted away. |
11Because 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. |
12I am forgotten from their hearts like a dead man. |
I am like broken pottery. |
13For I have heard the slander of many, terror on every side, |
while they conspire together against me, |
they plot to take away my life. |
14But I trust in you, LORD. |
I said, “You are my God.” |
15My times are in your hand. |
Deliver me from the hand of my enemies, and from those who persecute me. |
16Make your face to shine on your servant. |
Save me in your loving kindness. |
17Let me not be disappointed, LORD, for I have called on you. |
Let the wicked be disappointed. |
Let them be silent in Sheol. |
18Let the lying lips be mute, |
which speak against the righteous insolently, with pride and contempt. |
19Oh 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! |
20In 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. |
21Praise be to the LORD, |
for he has shown me his marvellous loving kindness in a strong city. |
22As 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. |
23Oh love the LORD, all you his saints! |
The LORD preserves the faithful, |
and fully recompenses him who behaves arrogantly. |
24Be strong, and let your heart take courage, |
all you who hope in the LORD. |
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