Psalm 31–32

Psalm XXXI.

To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David.

^aIn thee, O Lord, do I put my trust;

^aLet me never be ashamed:

^bDeliver me in thy righteousness.

^2cBow down thine ear to me; deliver me speedily:

Be thou my strong rock,

For a house of ^ddefence to save me.

^3dFor thou art my rock and my fortress;

Therefore ^efor thy name’s sake ^flead me, and ^gguide me.

^4hPull me out of the ⁱnet that they have laid privily for me:

For ⁱⁱthou art my strength.

^5jInto thine hand I commit my spirit:

Thou hast redeemed me, O Lord ^kGod of truth.

^6lI have hated them that ^mregard lying vanities:

But ⁿI trust in the Lord.

⁷I will be glad and rejoice in thy mercy:

For thou hast considered my trouble;

Thou hast ^oknown my soul in adversities;

⁸And hast not ^pshut me up into the hand of the enemy:

Thou hast set my feet ^qin a large room.

^9rHave mercy upon me, O Lord, for ^rrI am in trouble:

^sMine eye is consumed with grief, yea, my soul and my belly.

¹⁰For my life is spent with grief, and my years with sighing:

My strength faileth because of mine ^tiniquity, and ^umy bones are consumed.

¹¹I was a reproach among all mine enemies,

But ^wespecially among my neighbours, and a fear to mine ^xacquaintance:

^yThey that did see me without fled from me.

¹²I ^zam forgotten as a dead man out of mind:

I am like a broken vessel.

^13aFor I have heard the slander of many:

^abFear was on every side:

While they took counsel together against me,

They devised to take away my life.

¹⁴But ^cI trusted in thee, O Lord:

I said, Thou art my God.

^15dMy times are in thy hand:

^eDeliver me from the hand of mine enemies, and ^efrom them that persecute me.

^16fMake thy face to shine upon thy servant:

Save me for thy mercy’s sake.

^17gLet me not be ashamed, O Lord; for I have called upon thee:

Let the wicked be ashamed, and ^hlet them be silent in the grave.

¹⁸Let the lying lips be put to silence;

Which speak grievous things ⁱproudly and contemptuously against the righteous.

¹⁹O how great is thy goodness, ^kwhich thou hast laid up for them that fear thee;

Which thou hast wrought for them that trust in thee

^lBefore the sons of men!

²⁰Thou shalt hide them in ^mthe secret of thy presence from the pride of man:

Thou shalt ^nokeep them secretly in a pavilion from ^othe strife of tongues.

²¹Blessed be the Lord: for ^phe hath shewed me his marvellous kindness in a strong city.

²²For ^qI said in my haste, ^rI am cut off ^sfrom before thine eyes:

Nevertheless thou heardest ^ssthe voice of my supplications when I cried unto thee.

²³O love the Lord, all ye his ^tsaints:

For the Lord preserveth the faithful,

And plentifully rewardeth the proud doer.

^24uBe of good courage, and he shall strengthen your heart,

All ye that ^xhope in the Lord.

Psalm XXXII.

A Psalm of David, Maschil.

^aBlessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered.

²Blessed is the man unto whom the Lord ^bimputeth not iniquity,

And ^cin whose spirit there is no guile.

³When I kept silence, ^dmy bones waxed old

Through my ^eroaring all the day long.

⁴For day and night thy ^fhand was heavy upon me:

My ^gmoisture is turned into the drought of summer. Selah.

⁵I ^hacknowledged my sin unto thee,

And mine iniquity have I not hid.

ⁱI said, I will confess my transgressions unto the Lord;

And thou forgavest the iniquity of my sin. Selah.

⁶For this shall every one that is ⁱⁱgodly pray unto thee ^jin a time when thou mayest be found:

Surely in the floods of great waters they shall not come nigh unto him.

⁷Thou art my ^khiding place; thou shalt preserve me ^lfrom trouble;

Thou shalt compass me about with ^msongs of deliverance. Selah.

⁸I will instruct thee and teach thee in the way which thou shalt go:

I will guide thee with mine eye.

⁹ⁿBe ye not as the horse,

Or as the mule, which have no understanding:

^oWhose mouth must be held in with bit and bridle,

Lest they come near unto thee.

^10pMany sorrows shall be to the wicked:

But ^qhe that trusteth in the Lord, mercy shall compass him about.

^11rBe glad in the Lord, and rejoice, ye righteous:

And ^sshout for joy, all ye that are ^tupright in heart.