Psalm 31:1–18

¹In you, O Yahweh, I have taken refuge.

Let me not be put to shame ever.

Deliver me by your righteousness.

²Incline your ear to me.

Quickly deliver me.

Become my rock of refuge,

a fortified keep^b to save me.

³For you are my rock and my fortress.

So, for the sake of your name,

lead me and guide me.

⁴Bring me out of the net that they have secretly set for me,

for you are my refuge.

⁵Into your hand I commit my spirit.

You have redeemed me, O Yahweh, faithful God.^c

⁶I hate those devoted to useless idols,

but I trust Yahweh.

⁷I will exult and rejoice in your loyal love.

Because you have seen my misery,

you know the distresses of my life.^d

⁸And you have not delivered me

into the hand of the enemy.

You have set my feet in a broad place.

⁹Be gracious to me, O Yahweh,

because I have distress.

My eye wastes away because of vexation,

along with my soul and my body.^e

¹⁰For my life is at an end with sorrow,

and my years with sighing.

My strength stumbles because of my iniquity,

and my bones waste away.

¹¹Because of all my adversaries I have become a disgrace,

especially to my neighbors,

and a dread to my acquaintances.

Those who see me in the street flee from me.

¹²I have become forgotten like one dead, out of mind.^f

I am like a destroyed vessel.

¹³For I hear the rumor of many,

“Terror on every side!”

When conspiring together against me,

they have plotted to take my life.

¹⁴But as for me, I trust you, O Yahweh.

I say, “You are my God.”

¹⁵My times^g are in your hand.

Deliver me from the hand of my enemies

and from those who pursue me.

¹⁶Shine your face upon your servant.

Save me by your loyal love.

¹⁷O Yahweh, let me not be put to shame, for I call on you.

Let the wicked be put to shame.

Let them go silently^h to Sheol.

¹⁸Let lying lips be dumb,

that speak against the righteousⁱ unrestrained

with arrogance and contempt.