Psalm 31

PSALM 31

A Psalm of Complaint and of Praise.

For the choir director. A Psalm of David.

^1aIn You, O Lord, I have taken refuge;

Let me never ^bbe ashamed;

^cIn Your righteousness deliver me.

^2aIncline Your ear to me, rescue me quickly;

Be to me a ^brock of ¹strength,

A stronghold to save me.

³For You are my ¹rock and ^amy fortress;

For ^bYour name’s sake You will lead me and guide me.

⁴You will ^apull me out of the net which they have secretly laid for me,

For You are my ^bstrength.

^5aInto Your hand I commit my spirit;

You have ^bransomed me, O Lord, ^cGod of ¹truth.

⁶I hate those who ^aregard ¹vain idols,

But I ^btrust in the Lord.

⁷I will ^arejoice and be glad in Your lovingkindness,

Because You have ^bseen my affliction;

You have known the troubles of my soul,

⁸And You have not ^agiven me over into the hand of the enemy;

You have set my feet in a large place.

⁹Be gracious to me, O Lord, for ^aI am in distress;

My ^beye is wasted away from grief, ^cmy soul and my body also.

¹⁰For my life is spent with ^asorrow

And my years with sighing;

My ^bstrength has failed because of my iniquity,

And ^cmy ¹body has wasted away.

¹¹Because of all my adversaries, I have become a ^areproach,

Especially to my ^bneighbors,

And an object of dread to my acquaintances;

Those who see me in the street flee from me.

¹²I am ^aforgotten as a dead man, out of mind;

I am like a broken vessel.

¹³For I have heard the ^1aslander of many,

^bTerror is on every side;

While they ^ctook counsel together against me,

They ^dschemed to take away my life.

¹⁴But as for me, I trust in You, O Lord,

I say, “^aYou are my God.”

¹⁵My ^atimes are in Your hand;

^bDeliver me from the hand of my enemies and from those who persecute me.

¹⁶Make Your ^aface to shine upon Your servant;

^bSave me in Your lovingkindness.

¹⁷Let me not be ^aput to shame, O Lord, for I call upon You;

Let the ^bwicked be put to shame, let them ^cbe silent in ¹Sheol.

¹⁸Let the ^alying lips be mute,

Which ^bspeak arrogantly against the righteous

With pride and contempt.

¹⁹How great is Your ^agoodness,

Which You have stored up for those who fear You,

Which You have wrought for those who ^btake refuge in You,

^cBefore the sons of men!

²⁰You hide them in the ^asecret place of Your presence from the ^bconspiracies of man;

You keep them secretly in a ¹shelter from the ^cstrife of tongues.

^21aBlessed be the Lord,

For He has made ^bmarvelous His lovingkindness to me in a besieged ^ccity.

²²As for me, ^aI said in my alarm,

“I am ^bcut off from before Your eyes”;

Nevertheless You ^cheard the voice of my supplications

When I cried to You.

²³O love the Lord, all you ^aHis godly ones!

The Lord ^bpreserves the faithful

And fully ^crecompenses the proud doer.

^24aBe strong and let your heart take courage,

All you who ¹hope in the Lord.