Psalm 31:6–18

6 I hate those who aregard 1vain idols,

But I btrust in the Lord.

7 I will arejoice and be glad in Your lovingkindness,

Because You have bseen my affliction;

You have known the troubles of my soul,

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

You have set my feet in a large place.

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

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

10 For 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.

11 Because 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.

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

I am like a broken vessel.

13 For I have heard the 1 aslander of many,

bTerror is on every side;

While they ctook counsel together against me,

They dschemed to take away my life.

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

I say, “aYou are my God.”

15 My atimes are in Your hand;

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

16 Make Your aface to shine upon Your servant;

bSave me in Your lovingkindness.

17 Let 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.

18 Let the alying lips be mute,

Which bspeak arrogantly against the righteous

With pride and contempt.