Psalm 31

In te, Domine, speravi

¹ In you, O Lord, have I put my trust;*

let me never be put to confusion; deliver me in your righteousness.

² Bow down your ear to me,*

make haste to deliver me,

³ And be my strong rock and house of defense,*

that you may save me.

⁴ For you are my strong rock and my castle;*

be also my guide, and lead me for your Name's sake.

⁵ Draw me out of the net that they have laid secretly for me,*

for you are my strength.

⁶ Into your hands I commend my spirit,*

for you have redeemed me, O Lord, O God of truth.

⁷ I have hated those who hold to worthless vanities,*

and my trust has been in the Lord.

⁸ I will be glad and rejoice in your mercy,*

for you have considered my trouble, and have known my soul in adversities.

⁹ You have not shut me up in the hand of the enemy,*

but have set my feet where they may walk at liberty.

¹⁰ Have mercy upon me, O Lord, for I am in trouble;*

my eye is consumed with heaviness, and also my soul and my body.

¹¹ For my life has grown old with heaviness,*

and my years with mourning.

¹² My strength fails me because of my iniquity,*

and my bones are consumed.

¹³ I have become a reproof among all my enemies, but especially among my neighbors;*

my acquaintances are afraid of me, and those who see me in the street shrink from me.

¹⁴ I am utterly forgotten, as a dead man, out of mind;*

I have become like a broken vessel.

¹⁵ For I have heard the whispering of the multitude, and fear is on every side,*

while they conspire together against me and take their counsel to take away my life.

¹⁶ But my hope has been in you, O Lord;*

I have said, "You are my God."

¹⁷ My time is in your hand;*

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

¹⁸ Show your servant the light of your countenance,*

and save me for your mercy's sake.

¹⁹ Let me not be confounded, O Lord, for I have called upon you;*

let the ungodly be put to confusion, and be put to silence in the grave.

²⁰ Let the lying lips be put to silence,*

which cruelly, disdainfully, and despitefully speak against the righteous.

²¹ Oh, how plentiful is your goodness, which you have laid up for those who fear you,*

and which you have prepared for those who put their trust in you, even before the children of men!

²² You hide them in the secret place of your presence from those who conspire against them;*

you keep them in your refuge from the strife of tongues.

²³ Thanks be to the Lord,*

for he has shown me marvellously great kindness in a strong city.

²⁴ But when I was afraid, I said in my haste,*

"I am cast out of the sight of your eyes."

²⁵ Nevertheless, you heard the voice of my prayer*

when I cried unto you.

²⁶ O love the Lord, all you his saints,*

for the Lord preserves those who are faithful, and plenteously repays the proud.

²⁷ Be strong, and he shall establish your heart,*

all you that put your trust in the Lord.

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