Psalms 31:1 – 31:24

  1 To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. In thee, O Lord, do I put my trust; let me never be ashamed: deliver me in thy righteousness.
  2 Bow down thine ear to me; deliver me speedily: be thou my strong rock, for an house of defence to save me.
  3 For thou [art] my rock and my fortress; therefore for thy name’s sake lead me, and guide me.
  4 Pull me out of the net that they have laid privily for me: for thou [art] my strength.
  5 Into thine hand I commit my spirit: thou hast redeemed me, O Lord God of truth.
  6 I have hated them that regard lying vanities: but I trust in the Lord.
  7 I will be glad and rejoice in thy mercy: for thou hast considered my trouble; thou hast known my soul in adversities;
  8 And hast not shut me up into the hand of the enemy: thou hast set my feet in a large room.
  9 Have mercy upon me, O Lord, for I am in trouble: mine eye is consumed with grief, [yea], my soul and my belly.
  10 For my life is spent with grief, and my years with sighing: my strength faileth because of mine iniquity, and my bones are consumed.
  11 I was a reproach among all mine enemies, but especially among my neighbours, and a fear to mine acquaintance: they that did see me without fled from me.
  12 I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind: I am like a broken vessel.
  13 For I have heard the slander of many: fear [was] on every side: while they took counsel together against me, they devised to take away my life.
  14 But I trusted in thee, O Lord: I said, Thou [art] my God.
  15 My times [are] in thy hand: deliver me from the hand of mine enemies, and from them that persecute me.
  16 Make thy face to shine upon thy servant: save me for thy mercies’ sake.
  17 Let me not be ashamed, O Lord; for I have called upon thee: let the wicked be ashamed, [and] let them be silent in the grave.
  18 Let the lying lips be put to silence; which speak grievous things proudly and contemptuously against the righteous.
  19 [Oh] how great [is] thy goodness, which thou hast laid up for them that fear thee; [which] thou hast wrought for them that trust in thee before the sons of men!
  20 Thou shalt hide them in the secret of thy presence from the pride of man: thou shalt keep them secretly in a pavilion from the strife of tongues.
  21 Blessed [be] the Lord: for he hath shewed me his marvellous kindness in a strong city.
  22 For I said in my haste, I am cut off from before thine eyes: nevertheless thou heardest the voice of my supplications when I cried unto thee.
  23 O love the Lord, all ye his saints: [for] the Lord preserveth the faithful, and plentifully rewardeth the proud doer.
  24 Be of good courage, and he shall strengthen your heart, all ye that hope in the Lord.