Psalm 31:1-24
To the director. A melody of David.
31 In you, O Jehovah,* have I taken refuge.+O may I never be ashamed.+In your righteousness provide escape for me.+
2 Incline to me your ear.+Deliver me speedily.+Become for me a rocky stronghold,+A house of strongholds to save me.+
3 For you are my crag and my stronghold;+And for the sake of your name+ you will lead me and conduct me.+
4 You will bring me out of the net that they have hidden for me,+For you are my fortress.+
5 Into your hand I entrust my spirit.+You have redeemed me,+ O Jehovah* the God of truth.*+
6 I do hate those paying regard to worthless, vain idols;*+But as for me, in Jehovah* I do trust.+
7 I will be joyful and rejoice in your loving-kindness,*+In that you have seen my affliction;+You have known about the distresses of my soul,+
8 And you have not surrendered me into the hand of the enemy.+You have made my feet stand in a roomy place.+
9 Show me favor, O Jehovah,* for I am in sore straits.+With vexation my eye has become weak,+ my soul and my belly.+
10 For with grief my life has come to an end,+And my years in sighing.+Because of my error my power has stumbled,+And my very bones have become weak.+
11 From the standpoint of all those showing hostility to me+ I have become a reproach,+And to my neighbors very much so,+And a dread to my acquaintances.+When seeing me out of doors, they have fled from me.+
12 Like someone dead [and] not in the heart, I have been forgotten;+I have become like a damaged* vessel;+
13 For I have heard the bad report by many,+Fright being on all sides.+When they mass together as one against me,+It is to take away my soul* that they do scheme.+
14 But I—in you I have put my trust, O Jehovah.+I have said: “You are my God.”*+
15 My times are in your hand.+Deliver me from the hand of my enemies and from those pursuing me.+
16 Do cause your face to shine upon your servant.+Save me in your loving-kindness.+
17 O Jehovah, may I not be ashamed, for I have called on you.+May the wicked ones be ashamed;+May they keep silent in Sheʹol.+
18 May false lips become speechless,+That are speaking against the righteous one,+ unrestrainedly in haughtiness and contempt.+
19 How abundant your goodness is,+ which you have treasured up for those fearing you!+[Which] you have rendered to those taking refuge in you,In front of the sons of men.*+
20 You will conceal them in the secret place of your person*+From the banding together of men.*+You will hide them in your booth from the quarreling of tongues.+
21 Blessed be Jehovah,*+For he has rendered wonderful loving-kindness+ to me in a city under stress.+
22 As for me, I said when I became panicky:+“I shall certainly be exterminated from in front of your eyes.”+Surely you have heard the voice of my entreaties when I cried to you for help.+
23 O love Jehovah,* all YOU loyal ones of his.+The faithful ones Jehovah* is safeguarding,+But he is rewarding exceedingly anyone showing haughtiness.+
24 Be courageous, and may YOUR heart be strong,+All YOU who are waiting for Jehovah.*+
Footnotes
^ See App 1C §10.
^ “The God of truth.” Or, “the true God.” Heb., ʼEl ʼemethʹ.
^ See App 1C §10.
^ Lit., “vanities.”
^ See App 1C §10.
^ Or, “loyal love.”
^ See App 1C §10.
^ Or, “missing.”
^ Or, “my life.” Heb., naph·shiʹ; Gr., psy·khenʹ; Lat., aʹni·mam.
^ “My God.” Heb., ʼElo·haiʹ.
^ Or, “earthling men.” Heb., ʼa·dhamʹ.
^ “Men.” Heb., ʼish.
^ See App 1C §10.
^ See App 1C §10.
^ See App 1C §10.
^ See App 1C §10.
