Psalms Psalm 31

1In thee, O Lord, have I put my trust: let me never be confounded: deliver me in thy righteousness.

2Bow down thine ear to me: make haste to deliver me: be unto me a strong rock, and an house of defense to save me.

3For thou art my rock and my fortress: therefore for thy Name’s sake direct me and guide me.

4Draw me out of the net, that they have laid privily for me: for thou art my strength.

5Into thine hand I commend my spirit: for thou hast redeemed me, O Lord God of truth.

6I have hated them that give themselves to deceitful vanities: for I trust in the Lord.

7I will be glad and rejoice in thy mercy: for thou hast seen my trouble: thou hast known my soul in adversities,

8And thou hast not shut me up in the hand of the enemy, but hast set my feet at large.

9Have mercy upon me, O Lord: for I am in trouble: mine eye, my soul and my belly are consumed with grief.

10For my life is wasted with heaviness, and my years with mourning: my strength faileth for my pain, and my bones are consumed.

11I was a reproach among all mine enemies, but specially among my neighbors: and a fear to mine acquaintance, who seeing me in the street, fled from me.

12I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind: I am like a broken vessel.

13For I have heard the railing of great men: fear was on every side, while they conspired together against me, and consulted to take my life.

14But I trusted in thee, O Lord: I said, Thou art my God.

15My times are in thine hand: deliver me from the hand of mine enemies, and from them that persecute me.

16Make thy face to shine upon thy servant: and save me through thy mercy.

17Let me not be confounded, O Lord: for I have called upon thee: let the wicked be put to confusion, and to silence in the grave.

18Let the lying lips be made dumb, which cruelly, proudly, and spitefully speak against the righteous.

19How great is thy goodness, which thou hast laid up for them that fear thee! and done to them that trust in thee, even before the sons of men!

20Thou dost hide them privily in thy presence from the pride of men: thou keepest them secretly in thy Tabernacle from the strife of tongues.

21Blessed be the Lord: for he hath showed his marvelous kindness toward me in a strong city.

22Though I said in mine haste, I am cast out of thy sight, yet thou heardest the voice of my prayer, when I cried unto thee.

23Love ye the Lord all his Saints: for the Lord preserveth the faithful, and rewardeth abundantly the proud doer.

24All ye that trust in the Lord, be strong, and he shall establish your heart.