AB - Psalms - 31

31:1  O Lord, I have hoped in You; let me never be ashamed; deliver me in Your righteousness and rescue me.

31:2  Incline Your ear to me; make haste to rescue me; be to me my protecting God, and a fortress of defense to save me.

31:3  For You are my strength and my refuge; and You shall guide me for Your name's sake, and maintain me.

31:4  You shall bring me out of the snare which they have hidden for me; for You, O Lord, are my defender.

31:5  Into Your hands I commit my spirit; You have redeemed me, O Lord God of truth.

31:6  You have hated them that idly persist in vanities; but I have hoped in the Lord.

31:7  I will exalt and be glad in Your mercy; for You have looked upon my affliction; You have saved my soul from distresses.

31:8  And You have not shut me up into the hands of the enemy; You have set my feet in a wide place.

31:9  Pity me, O Lord, for I am afflicted; my eye is troubled with indignation, my soul and my belly.

31:10  For my life is spent with grief, and my years with groanings; my strength has been weakened through poverty, and my bones are troubled.

31:11  I became a reproach among all my enemies, but exceedingly so to my neighbors, and a fear to my acquaintance; they that saw me outside fled from me.

31:12  I have been forgotten as a dead man out of mind; I have become as a broken vessel.

31:13  For I heard the slander of many that dwelt round about; when they were gathered together against me, they took counsel to take my life.

31:14  But I hoped in You, O Lord; I said, You are my God.

31:15  My times are in Your hands; deliver me from the hand of my enemies,

31:16  and from them that persecute me. Make Your face to shine upon Your servant; save me in Your mercy.

31:17  O Lord, let me not be ashamed, for I have called upon You; let the ungodly be ashamed, and brought down to Hades.

31:18  Let the deceitful lips become dumb, which speak iniquity against the righteous with pride and scorn.

31:19  How abundant is the multitude of Your goodness, O Lord, which You have laid up for them that fear You! You have wrought it out for them that hope on You, in the presence of the sons of men.

31:20  You will hide them in the secret of Your presence from the vexation of man; You will screen them in a tabernacle from the contradiction of tongues.

31:21  Blessed be the Lord, for He has magnified His mercy in a fortified city.

31:22  But I said in my extreme fear, I am cast out from the sight of Your eyes; therefore You listened, O Lord, to the voice of my supplication when I cried to You.

31:23  Love the Lord, all you His saints; for the Lord seeks those that are truthful, and He recompenses them that deal very proudly.

31:24  Be of good courage, and let your heart be strengthened, all you that hope in the Lord.