LITV - Psalms - 31

31:1  To the chief musician. A Psalm of David. In You, O Jehovah, I sought refuge; let me never be ashamed; deliver me in Your righteousness.

31:2  Bow down Your ear to me; deliver me quickly, be a strong rock to me, for a house of fortresses to save me.

31:3  For You are my Rock and my Fortress; and for Your name's sake lead me and guide me.

31:4  Bring me out of the net that they hid for me, for You are my strength.

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

31:6  I have hated those keeping worthless idols; but I trust in Jehovah.

31:7  And I will be glad and rejoice in Your mercy; for You have seen my affliction; You have known the distresses in my soul;

31:8  and have not shut me up into the hand of the enemy; You have set my feet in a broad place.

31:9  Be gracious to me, O Jehovah, for I am in trouble; my eye has wasted away with grief, my soul and my belly.

31:10  For my life is ending with grief, and my years with sighing; my strength fails because of my iniquity, and my bones have wasted away.

31:11  I was a reproach among all my foes, but especially to my neighbors; and a fear to my friends, those who saw me outside fled from me.

31:12  I am forgotten like one dead from the heart; I am like a perishing vessel.

31:13  For I have heard the slander of many; fear is all around; because of their plottings together against me, they planned to take away my life.

31:14  But I trusted in You, O Jehovah; I said, You are my God.

31:15  My times are in Your hand; deliver me from the hand of my enemies and from those who pursue me.

31:16  Make Your face shine on Your servant; save me in Your mercy.

31:17  Let me not be ashamed, O Jehovah; for I have called upon You; let the wicked be ashamed; let them be silent in Sheol.

31:18  Let the lying lips be silenced which speak recklessly against the righteous with pride and scorn.

31:19  How great is Your goodness which You have laid up for those who fear You; You have worked for those who trust in You before the sons of mankind.

31:20  In the secrecy of Your presence You shall hide them from man's plots; You shall cover them in a booth, from the strife of tongues.

31:21  Blessed be Jehovah, for He has worked His mercy wondrously to me in a besieged city.

31:22  For I said in my haste, I am cut off from Your eyes; surely you heard the voice of my prayers when I cried to You.

31:23  O love Jehovah, all you saints of His; Jehovah preserves the faithful, and abundantly repays the proud doer.

31:24  Be strong, and He will make your heart stronger, all you who hope in Jehovah.