Psalms 31:1
In you, O LORD, do I put my trust; let me never be ashamed: deliver me in your righteousness.
Psalms 31:2
Bow down your ear to me; deliver me speedily: be you my strong rock, for an house of defense to save me.
Psalms 31:3
For you are my rock and my fortress; therefore for your name's sake lead me, and guide me.
Psalms 31:4
Pull me out of the net that they have laid privately for me: for you are my strength.
Psalms 31:5
Into your hand I commit my spirit: you have redeemed me, O LORD God of truth.
Psalms 31:6
I have hated them that regard lying vanities: but I trust in the LORD.
Psalms 31:7
I will be glad and rejoice in your mercy: for you have considered my trouble; you have known my soul in adversities;
Psalms 31:8
And have not shut me up into the hand of the enemy: you have set my feet in a large room.
Psalms 31:9
Have mercy on me, O LORD, for I am in trouble: my eye is consumed with grief, yes, my soul and my belly.
Psalms 31:10
For my life is spent with grief, and my years with sighing: my strength fails because of my iniquity, and my bones are consumed.
Psalms 31:11
I was a reproach among all my enemies, but especially among my neighbors, and a fear to my acquaintance: they that did see me without fled from me.
Psalms 31:12
I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind: I am like a broken vessel.
Psalms 31:13
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.
Psalms 31:14
But I trusted in you, O LORD: I said, You are my God.
Psalms 31:15
My times are in your hand: deliver me from the hand of my enemies, and from them that persecute me.
Psalms 31:16
Make your face to shine on your servant: save me for your mercies' sake.
Psalms 31:17
Let me not be ashamed, O LORD; for I have called on you: let the wicked be ashamed, and let them be silent in the grave.
Psalms 31:18
Let the lying lips be put to silence; which speak grievous things proudly and contemptuously against the righteous.
Psalms 31:19
Oh how great is your goodness, which you have laid up for them that fear you; which you have worked for them that trust in you before the sons of men!
Psalms 31:20
You shall hide them in the secret of your presence from the pride of man: you shall keep them secretly in a pavilion from the strife of tongues.
Psalms 31:21
Blessed be the LORD: for he has showed me his marvelous kindness in a strong city.
Psalms 31:22
For I said in my haste, I am cut off from before your eyes: nevertheless you heard the voice of my supplications when I cried to you.
Psalms 31:23
O love the LORD, all you his saints: for the LORD preserves the faithful, and plentifully rewards the proud doer.
Psalms 31:24
Be of good courage, and he shall strengthen your heart, all you that hope in the LORD.