Psalms, 31

1. [For the choirmaster Psalm Of David] In you, Yahweh, I have taken refuge, let me never be put to shame, in your saving justice deliver me, rescue me,

1. <To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David.> In thee, O LORD, do I put my trust; let me never be ashamed: deliver me in thy righteousness.

2. turn your ear to me, make haste. Be for me a rock-fastness, a fortified citadel to save me.

2. Bow down thine ear to me; deliver me speedily: be thou my strong rock, for an house of defence to save me.

3. You are my rock, my rampart; true to your name, lead me and guide me!

3. For thou [art] my rock and my fortress; therefore for thy name's sake lead me, and guide me.

4. Draw me out of the net they have spread for me, for you are my refuge;

4. Pull me out of the net that they have laid privily for me: for thou [art] my strength.

5. to your hands I commit my spirit, by you have I been redeemed. God of truth,

5. Into thine hand I commit my spirit: thou hast redeemed me, O LORD God of truth.

6. you hate those who serve useless idols; but my trust is in Yahweh:

6. I have hated them that regard lying vanities: but I trust in the LORD.

7. I will delight and rejoice in your faithful love! You, who have seen my misery, and witnessed the miseries of my soul,

7. I will be glad and rejoice in thy mercy: for thou hast considered my trouble; thou hast known my soul in adversities;

8. have not handed me over to the enemy, but have given me freedom to roam at large.

8. And hast not shut me up into the hand of the enemy: thou hast set my feet in a large room.

9. Take pity on me, Yahweh, for I am in trouble. Vexation is gnawing away my eyes, my soul deep within me.

9. Have mercy upon me, O LORD, for I am in trouble: mine eye is consumed with grief, [yea], my soul and my belly.

10. For my life is worn out with sorrow, and my years with sighs. My strength gives way under my misery, and my bones are all wasted away.

10. For my life is spent with grief, and my years with sighing: my strength faileth because of mine iniquity, and my bones are consumed.

11. The sheer number of my enemies makes me contemptible, loathsome to my neighbours, and my friends shrink from me in horror. When people see me in the street they take to their heels.

11. I was a reproach among all mine enemies, but especially among my neighbours, and a fear to mine acquaintance: they that did see me without fled from me.

12. I have no more place in their hearts than a corpse, or something lost.

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

13. All I hear is slander -- terror wherever I turn -- as they plot together against me, scheming to take my life.

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.

14. But my trust is in you, Yahweh; I say, 'You are my God,'

14. But I trusted in thee, O LORD: I said, Thou [art] my God.

15. every moment of my life is in your hands, rescue me from the clutches of my foes who pursue me;

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

16. let your face shine on your servant, save me in your faithful love.

16. Make thy face to shine upon thy servant: save me for thy mercies' sake.

17. I call on you, Yahweh, so let disgrace fall not on me, but on the wicked. Let them go down to Sheol in silence,

17. Let me not be ashamed, O LORD; for I have called upon thee: let the wicked be ashamed, [and] let them be silent in the grave.

18. muzzles on their lying mouths, which speak arrogantly against the upright in pride and contempt.

18. Let the lying lips be put to silence; which speak grievous things proudly and contemptuously against the righteous.

19. Yahweh, what quantities of good things you have in store for those who fear you, and bestow on those who make you their refuge, for all humanity to see.

19. [Oh] how great [is] thy goodness, which thou hast laid up for them that fear thee; [which] thou hast wrought for them that trust in thee before the sons of men!

20. Safe in your presence you hide them, far from human plotting, shielding them in your tent, far from contentious tongues.

20. Thou shalt hide them in the secret of thy presence from the pride of man: thou shalt keep them secretly in a pavilion from the strife of tongues.

21. Blessed be Yahweh who works for me miracles of his faithful love (in a fortified city)!

21. Blessed [be] the LORD: for he hath shewed me his marvellous kindness in a strong city.

22. In a state of terror I cried, 'I have been cut off from your sight!' Yet you heard my plea for help when I cried out to you.

22. For I said in my haste, I am cut off from before thine eyes: nevertheless thou heardest the voice of my supplications when I cried unto thee.

23. Love Yahweh, all his faithful: Yahweh protects his loyal servants, but he repays the arrogant with interest.

23. O love the LORD, all ye his saints: [for] the LORD preserveth the faithful, and plentifully rewardeth the proud doer.

24. Be brave, take heart, all who put your hope in Yahweh.

24. Be of good courage, and he shall strengthen your heart, all ye that hope in the LORD.