Psalm 31

Lexham English Bible

31 In you, O Yahweh, I have taken refuge.
Let me not be put to shame ever.
Deliver me by your righteousness.
² Incline your ear to me.
Quickly deliver me.
Become my rock of refuge,
a fortified keep^[b] to save me.
³ For you are my rock and my fortress.
So, for the sake of your name,
lead me and guide me.
⁴ Bring me out of the net that they have secretly set for me,
for you are my refuge.
⁵ Into your hand I commit my spirit.
You have redeemed me, O Yahweh, faithful God.^[c]
6 I hate those devoted to useless idols,
but I trust Yahweh.
⁷ I will exult and rejoice in your loyal love.
Because you have seen my misery,
you know the distresses of my life.^[d]
8 And you have not delivered me
into the hand of the enemy.
You have set my feet in a broad place.
⁹ Be gracious to me, O Yahweh,
because I have distress.
My eye wastes away because of vexation,
along with my soul and my body.^[e]
10 For my life is at an end with sorrow,
and my years with sighing.
My strength stumbles because of my iniquity,
and my bones waste away.
¹¹ Because of all my adversaries I have become a disgrace,
especially to my neighbors,
and a dread to my acquaintances.
Those who see me in the street flee from me.
¹² I have become forgotten like one dead, out of mind.^[f]
I am like a destroyed vessel.
¹³ For I hear the rumor of many,
“Terror on every side!”
When conspiring together against me,
they have plotted to take my life.
¹⁴ But as for me, I trust you, O Yahweh.
I say, “You are my God.”
¹⁵ My times^[g] are in your hand.
Deliver me from the hand of my enemies
and from those who pursue me.
¹⁶ Shine your face upon your servant.
Save me by your loyal love.
¹⁷ O Yahweh, let me not be put to shame, for I call on you.
Let the wicked be put to shame.
Let them go silently^[h] to Sheol.
¹⁸ Let lying lips be dumb,
that speak against the righteous^[i] unrestrained
with arrogance and contempt.
¹⁹ How abundant is your goodness
that you have stored up for those who fear you,
that you perform for those who take refuge in you
before the children of humankind.
²⁰ You will hide them in the protection of your presence
from the plots of man.
You will hide them in a shelter from the strife of tongues.
²¹ Blessed is Yahweh,
because he has worked marvelously his loyal love to me
in a besieged city.
²² As for me, I said in my alarm,
“I am cut off from before your eyes.”
However you heard the voice of my supplications
when I cried to you for help.
²³ Love Yahweh, all you his faithful ones.
Yahweh preserves the faithful
but repays abundantly the one who acts arrogantly.
²⁴ Be strong and let your^[j] heart show strength,
all you who wait for Yahweh.