Psalms 31
To the director; a psalm to David; a change of state.
31:1Upon you, O lord, I hoped. May I not be disgraced into the eon. In your righteousness rescue me, and take me out!
31:2Lean your ear to me! Hasten to take me out! Become to me as a defending God! and for a house of refuge to deliver me.
31:3For you are my fortification and my refuge; and because of your name you shall guide me and nourish me.
31:4You shall lead me out of the snare which these hid for me; for you are my defender, O lord.
31:5Into your hands I shall place my spirit. You ransomed me, O lord God of truth.
31:6You detested the ones guarding ineffectual follies. But I hoped upon the lord.
31:7I will exult and be glad over your mercy, for you looked upon my humiliation. You delivered my soul from the wants of necessities;
31:8and you did not close me up by hands of enemies. You set my feet in a broad space.
31:9Show mercy on me, O lord! for I am afflicted. My eye my soul and my belly are disturbed in rage;
31:10for my life failed in grief, and my years in moanings. My strength weakened in poorness, and my bones are disturbed.
31:11By all my enemies I became a scorn, even to my neighbors exceedingly so, and a fear to my acquaintances. The ones viewing me outside fled from me.
31:12I was forgotten as one dead from the heart; I am become as a vessel being destroyed.
31:13For I heard the fault of many sojourning round about. In their gathering together against me they consulted to take my soul.
31:14But I hoped upon you O lord. I said, You are my God.
31:15My lots are in your hands. Rescue me from the hand of my enemies, and from the ones pursuing me!
31:16Let your face appear unto your servant! Deliver me in your mercy!
31:17O lord, may I not be disgraced, for I called upon you. May the impious be ashamed, and led down into Hades.
31:18Let the lips of the deceitful become speechless! even the ones speaking against the just in lawlessness with pride and contempt.
31:19How abundant is the multitude of your graciousness, O lord, of which you hid to the ones fearing you. You brought it to completion to the ones hoping upon you, before the sons of men.
31:20You shall hide them in the concealment of your face from the disturbance of men. You shall shelter them in a tent from the dispute of tongues.
31:21Blessed be the lord, for his mercy caused wonders in the city encompassed about.
31:22But I said in my change of state, I am thrown away from in front of your eyes. On account of this you heard of the voice of my supplication in my crying out to you.
31:23Let all his sacred ones love the lord! For the lord requires truth; and he recompenses extremely to the ones having pride.
31:24Let all the ones hoping upon the lord be manly and be fortified in your heart!