To the chief musician, a psalm of David
31
📚In you, O LORD,I put my trust;
let me never be ashamed✭.
Deliver me in your righteousness✭.
2 📚Bow down your ear
toward me.
Deliver me quickly.
Be my rock✭ of refuge,
a fortress of defense
to save me.
3 📚For you are my rock
and my fortress;
therefore, for your name’s sake✭,
lead me and guide me.
4 📚✭Pull me out of the net
that they have
secretly laid for me;
for you are my strength.
5 📚✭Into your hands
I commit my spirit.
You have redeemed me,
O LORD God of truth.
6 📚I have hated those
who have regard for
lying vanities,
and I trust in the LORD.
7 📚I will be glad and rejoice
in your mercy,
for you have considered
my trouble;
you have known my soul
in adversities,
8 📚And have not delivered me
into the hand of the enemy.
You have set my feet
in a spacious place.
9 📚✭Have mercy on me,
O LORD, for I am in
trouble;
my eye is consumed
with grief,
yes, my soul
and my body.
10 📚For my life wastes away
with grief,
and my years with sighing.
My strength fails because of my sin,
and my bones are consumed.
11 📚I am an object of reproach
among all my enemies,
but especially among
my neighbours,
and a dread to my acquaintances.
Those who see me outside
run away from me.
12 📚I am forgotten like a dead man,
out of mind.
I am like a broken vessel.
13 📚For I have heard
the slander of many.
Fear was on every side.
When they took counsel
together against me,
they plotted to take away
my life.
14 📚✭But I have trusted in you,
O LORD.
I have said,
“You are my God”.
15 📚✭My times are in your hands.
Deliver me from the hands
of my enemies,
and from those who
persecute me.
16 📚Make your face shine
on your servant.
Save me for your mercies’ sake.
17 📚Let me not be ashamed,
O LORD,
for I have called to you.
Let the wicked be ashamed,
and let them
be silent in the grave✭.
18 📚✭Let lying lips be put
to silence.
They speak bold things
proudly and
contemptuously against
the righteous.
19 📚✭Oh, how great is
your goodness
which you have stored up
for those who fear you,
which you have prepared
for those who trust in you
before the sons of men!
20 📚You will hide them
in the secret place of
your presence
from the pride of man.
You will keep them secretly
in a pavilion from the strife
of tongues.
21 📚Blessed be the LORD,
for he has shown me
his marvellous kindness
in a strong city.
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 out to you.
23 📚✭Oh, love the LORD,
all you who are his saints!
For the LORD preserves
the faithful,
but fully pays back the proud.
24 📚✭Be courageous, and he will
strengthen your heart,
all you who hope in the LORD.