Psalms 31 (30:1) For the end, a Psalm of David, an utterance of extreme fear. O Lord, I have hoped in thee; let me never be ashamed: deliver me in thy righteousness and rescue me.

Brenton⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹ ^(30:1) For the end, a Psalm of David, an utterance of extreme fear. O Lord, I have hoped in thee; let me never be ashamed: deliver me in thy righteousness and rescue me. ² ^(30:2) Incline thine ear to me; make haste to rescue me: be thou to me for a protecting God, and for a house of refuge to save me. ³ ^(30:3) For thou art my strength and my refuge; and thou shalt guide me for thy name's sake, and maintain me. ⁴ ^(30:4) Thou shalt bring me out of the snare which they have hidden for me; for thou, O Lord, art my defender. ⁵ ^(30:5) Into thine hands I will commit my spirit: thou hast redeemed me, O Lord God of truth. ⁶ ^(30:6) Thou has hated them that idly persist in vanities: but I have hoped in the Lord. ⁷ ^(30:7) I will exult and be glad in thy mercy: for thou hast looked upon mine affliction; thou hast saved my soul from distresses. ⁸ ^(30:8) And thou hast not shut me up into the hands of the enemy: thou hast set my feet in a wide place. ⁹ ^(30:9) Pity me, O Lord, for I am afflicted: my eye is troubled with indignation, my soul and by belly. ¹⁰ ^(30:10) For my life is spent with grief, and my years with groanings: my strength has been weakened through poverty, and my bones are troubled. ¹¹ ^(30:11) I became a reproach among all mine enemies, but exceedingly so to my neighbours, and a fear to mine acquaintance: they that saw me without fled from me. ¹² ^(30:12) I have been forgotten as a dead man out of mind: I am become as a broken vessel. ¹³ ^(30:13) For I heard the slander of many that dwelt round about: when they were gathered together against me, they took counsel to take my life. ¹⁴ ^(30:14) But I hoped in thee, O Lord: I said, Thou art my God. ¹⁵ ^(30:15) My lots are in thy hands: deliver me from the hand of mine enemies, ¹⁶ ^(30:16) and from them that persecute me. Make thy face to shine upon thy servant: save me in thy mercy. ¹⁷ ^(30:17) O Lord, let me not be ashamed, for I have called upon thee: let the ungodly be ashamed, and brought down to Hades. ¹⁸ ^(30:18) Let the deceitful lips become dumb, which speak iniquity against the righteous with pride and scorn. ¹⁹ ^(30:19) How abundant is the multitude of thy goodness, O Lord, which thou hast laid up for them that fear thee! thou hast wrought it out for them that hope on thee, in the presence of the sons of men. ²⁰ ^(30:20) Thou wilt hide them in the secret of thy presence from the vexation of man: thou wilt screen them in a tabernacle from the contradiction of tongues. ²¹ ^(30:21) Blessed be the Lord: for he has magnified his mercy in a fortified city. ²² ^(30:22) But I said in my extreme fear, I am cast out from the sight of thine eyes: therefore thou didst hearken, O Lord, to the voice of my supplication when I cried to thee. ²³ ^(30:23) Love the Lord, all ye his saints: for the Lord seeks for truth, and renders a reward to them that deal very proudly. ²⁴ ^(30:24) Be of good courage, and let your heart be strengthened, all ye that hope in the Lord.