Psalms 31:1-15 ▼

1 For the one directing. A Psalm of David. In You, O YHWH, I have taken refuge; do not let me be ashamed forever; in Your righteousness, deliver me!

2 Incline Your ear to me, and quickly deliver me. Be for me as a rock of refuge, as a house of strongholds to save me.

3 For You are my rock and my stronghold; and for the sake of Your name, You will lead me and guide me.

4 You will bring me out from the net that they have hidden for me, because You are my refuge.

5 Into Your hand I commit my spirit; You have redeemed me, O YHWH, God of truth.

6 I have hated those serving worthless idols; and I toward YHWH place my trust.

7 I will rejoice and be glad in Your loving devotion—in that You have seen my affliction, and you knew of the distress of my soul.

8 And You did not shut me up in the hand of the enemy, You set my feet on a broad place.

9 Show favor to me, O YHWH, for there is distress for me! My eye, my soul, and my belly have wasted away with grief.

10 For my life has been consumed with grief, and my years with groaning; my strength fails in my iniquity, and my bones are wasting away.

11 Among all my enemies I am an object of scorn, even to my neighbors, and a source of dread, exceedingly to those who know me; those seeing me in the street flee from me!

12 I have been forgotten like a dead man from the heart; I am perishing like a vessel.

13 For I have heard the slander of many, terror from round about, in their taking counsel together against me; they have plotted to take my life.

14 Yet I have trusted in You, O YHWH; I say, “You are My God.”

15 In Your hand are my times; deliver me from the hand of my enemies, and from those pursuing me.