Psalms 31:2-24 ▼

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.

16 Cause Your face to shine upon Your servant; save me in Your loving devotion.

17 O YHWH, do not let me be ashamed, for I have called to You. Let the wicked be ashamed; let them be silent in Sheol.

18 Let the lips of falsehood become dumb, those speaking against the righteous with arrogance, with pride and contempt.

19 How great is Your goodness, which You have laid up for those fearing You, which you have prepared for those taking refuge in You before the sons of man!

20 You shall hide them in the hidden place of Your presence, from the plots of man; you shall store them in a shelter, from the strife of tongues.

21 Blessed be YHWH, for He has made marvelous His loving devotion to me, in a city under siege.

22 For I said in my haste, “I am cut off from before Your eyes!” Surely You heard the voice of my supplications, in my crying out to You.

23 Love YHWH, all you His holy ones! YHWH is watching the faithful and recompensing the worker of pride in excess.

24 Hold firm, and He shall strengthen your⁺ heart, all those waiting for YHWH.