Tehillim 31

²In Thee, Hashem , do I take refuge;

let me never be put to shame;

deliver me in Thy tzedakah.

³Incline Thine ear to me;

deliver me speedily;

be Thou for me a Tzur Ma'oz,

a Bais Metzudot (fortress) to save me.

⁴For Thou art my Sela (rock) and my Metzudah (fortress) ;

therefore for the sake of Thy Name, lead me, and guide me.

⁵Pull me out of the reshet (trap, net)

that they have laid for me;

for Thou art my ma'oz (stronghold) .

⁶Into Thine yad I commit my ruach;

Thou hast redeemed me, Hashem El Emes.

⁷I hate them that are the shomrim of lying vanities;[#31:7 i.e., idols]

but I trust in Hashem .

⁸I will be glad and rejoice in Thy chesed;

for Thou hast seen my affliction;

Thou hast known the tzoros (troubles) of my nefesh;

⁹And hast not shut me up into the yad of the oyev (enemy) ;

Thou hast set my feet in a merkhav

(large place, spacious or broad place) .

¹⁰Channeni, Hashem , for I am in tzoros;

mine eye is consumed with ka'as (grief) ,

my nefesh and my beten.

¹¹For my life is spent with grief,

and my years with groaning;

my ko'ach faileth because of mine avon (iniquity) ,

and my atzmot waste away.

¹²I was a cherpah (reproach, scorn, disgrace) among all mine enemies,

but especially among my shchenim (neighbors) ,

and a dread to mine acquaintance;

they that did see me outside fled from me.

¹³I am forgotten like a dead man out of mind;

I am like a keli oved (broken vessel) .

¹⁴For I have heard the dibbah (evil report, slander) of many;

terror was on every side;

while they conspire against me,

they plot to take my nefesh.

¹⁵But I trust in Thee, Hashem ;

I said, Thou art Elohai.

¹⁶My times are in Thy yad;

deliver me from the yad of mine oyevim (enemies) ,

and from them that persecute me.

¹⁷Make Thy face to shine upon Thy eved;

hoshi'eini (save me) for the sake of Thy chesed.

¹⁸Let me not be put to shame, Hashem ;

for I have called upon Thee;

let the resha'im be put to shame,

and let them keep silent in Sheol.

¹⁹Let the siftei sheker (lying lips) be put to silence;

which speak insolent things with ga'avah (pride)

and contemptuously against the tzaddik.

²⁰Oh how great is Thy goodness,

which Thou hast stored up for them that fear Thee;

which Thou hast wrought for them that take refuge in Thee

before the Bnei Adam!

²¹Thou shalt hide them b'seter (in the shelter) of Thy presence

from the intrigues of ish;

Thou shalt keep them safe in a sukkah

from the riv l'shonot (the strife of tongues, contentious lashon hora, backbiting, slander) .

²²Baruch Hashem ! For He hath showed me

His wondrous chesed in an Ir Matzor (besieged city) .

²³For I said in my haste,

I am cut off from before Thine eyes;

nevertheless Thou heardest the voice of my tachanun (supplications)

when unto Thee I cried for help.

²⁴O love Hashem , all ye His Chasidim;

for Hashem preserveth the emunim (the faithful ones) ,

but He pays back in full the oseh ga'avah (the one acting in pride, haughtily) .

²⁵Chazak! Be strong, let your levav take courage,

all ye that hope in Hashem .