Psalm 31

A Profession of Trust

¹In thee, O Lord , do I put my trust;

let me never be ashamed:

deliver me in thy righteousness.

²Bow down thine ear to me;

deliver me speedily:

be thou my strong rock,

for a house of defense to save me.

³For thou art my rock and my fortress;

therefore for thy name's sake lead me, and guide me.

⁴Pull me out of the net that they have laid privily for me:

for thou art my strength.

⁵Into thine hand I commit my spirit:[#Luke 23.46.]

thou hast redeemed me, O Lord God of truth.

⁶I have hated them that regard lying vanities:

but I trust in the Lord .

⁷I will be glad and rejoice in thy mercy:

for thou hast considered my trouble;

thou hast known my soul in adversities;

⁸and hast not shut me up into the hand of the enemy:

thou hast set my feet in a large room.

⁹Have mercy upon me, O Lord , for I am in trouble:

mine eye is consumed with grief,

yea , my soul and my belly.

¹⁰For my life is spent with grief,

and my years with sighing:

my strength faileth because of mine iniquity,

and my bones are consumed.

¹¹I was a reproach among all mine enemies,

but especially among my neighbors,

and a fear to mine acquaintance:

they that did see me without fled from me.

¹²I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind:

I am like a broken vessel.

¹³For I have heard the slander of many:

fear was on every side:

while they took counsel together against me,

they devised to take away my life.

¹⁴But I trusted in thee, O Lord :

I said, Thou art my God.

¹⁵My times are in thy hand:

deliver me from the hand of mine enemies,

and from them that persecute me.

¹⁶Make thy face to shine upon thy servant:

save me for thy mercies' sake.

¹⁷Let me not be ashamed, O Lord ;

for I have called upon thee:

let the wicked be ashamed,

and let them be silent in the grave.

¹⁸Let the lying lips be put to silence;

which speak grievous things

proudly and contemptuously against the righteous.

¹⁹Oh how great is thy goodness,

which thou hast laid up for them that fear thee;

which thou hast wrought for them that trust in thee

before the sons of men!

²⁰Thou shalt hide them in the secret of thy presence

from the pride of man:

thou shalt keep them secretly in a pavilion

from the strife of tongues.

²¹Blessed be the Lord :

for he hath showed me his marvelous kindness in a strong city.

²²For I said in my haste,

I am cut off from before thine eyes:

nevertheless thou heardest the voice of my supplications

when I cried unto thee.

²³O love the Lord , all ye his saints:

for the Lord preserveth the faithful,

and plentifully rewardeth the proud doer.

²⁴Be of good courage, and he shall strengthen your heart,

all ye that hope in the Lord .