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A PSALM OF DAVID. In You, O YHWH, I have trusted, "" Do not let me be ashamed for all time, "" In Your righteousness deliver me.<p> <A name="3"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/31-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>Incline Your ear to me quickly, deliver me, "" Be to me for a strong rock, "" For a house of bulwarks to save me.<p> <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/31-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>For You [are] my rock and my bulwark, "" For Your Name’s sake lead me and tend me.<p> <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/31-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Bring me out from the net that they hid for me, "" For You [are] my strength.<p> <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/31-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Into Your hand I commit my spirit, "" You have redeemed me, YHWH God of truth.<p> <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/31-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>I have hated the observers of lying vanities, "" And I have been confident toward YHWH.<p> <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/31-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>I rejoice, and am glad in Your kindness, "" In that You have seen my affliction, "" You have known my soul in adversities.<p> <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/31-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>And You have not shut me up, "" Into the hand of an enemy, "" You have caused my feet to stand in a broad place.<p> <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/31-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Favor me, O YHWH, for distress [is] to me, "" My eye, my soul, and my body "" Have become old by provocation.<p> <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/31-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>For my life has been consumed in sorrow "" And my years in sighing. My strength has been feeble because of my iniquity, "" And my bones have become old.<p> <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/31-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>I have been a reproach among all my adversaries, "" And to my neighbors exceedingly, "" And a fear to my acquaintances, "" Those seeing me without—fled from me.<p> <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/31-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>I have been forgotten as dead, out of mind, "" I have been as a perishing vessel.<p> <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/31-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>For I have heard an evil account of many, "" Fear [is] all around. In their being united against me, "" They have devised to take my life,<p> <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/31-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>And I have trusted on You, "" O YHWH, I have said, “You [are] my God.”<p> <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/31-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>In Your hand [are] my times, "" Deliver me from the hand of my enemies, "" And from my pursuers.<p> <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/31-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Cause Your face to shine on Your servant, "" Save me in Your kindness.<p> <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/31-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>O YHWH, do not let me be ashamed, "" For I have called You, let the wicked be ashamed, "" Let them become silent to Sheol.<p> <A name="19"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/31-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>Let lips of falsehood become mute, "" That are speaking against the righteous, "" Ancient sayings, in pride and contempt.<p> <A name="20"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/31-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>How abundant is Your goodness, "" That You have laid up for those fearing You, "" You have worked for those trusting in You, "" Before sons of men.<p> <A name="21"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/31-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>You hide them in the secret place of Your presence, "" From schemes of man, "" You conceal them in a dwelling place, "" From the strife of tongues.<p> <A name="22"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/31-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>Blessed [is] YHWH, "" For He has made His kindness marvelous "" To me in a city of bulwarks.<p> <A name="23"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/31-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>And I have said in my haste, “I have been cut off from before Your eyes,” "" But You have heard the voice of my supplications, "" In my crying to You.<p> <A name="24"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/31-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>Love YHWH, all you His saints, "" YHWH is keeping the faithful, "" And repaying a proud doer abundantly.<p> <A name=""></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/31-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>Be strong, and He strengthens your heart, "" All you who are waiting for YHWH!<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Literal Standard Version<br>Copyright © 2022 by Covenant Press. 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