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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" /><title>Psalm 31 ESV</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head> <script async src="https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=G-LR4HSKRP2H"></script> <script> window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);} gtag('js', new Date()); gtag('config', 'G-LR4HSKRP2H'); </script><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/psalms/31.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/psalms/31-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">ESV</a> > Psalm 31</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../psalms/30.htm" title="Psalm 30">◄</a> Psalm 31 <a href="../psalms/32.htm" title="Psalm 32">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">English Standard Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/esv/nas/psalms/31.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div></a><div class="chap"><p class="heading">Into Your Hand I Commit My Spirit</p><subheading class="psalm-title">To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David.</subheading><span class="block-indent"><p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/31-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">In you, O <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, do I take refuge;</span><br /><span class="indent">let me never be put to shame;</span><br /><span class="indent">in your righteousness deliver me!</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/31-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Incline your ear to me;</span><br /><span class="indent">rescue me speedily!</span><br /><span class="ln-group">Be a rock of refuge for me,</span><br /><span class="indent">a strong fortress to save me!</span></p> <p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/31-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">For you are my rock and my fortress;</span><br /><span class="indent">and for your name’s sake you lead me and guide me;</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/31-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">you take me out of the net they have hidden for me,</span><br /><span class="indent">for you are my refuge.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/31-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Into your hand I commit my spirit;</span><br /><span class="indent">you have redeemed me, O <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, faithful God.</span></p> <p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/31-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">I hate<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Masoretic Text; one Hebrew manuscript, Septuagint, Syriac, Jerome You hate">a</a></sup></span> those who pay regard to worthless idols,</span><br /><span class="indent">but I trust in the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/31-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">I will rejoice and be glad in your steadfast love,</span><br /><span class="indent">because you have seen my affliction;</span><br /><span class="indent">you have known the distress of my soul,</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/31-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">and you have not delivered me into the hand of the enemy;</span><br /><span class="indent">you have set my feet in a broad place.</span></p> <p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/31-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Be gracious to me, O <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, for I am in distress;</span><br /><span class="indent">my eye is wasted from grief;</span><br /><span class="indent">my soul and my body also.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/31-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">For my life is spent with sorrow,</span><br /><span class="indent">and my years with sighing;</span><br /><span class="ln-group">my strength fails because of my iniquity,</span><br /><span class="indent">and my bones waste away.</span></p> <p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/31-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Because of all my adversaries I have become a reproach,</span><br /><span class="indent">especially to my neighbors,</span><br /><span class="ln-group">and an object of dread to my acquaintances;</span><br /><span class="indent">those who see me in the street flee from me.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/31-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">I have been forgotten like one who is dead;</span><br /><span class="indent">I have become like a broken vessel.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/31-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">For I hear the whispering of many—</span><br /><span class="indent">terror on every side!—</span><br /><span class="ln-group">as they scheme together against me,</span><br /><span class="indent">as they plot to take my life.</span></p> <p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/31-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">But I trust in you, O <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>;</span><br /><span class="indent">I say, “You are my God.”</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/31-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">My times are in your hand;</span><br /><span class="indent">rescue me from the hand of my enemies and from my persecutors!</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/31-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Make your face shine on your servant;</span><br /><span class="indent">save me in your steadfast love!</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/31-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">O <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, let me not be put to shame,</span><br /><span class="indent">for I call upon you;</span><br /><span class="ln-group">let the wicked be put to shame;</span><br /><span class="indent">let them go silently to Sheol.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/31-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Let the lying lips be mute,</span><br /><span class="indent">which speak insolently against the righteous</span><br /><span class="indent">in pride and contempt.</span></p> <p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/31-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Oh, how abundant is your goodness,</span><br /><span class="indent">which you have stored up for those who fear you</span><br /><span class="ln-group">and worked for those who take refuge in you,</span><br /><span class="indent">in the sight of the children of mankind!</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/31-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">In the cover of your presence you hide them</span><br /><span class="indent">from the plots of men;</span><br /><span class="ln-group">you store them in your shelter</span><br /><span class="indent">from the strife of tongues.</span></p> <p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/31-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Blessed be the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>,</span><br /><span class="indent">for he has wondrously shown his steadfast love to me</span><br /><span class="indent">when I was in a besieged city.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/31-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">I had said in my alarm,<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or in my haste">b</a></sup></span></span><br /><span class="indent">“I am cut off from your sight.”</span><br /><span class="ln-group">But you heard the voice of my pleas for mercy</span><br /><span class="indent">when I cried to you for help.</span></p> <p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/31-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Love the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, all you his saints!</span><br /><span class="indent">The <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> preserves the faithful</span><br /><span class="indent">but abundantly repays the one who acts in pride.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/31-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Be strong, and let your heart take courage,</span><br /><span class="indent">all you who wait for the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>!</span></p><A name="footnotes"></a><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="footnotesbot">a</span> <span class="fnverse">6</span> Masoretic Text; one Hebrew manuscript, Septuagint, Syriac, Jerome <i>You hate</i><br /><span class="footnotesbot">b</span> <span class="fnverse">22</span> Or <i><span class="catch-word">in my</span> haste</i><br /></span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">ESV Text Edition® (2016).<br /><br />The ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®) copyright © 2001 by <a href="http://www.crossway.org/home/esv/">Crossway Bibles</a>, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. 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