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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 Brenton's Septuagint Translation</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="../">Brenton</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 width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="../menu.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table><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">Brenton's Septuagint Translation</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/parallel/psalms/31-1.htm" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Verses"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><A name="2"></a><p class="hdg">Into Your Hands I Commit My Spirit<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/31-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span><font color=blue>(30:1)</font> For the end, a Psalm of David, <i>an utterance</i> of extreme fear. O Lord, I have hoped in thee; let me never be ashamed: deliver me in thy righteousness and rescue me.<p> <A name="3"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/31-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span><font color=blue>(30:2)</font> Incline thine ear to me; make haste to rescue me: be thou to me for a protecting God, and for a house of refuge to save me.<p> <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/31-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span><font color=blue>(30:3)</font> For thou art my strength and my refuge; and thou shalt guide me for thy name's sake, and maintain me.<p> <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/31-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span><font color=blue>(30:4)</font> Thou shalt bring me out of the snare which they have hidden for me; for thou, O Lord, art my defender.<p> <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/31-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><font color=blue>(30:5)</font> Into thine hands I will commit my spirit: thou hast redeemed me, O Lord God of truth.<p> <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/31-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span><font color=blue>(30:6)</font> Thou has hated them that idly persist in vanities: but I have hoped in the Lord.<p> <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/31-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><font color=blue>(30:7)</font> I will exult and be glad in thy mercy: for thou hast looked upon mine affliction; thou hast saved my soul from distresses.<p> <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/31-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><font color=blue>(30:8)</font> And thou hast not shut me up into the hands of the enemy: thou hast set my feet in a wide place.<p> <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/31-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><font color=blue>(30:9)</font> Pity me, O Lord, for I am afflicted: my eye is troubled with indignation, my soul and by belly.<p> <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/31-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><font color=blue>(30:10)</font> For my life is spent with grief, and my years with groanings: my strength has been weakened through poverty, and my bones are troubled.<p> <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/31-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span><font color=blue>(30:11)</font> I became a reproach among all mine enemies, but exceedingly so to my neighbours, and a fear to mine acquaintance: they that saw me without fled from me.<p> <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/31-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span><font color=blue>(30:12)</font> I have been forgotten as a dead man out of mind: I am become as a broken vessel.<p> <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/31-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span><font color=blue>(30:13)</font> For I heard the slander of many that dwelt round about: when they were gathered together against me, they took counsel to take my life.<p> <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/31-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span><font color=blue>(30:14)</font> But I hoped in thee, O Lord: I said, Thou art my God.<p> <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/31-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span><font color=blue>(30:15)</font> My lots are in thy hands: deliver me from the hand of mine enemies,<p> <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/31-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span><font color=blue>(30:16)</font> and from them that persecute me. Make thy face to shine upon thy servant: save me in thy mercy.<p> <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/31-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span><font color=blue>(30:17)</font> O Lord, let me not be ashamed, for I have called upon thee: let the ungodly be ashamed, and brought down to Hades.<p> <A name="19"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/31-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span><font color=blue>(30:18)</font> Let the deceitful lips become dumb, which speak iniquity against the righteous with pride and scorn.<p> <A name="20"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/31-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span><font color=blue>(30:19)</font> How abundant is the multitude of thy goodness, O Lord, which thou hast laid up for them that fear thee! thou hast wrought <i>it</i> out for them that hope on thee, in the presence of the sons of men.<p> <A name="21"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/31-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span><font color=blue>(30:20)</font> Thou wilt hide them in the secret of thy presence from the vexation of man: thou wilt screen them in a tabernacle from the contradiction of tongues.<p> <A name="22"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/31-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span><font color=blue>(30:21)</font> Blessed be the Lord: for he has magnified his mercy in a fortified city.<p> <A name="23"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/31-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span><font color=blue>(30:22)</font> But I said in my extreme fear, I am cast out from the sight of thine eyes: therefore thou didst hearken, O Lord, to the voice of my supplication when I cried to thee.<p> <A name="24"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/31-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span><font color=blue>(30:23)</font> Love the Lord, all ye his saints: for the Lord seeks for truth, and renders <i>a reward</i> to them that deal very proudly.<p> <A name=""></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/31-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span><font color=blue>(30:24)</font> Be of good courage, and let your heart be strengthened, all ye that hope in the Lord.<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The English translation of The Septuagint by Sir Lancelot Charles Lee Brenton (1851)<br><br>Section Headings Courtesy <a href="https://berean.bible">Berean Bible</i><span class="p"><br /><br /></span></div></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../psalms/30.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Psalm 30"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Psalm 30" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../psalms/32.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Psalm 32"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Psalm 32" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhchapnoad.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>