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A Psalm of David.</span></h4><div class="poetry"><p class="line"><span class="text"><span class="versenum">1</span>In you, O <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>, I seek refuge;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">do not let me ever be put to shame;</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">in your righteousness deliver me.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">2</span>Incline your ear to me;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">rescue me speedily.</span></span><br /><span class="text">Be a rock of refuge for me,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">a strong fortress to save me.</span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">3</span>You are indeed my rock and my fortress;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">for your name’s sake lead me and guide me,</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">4</span>take me out of the net that is hidden for me,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">for you are my refuge.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">5</span>Into your hand I commit my spirit;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">you have redeemed me, O <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>, faithful God.</span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">6</span>You hate<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-16408a" title="See footnote a">a</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote a">a</a>]</span> those who pay regard to worthless idols,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">but I trust in the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">7</span>I will exult and rejoice in your steadfast love,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">because you have seen my affliction;</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">you have taken heed of my adversities,</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">8</span>and have not delivered me into the hand of the enemy;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">you have set my feet in a broad place.</span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">9</span>Be gracious to me, O <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>, for I am in distress;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">my eye wastes away from grief,</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">my soul and body also.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">10</span>For my life is spent with sorrow,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">and my years with sighing;</span></span><br /><span class="text">my strength fails because of my misery,<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-16412b" title="See footnote b">b</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote b">b</a>]</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">and my bones waste away.</span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">11</span>I am the scorn of all my adversaries,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">a horror<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-16413c" title="See footnote c">c</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote c">c</a>]</span> to my neighbors,</span></span><br /><span class="text">an object of dread to my acquaintances;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">those who see me in the street flee from me.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">12</span>I have passed out of mind like one who is dead;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">I have become like a broken vessel.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">13</span>For I hear the whispering of many—</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">terror all around!—</span></span><br /><span class="text">as they scheme together against me,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">as they plot to take my life.</span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">14</span>But I trust in you, O <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">I say, “You are my God.”</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">15</span>My times are in your hand;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">deliver me from the hand of my enemies and persecutors.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">16</span>Let your face shine upon your servant;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">save me in your steadfast love.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">17</span>Do not let me be put to shame, O <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">for I call on you;</span></span><br /><span class="text">let the wicked be put to shame;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">let them go dumbfounded to Sheol.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">18</span>Let the lying lips be stilled</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">that speak insolently against the righteous</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">with pride and contempt.</span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">19</span>O how abundant is your goodness</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">that you have laid up for those who fear you,</span></span><br /><span class="text">and accomplished for those who take refuge in you,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">in the sight of everyone!</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">20</span>In the shelter of your presence you hide them</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">from human plots;</span></span><br /><span class="text">you hold them safe under your shelter</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">from contentious tongues.</span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">21</span>Blessed be the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">for he has wondrously shown his steadfast love to me</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">when I was beset as a city under siege.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">22</span>I had said in my alarm,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">“I am driven far<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-16424d" title="See footnote d">d</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote d">d</a>]</span> from your sight.”</span></span><br /><span class="text">But you heard my supplications</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">when I cried out to you for help.</span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">23</span>Love the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>, all you his saints.</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">The <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> preserves the faithful,</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">but abundantly repays the one who acts haughtily.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">24</span>Be strong, and let your heart take courage,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">all you who wait for the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>.</span></span></p></div> <A name="fen"></a><div class="footnotes"><h4>Footnotes</h4><ol><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Psalm 31:6">Psalm 31:6</a> <span class='footnote-text'>One Heb Ms Gk Syr Jerome: MT <i>I hate</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Psalm 31:10">Psalm 31:10</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Gk Syr: Heb <i>my iniquity</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Psalm 31:11">Psalm 31:11</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Cn: Heb <i>exceedingly</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Psalm 31:22">Psalm 31:22</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Another reading is <i>cut off</i></span></li></ol></div> <!--end of footnotes--></div></div></div></div></div> </div> </div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Scripture quotations are from the New Revised Standard Version Bible: Catholic Edition, copyright © 1989, 1993 National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. 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