Psalms 31
31
Yahweh Is a Fortress
For the music director. A psalm of David.#The Hebrew Bible counts the superscription as the first verse of the psalm; the English verse number is reduced by one
1In you, O Yahweh, I have taken refuge.
Let me not be put to shame ever.
Deliver me by your righteousness.
2Incline your ear to me.
Quickly deliver me.
Become my rock of refuge,
a fortified keep#Literally “a house of strongholds” to save me.
3For you are my rock and my fortress.
So, for the sake of your name,
lead me and guide me.
4Bring me out of the net that they have secretly set for me,
for you are my refuge.
5Into your hand I commit my spirit.
You have redeemed me, O Yahweh, faithful God.#Or “God of truth”
6I hate those devoted to useless idols,
but I trust Yahweh.
7I will exult and rejoice in your loyal love.
Because you have seen my misery,
you know the distresses of my life.#Or “soul”
8And you have not delivered me
into the hand of the enemy.
You have set my feet in a broad place.
9Be gracious to me, O Yahweh,
because I have distress.
My eye wastes away because of vexation,
along with my soul and my body.#Literally “belly”
10For my life is at an end with sorrow,
and my years with sighing.
My strength stumbles because of my iniquity,
and my bones waste away.
11Because of all my adversaries I have become a disgrace,
especially to my neighbors,
and a dread to my acquaintances.
Those who see me in the street flee from me.
12I have become forgotten like one dead, out of mind.#Literally “heart”
I am like a destroyed vessel.
13For I hear the rumor of many,
“Terror on every side!”
When conspiring together against me,
they have plotted to take my life.
14But as for me, I trust you, O Yahweh.
I say, “You are my God.”
15My times#Or “destiny” are in your hand.
Deliver me from the hand of my enemies
and from those who pursue me.
16Shine your face upon your servant.
Save me by your loyal love.
17O Yahweh, let me not be put to shame, for I call on you.
Let the wicked be put to shame.
Let them go silently#Or “let them with wailing enter” to Sheol.
18Let lying lips be dumb,
that speak against the righteous#Or “the innocent one” unrestrained
with arrogance and contempt.
19How abundant is your goodness
that you have stored up for those who fear you,
that you perform for those who take refuge in you
before the children of humankind.
20You will hide them in the protection of your presence
from the plots of man.
You will hide them in a shelter from the strife of tongues.
21Blessed is Yahweh,
because he has worked marvelously his loyal love to me
in a besieged city.
22As for me, I said in my alarm,
“I am cut off from before your eyes.”
However you heard the voice of my supplications
when I cried to you for help.
23Love Yahweh, all you his faithful ones.
Yahweh preserves the faithful
but repays abundantly the one who acts arrogantly.
24Be strong and let your#Plural heart show strength,
all you who wait for Yahweh.
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