PS-31:1 To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. In thee, O LORD,

 do I put my

trust; let me never be ashamed: deliver me in thy righteousness.

PS-31:2 Bow down thine ear to me; deliver me speedily: be thou

my strong rock,

for an house of defence to save me.

PS-31:3 For thou [art] my rock and my fortress; therefore for

thy name's sake

lead me, and guide me.

PS-31:4 Pull me out of the net that they have laid privily for

me: for thou

[art] my strength.

PS-31:5 Into thine hand I commit my spirit: thou hast redeemed

me, O LORD God

of truth.

PS-31:6 I have hated them that regard lying vanities: but I

trust in the LORD.

PS-31:7 I will be glad and rejoice in thy mercy: for thou hast

considered my

trouble; thou hast known my soul in adversities;

PS-31:8 And hast not shut me up into the hand of the enemy: thou

hast set my

feet in a large room.

PS-31:9 Have mercy upon me, O LORD, for I am in trouble: mine

eye is consumed

with grief, [yea], my soul and my belly.

PS-31:10 For my life is spent with grief, and my years with

sighing: my

strength faileth because of mine iniquity, and my bones are

consumed.

PS-31:11 I was a reproach among all mine enemies, but especially

among my

neighbours, and a fear to mine acquaintance: they that did see

me without fled

from me.

PS-31:12 I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind: I am like a

broken vessel.

PS-31:13 For I have heard the slander of many: fear [was] on

every side: while

they took counsel together against me, they devised to take away

my life.

PS-31:14 But I trusted in thee, O LORD: I said, Thou [art] my

God.

PS-31:15 My times [are] in thy hand: deliver me from the hand of

mine enemies,

and from them that persecute me.

PS-31:16 Make thy face to shine upon thy servant: save me for

thy mercies'

sake.

PS-31:17 Let me not be ashamed, O LORD; for I have called upon

thee: let the

wicked be ashamed, [and] let them be silent in the grave.

PS-31:18 Let the lying lips be put to silence; which speak

grievous things

proudly and contemptuously against the righteous.

PS-31:19 [Oh] how great [is] thy goodness, which thou hast laid

up for them

that fear thee; [which] thou hast wrought for them that trust in

thee before

the sons of men!

PS-31:20 Thou shalt hide them in the secret of thy presence from

the pride of

man: thou shalt keep them secretly in a pavilion from the strife

of tongues.

PS-31:21 Blessed [be] the LORD: for he hath showed me his

marvellous kindness

in a strong city.

PS-31:22 For I said in my haste, I am cut off from before thine

eyes:

nevertheless thou heardest the voice of my supplications when I

cried unto

thee.

PS-31:23 O love the LORD, all ye his saints: [for] the LORD

preserveth the

faithful, and plentifully rewardeth the proud doer.

PS-31:24 Be of good courage, and he shall strengthen your heart,

all ye that

hope in the LORD.

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