#### Psalms 31

Verses : {1} {2} {3} {4} {5} {6} {7} {8} {9} {10} {11} {12} {13} {14} {15} {16} {17} {18} {19} {20} {21} {22} {23} {24}

^ Ps 31.1: (31.1) To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. (31.2) In thee, O LORD, do I put my trust; let me never be ashamed: deliver me in thy righteousness.
^ Ps 31.2: (31.3) 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: (31.4) For thou [art] my rock and my fortress; therefore for thy name's sake lead me, and guide me.
^ Ps 31.4: (31.5) Pull me out of the net that they have laid privily for me: for thou [art] my strength.
^ Ps 31.5: (31.6) Into thine hand I commit my spirit: thou hast redeemed me, O LORD God of truth.
^ Ps 31.6: (31.7) I have hated them that regard lying vanities: but I trust in the LORD.
^ Ps 31.7: (31.8) 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: (31.9) And hast not shut me up into the hand of the enemy: thou hast set my feet in a large room.
^ Ps 31.9: (31.10) 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: (31.11) 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: (31.12) 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: (31.13) I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind: I am like a broken vessel.
^ Ps 31.13: (31.14) 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: (31.15) But I trusted in thee, O LORD: I said, Thou [art] my God.
^ Ps 31.15: (31.16) My times [are] in thy hand: deliver me from the hand of mine enemies, and from them that persecute me.
^ Ps 31.16: (31.17) Make thy face to shine upon thy servant: save me for thy mercies' sake.
^ Ps 31.17: (31.18) 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: (31.19) Let the lying lips be put to silence; which speak grievous things proudly and contemptuously against the righteous.
^ Ps 31.19: (31.20) [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: (31.21) 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: (31.22) Blessed [be] the LORD: for he hath shewed me his marvellous kindness in a strong city.
^ Ps 31.22: (31.23) 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: (31.24) O love the LORD, all ye his saints: [for] the LORD preserveth the faithful, and plentifully rewardeth the proud doer.
^ Ps 31.24: (31.25) Be of good courage, and he shall strengthen your heart, all ye that hope in the LORD.