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Psalms 31
Unto the end, a psalm for David, in an ecstasy.
In thee, O Lord, have I hoped, Iet me never be confounded:
deliver me in thy justice.
Bow down thy ear to me: make haste to deliver me. Be
thou unto me a God, a protector, and a house of refuge,
to save me.
For thou art my strength and my refuge; and for thy
name's sake thou wilt lead me, and nourish me.
Thou wilt bring me out of this snare, which they have
hidden for me: for thou art my protector.
Into thy hands I commend my spirit: thou hast redeemed
me, O Lord, the God of truth.
Thou hast hated them that regard vanities, to no purpose.
But I have hoped in the Lord:
I will be glad and rejoice in thy mercy. For thou best
regarded my humility, thou hast saved my soul out of
distresses.
And thou hast not shut me up in the hands of the enemy:
thou hast set my feet in a spacious place.
Have mercy on me, O Lord, for I am afflicted: my eye
is troubled with wrath, my soul, and my belly:
For my life is wasted with grief: and my years in sighs.
My strength is weakened through poverty and my bones
are disturbed.
I am become a reproach among all my enemies, and very
much to my neighbours; and a fear to my acquaintance.
They that saw me without fled from me.
I am forgotten as one dead from the heart. I am become
as a vessel that is destroyed.
For I have heard the blame of many that dwell round
about. While they assembled together against me, they
consulted to take away my life.
But I have put my trust in thee, O Lord: I said: Thou
art my God.
My lots are in thy hands. Deliver me out of the hands
of my enemies; and from them that persecute me.
Make thy face to shine upon thy servant; save me in
thy mercy.
Let me not be confounded, O Lord, for I have called
upon thee. Let the wicked be ashamed, and be brought
down to hell.
Let deceitful lips be made dumb. Which speak iniquity
against the just, with pride and abuse.
O how great is the multitude of thy sweetness, O Lord,
which thou hast hidden for them that fear thee! Which
thou hast wrought for them that hope in thee, in the
sight of the sons of men.
Thou shalt hide them in the secret of thy face, from
the disturbance of men. Thou shalt protect them in thy
tabernacle from the contradiction of tongues.
Blessed be the Lord, for he hath shewn his wonderful
mercy to me in a fortified city.
But I said in the excess of my mind: I am cast away
from before thy eyes. Therefore thou hast heard the
voice of my prayer, when I cried to thee.
O love the Lord, all ye his saints: for the Lord will
require truth, and will repay them abundantly that act
proudly.
Do ye manfully, and let your heart be strengthened,
all ye that hope in the Lord. |