Psalm 31:1WEB
In you, Yahweh, I take refuge. Let me never be disappointed. Deliver me in your righteousness.
“Yahweh” is the divine name in this translation. Many Bibles say “the LORD.”
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For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David.
Psalm 31:1WEB
In you, Yahweh, I take refuge. Let me never be disappointed. Deliver me in your righteousness.
“Yahweh” is the divine name in this translation. Many Bibles say “the LORD.”
Psalm 31:2WEB
Bow down your ear to me. Deliver me speedily. Be to me a strong rock, a house of defense to save me.
Psalm 31:3WEB
For you are my rock and my fortress, therefore for your name’s sake lead me and guide me.
Psalm 31:4WEB
Pluck me out of the net that they have laid secretly for me, for you are my stronghold.
Psalm 31:5WEB
Into your hand I commend my spirit. You redeem me, Yahweh, God of truth.
“Yahweh” is the divine name in this translation. Many Bibles say “the LORD.”
Psalm 31:6WEB
I hate those who regard lying vanities, but I trust in Yahweh.
“Yahweh” is the divine name in this translation. Many Bibles say “the LORD.”
Psalm 31:7WEB
I will be glad and rejoice in your loving kindness, for you have seen my affliction. You have known my soul in adversities.
Psalm 31:8WEB
You have not shut me up into the hand of the enemy. You have set my feet in a large place.
Psalm 31:9WEB
Have mercy on me, Yahweh, for I am in distress. My eye, my soul, and my body waste away with grief.
“Yahweh” is the divine name in this translation. Many Bibles say “the LORD.”
Psalm 31:10WEB
For my life is spent with sorrow, my years with sighing. My strength fails because of my iniquity. My bones are wasted away.
Psalm 31:11WEB
Because of all my adversaries I have become utterly contemptible to my neighbors, a horror to my acquaintances. Those who saw me on the street fled from me.
Psalm 31:12WEB
I am forgotten from their hearts like a dead man. I am like broken pottery.
Psalm 31:13WEB
For I have heard the slander of many, terror on every side, while they conspire together against me, they plot to take away my life.
Psalm 31:14WEB
But I trust in you, Yahweh. I said, “You are my God.”
“Yahweh” is the divine name in this translation. Many Bibles say “the LORD.”
Psalm 31:15WEB
My times are in your hand. Deliver me from the hand of my enemies, and from those who persecute me.
Psalm 31:16WEB
Make your face to shine on your servant. Save me in your loving kindness.
Psalm 31:17WEB
Let me not be disappointed, Yahweh, for I have called on you. Let the wicked be disappointed. Let them be silent in Sheol.
“Yahweh” is the divine name in this translation. Many Bibles say “the LORD.”
Psalm 31:18WEB
Let the lying lips be mute, which speak against the righteous insolently, with pride and contempt.
Psalm 31:19WEB
Oh how great is your goodness, which you have laid up for those who fear you, which you have worked for those who take refuge in you, before the sons of men!
Psalm 31:20WEB
In the shelter of your presence you will hide them from the plotting of man. You will keep them secretly in a dwelling away from the strife of tongues.
Psalm 31:21WEB
Praise be to Yahweh, for he has shown me his marvelous loving kindness in a strong city.
“Yahweh” is the divine name in this translation. Many Bibles say “the LORD.”
Psalm 31:22WEB
As for me, I said in my haste, “I am cut off from before your eyes.” Nevertheless you heard the voice of my petitions when I cried to you.
Psalm 31:23WEB
Oh love Yahweh, all you his saints! Yahweh preserves the faithful, and fully recompenses him who behaves arrogantly.
“Yahweh” is the divine name in this translation. Many Bibles say “the LORD.”
Psalm 31:24WEB
Be strong, and let your heart take courage, all you who hope in Yahweh.
“Yahweh” is the divine name in this translation. Many Bibles say “the LORD.”
Scripture quotations are from the World English Bible, which is in the public domain.