­PSA 31:1  In thee, O LORD, do I put my trust; let me never be ashamed: deliver

 me in thy righteousness.

 

­PSA 31:2  Bow down thine ear to me; deliver me speedily: be thou my strong

 rock, for an house of defence to save me.

 

­PSA 31:3  For thou art my rock and my fortress; therefore for thy name's sake

 lead me, and guide me.

 

­PSA 31:4  Pull me out of the net that they have laid privily for me: for thou

 art my strength.

 

­PSA 31:5  Into thine hand I commit my spirit: thou hast redeemed me, O LORD God

 of truth.

 

­PSA 31:6  I have hated them that regard lying vanities: but I trust in the

 LORD.

 

­PSA 31:7  I will be glad and rejoice in thy mercy: for thou hast considered my

 trouble; thou hast known my soul in adversities;

 

­PSA 31:8  And hast not shut me up into the hand of the enemy: thou hast set my

 feet in a large room.

 

­PSA 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.

 

­PSA 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.

 

­PSA 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.

 

­PSA 31:12  I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind: I am like a broken vessel.

 

­PSA 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.

 

­PSA 31:14  But I trusted in thee, O LORD: I said, Thou art my God.

 

­PSA 31:15  My times are in thy hand: deliver me from the hand of mine enemies,

 and from them that persecute me.

 

­PSA 31:16  Make thy face to shine upon thy servant: save me for thy mercies'

 sake.

 

­PSA 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.

 

­PSA 31:18  Let the lying lips be put to silence; which speak grievous things

 proudly and contemptuously against the righteous.

 

­PSA 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!

 

­PSA 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.

 

­PSA 31:21  Blessed be the LORD: for he hath shewed me his marvellous kindness

 in a strong city.

 

­PSA 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.

 

­PSA 31:23  O love the LORD, all ye his saints: for the LORD preserveth the

 faithful, and plentifully rewardeth the proud doer.

 

­PSA 31:24  Be of good courage, and he shall strengthen your heart, all ye that

 hope in the LORD.