Psalms 31

¹ In You, O Yahweh, have I taken refuge; Do not let me be ashamed for the eon; In Your righteousness deliver me. ² Stretch out Your ear to me; Rescue me quickly, O Yahweh! Become mine for a Rock, a Stronghold, For a House of Fastness to save me. ³ For You are my Crag and my Fastness, And on account of Your Name, O Yahweh, You shall guide me, And You shall conduct me. ⁴ You shall bring me forth from the net That they have buried for me; For You are my Stronghold. ⁵ Into Your hand am I committing my spirit; You have ransomed me, O Yahweh, El of faithfulness. ⁶ I hate those keeping hypocritical vanities, Yet I, I trust in Yahweh. ⁷ I will exult and rejoice in Your benignity, You Who have seen my humiliation; You know all about the distresses of my soul, ⁸ And You have not locked me up into the hand of the enemy; You have made my feet stand in a wide place. ⁹ Be gracious to me, O Yahweh, for distress has been mine; My eye was exhausted by vexation, My soul and my inner being too. ¹⁰ For my life was consumed with affliction, And my years with sighing; My vigor stumbled with my humiliation, And my bones, they were exhausted. ¹¹ Because of all my foes I became a reproach, Even to my neighbors, exceedingly so, And an alarm to my close acquaintances; Those seeing me in the street would bolt away from me. ¹² I was forgotten, like a dead man, out of heart; I became like a lost vessel. ¹³ For I heard the muttering of many; Shrinking fear was round about; In their deliberation together against me, They schemed to take away my soul. ¹⁴ Yet I, I trusted in You, O Yahweh; I said, My Elohim are You; ¹⁵ In Your hand are my seasons; Rescue me from the hand of my enemies And from those pursuing me. ¹⁶ Do let Your face light up over Your servant; Save me in Your benignity. ¹⁷ O Yahweh, do not let me be ashamed, For I have called out to You. Let the wicked be ashamed; Let them be still in the unseen; ¹⁸ Let false lips be muted, Those speaking with impertinence against the righteous, In pride and contempt. ¹⁹ How great is Your goodness Which You have stored up for those fearing You, And have effected for those seeking refuge in You In front of the sons of humanity. ²⁰ You shall conceal them in the concealment of Your presence From the coalitions of man; You shall seclude them in a booth From the dispute of tongues. ²¹ Blessed be Yahweh, For He made marvelous His benignity to me In a besieged city. ²² Yet I, I had said in my consternation, I am severed from in front of Your eyes. Nevertheless, You heard the voice of my supplications In my imploring to You. ²³ Love Yahweh, all His benign ones; The faithful, Yahweh is preserving, Yet He is repaying with a surplus The one dealing with pride. ²⁴ Be steadfast, And let your heart be resolute, All you who are waiting for Yahweh.