# Psalms 31 [[Psalms 30|←]] • [[Psalms 32|→]] --- To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. ### 1 In thee, O Lord, do I put my trust; let me never be ashamed: deliver me in thy righteousness. ### 2 Bow down thine ear to me; deliver me speedily: be thou my strong rock, for an house of defence to save me. ### 3 For thou my rock and my fortress; therefore for thy name's sake lead me, and guide me. ### 4 Pull me out of the net that they have laid privily for me: for thou my strength. ### 5 Into thine hand I commit my spirit: thou hast redeemed me, O Lord God of truth. ### 6 I have hated them that regard lying vanities: but I trust in the Lord. ### 7 I will be glad and rejoice in thy mercy: for thou hast considered my trouble; thou hast known my soul in adversities; ### 8 And hast not shut me up into the hand of the enemy: thou hast set my feet in a large room. ### 9 Have mercy upon me, O Lord, for I am in trouble: mine eye is consumed with grief, my soul and my belly. ### 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. ### 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. ### 12 I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind: I am like a broken vessel. ### 13 For I have heard the slander of many: fear on every side: while they took counsel together against me, they devised to take away my life. ### 14 But I trusted in thee, O Lord: I said, Thou my God. ### 15 My times in thy hand: deliver me from the hand of mine enemies, and from them that persecute me. ### 16 Make thy face to shine upon thy servant: save me for thy mercies' sake. ### 17 Let me not be ashamed, O Lord; for I have called upon thee: let the wicked be ashamed, let them be silent in the grave. ### 18 Let the lying lips be put to silence; which speak grievous things proudly and contemptuously against the righteous. ### 19 how great thy goodness, which thou hast laid up for them that fear thee; thou hast wrought for them that trust in thee before the sons of men! ### 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. ### 21 Blessed the Lord: for he hath shewed me his marvellous kindness in a strong city. ### 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. ### 23 O love the Lord, all ye his saints: the Lord preserveth the faithful, and plentifully rewardeth the proud doer. ### 24 Be of good courage, and he shall strengthen your heart, all ye that hope in the Lord.