Psalms 31:1-11

¹To the Overseer. — A Psalm of David. In Thee, O Jehovah, I have trusted, Let me not be ashamed to the age, In Thy righteousness deliver me.

²Incline unto me Thine ear hastily, deliver me, Be to me for a strong rock, For a house of bulwarks to save me.

³For my rock and my bulwark art Thou, For Thy name's sake lead me and tend me.

⁴Bring me out from the net that they hid for me, For Thou art my strength.

⁵Into Thy hand I commit my spirit, Thou hast redeemed me, Jehovah God of truth.

⁶I have hated the observers of lying vanities, And I toward Jehovah have been confident.

⁷I rejoice, and am glad in Thy kindness, In that Thou hast seen mine affliction, Thou hast known in adversities my soul.

⁸And Thou hast not shut me up, Into the hand of an enemy, Thou hast caused my feet to stand in a broad place.

⁹Favour me, O Jehovah, for distress is to me, Mine eye, my soul, and my body Have become old by provocation.

¹⁰For my life hath been consumed in sorrow And my years in sighing. Feeble because of mine iniquity hath been my strength, And my bones have become old.

¹¹Among all mine adversaries I have been a reproach, And to my neighbours exceedingly, And a fear to mine acquaintances, Those seeing me without — fled from me.