Psalms 31:1-5

¹(32) A Psalm of instruction by David. Blessed are they whose transgressions are forgiven, and who sins are covered.

²Blessed is the man to whom the Lord will not impute sin, and whose mouth there is no guile.

³Because I kept silence, my bones waxed old, from my crying all the day.

⁴For day and night your hand was heavy upon me: I became thoroughly miserable while a thorn was fastened in me. Pause.

⁵I acknowledged my sin, and hid not my iniquity: I said, I will confess my iniquity to the Lord against myself; and you forgave the ungodliness of my heart. Pause.