Psalms 31:11-23

¹¹(31:12) Because of all my assailants am I become a reproach, and unto my neighbors greatly so, and a terror to my acquaintance, those that see me abroad flee away from me.

¹²(31:13) I am forgotten as a dead man out of the heart: I am become like a perishable vessel.

¹³(31:14) For I have heard the slandering of many; terror was on every side, while they took counsel together against me: to take away my life did they purpose.

¹⁴(31:15) But I trusted well in thee, O Lord: I said, Thou art my God.

¹⁵(31:16) In thy hand are my destinies: deliver me from the hand of my enemies, and from my persecutors.

¹⁶(31:17) Let thy face shine upon thy servant: save me through thy kindness.

¹⁷(31:18) O Lord, let me not be put to shame; for I have called on thee: let the wicked be put to shame, let them be silent, passing to the nether world.

¹⁸(31:19) Let the lying lips be made dumb, which speak hard things against the righteous, with pride and contempt.

¹⁹(31:20) Oh how great is thy goodness, which thou hast treasured up for those that fear thee; which thou hast wrought for those that trust in thee before the sons of men!

²⁰(31:21) Thou wilt conceal them in the secret of thy presence from the conspiracy of men: thou wilt keep them secretly in a pavilion from the strife of tongues.

²¹(31:22) Blessed be the Lord: for he hath shown me his kindness wonderfully in a beleaguered city.

²²(31:23) And yet had I said in my despondency, I am cut off from before thy eyes: nevertheless thou didst hear the voice of my supplications when I cried loudly unto thee.

²³(31:24) Oh love the Lord, all ye his pious ones: the Lord preserveth the faithful, and recompenses the presumption of him that acteth proudly.