Psalms 31:3-11

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.

⁶Therefore shall every holy one pray to you in a fit time: only in the deluge of many waters they shall not come near to him.

⁷You are my refuge from the affliction that encompasses me; my joy, to deliver me from them that have compassed me. Pause.

⁸I will instruct you and guide you in this way wherein you shall go: I will fix my eyes upon you.

⁹Be you° not as horse and mule, which have no understanding; but you must constrain their jaws with bit and curb, lest they should come near to you.

¹⁰Many are the scourges of the sinner: but him that hopes in the Lord mercy shall compass about.

¹¹Be glad in the Lord, and exult, you° righteous: and glory, all you° that are upright in heart.