Psalms 31:4-17

⁴Thou shalt lead me out of the snare, which they hid to me; for thou art my defender.

⁵I betake my spirit into thine hands; Lord God of truth, thou hast again-bought me.

⁶Thou hatest them that keep vanities superfluously. Forsooth I hoped in the Lord;

⁷I shall have fully joy, and shall be glad in thy mercy. For thou beheldest my meekness; thou savedest my life from needs.

⁸And thou enclosedest not me altogether within the hands of the enemy; thou hast set my feet in a large place.

⁹Lord, have thou mercy on me, for I am troubled; mine eye is troubled in ire, my soul and my womb also.

¹⁰For why my life failed in sorrow; and my years in wailings. My virtue is made feeble in poverty; and my bones be troubled.

¹¹Over all mine enemies I am made a shame, and greatly to my neighbours; and dread to my known. They that saw me withoutforth, fled from me;

¹²I am given to forgetting, as a dead man from the heart. I am made as a forlorn vessel;

¹³for I heard despising of many men dwelling in compass. In that thing while they came together against me; they counselled to take my life.

¹⁴But, Lord, I hoped in thee; I said, Thou art my God;

¹⁵my times be in thine hands. Deliver thou me from the hands of mine enemies; and from them that pursue me.

¹⁶Make thou clear thy face on thy servant; Lord, make thou me safe in thy mercy;

¹⁷be I not shamed, for I inwardly called thee. Unpious men be ashamed, and be they led forth into hell;