Psalms 31:5-20

⁵Into thy hand I commit my spirit: thou hast redeemed me, Jehovah, thou God of truth.

⁶I have hated them that observe lying vanities; and as for me, I have confided in Jehovah.

⁷I will be glad and rejoice in thy loving-kindness, for thou hast seen mine affliction; thou hast known the troubles of my soul,

⁸And hast not shut me up into the hand of the enemy: thou hast set my feet in a large place.

⁹Be gracious unto me, Jehovah, for I am in trouble: mine eye wasteth away with vexation, my soul and my belly.

¹⁰For my life is spent with sorrow, and my years with sighing; my strength faileth through mine iniquity, and my bones are wasted.

¹¹More than to all mine oppressors, I am become exceedingly a reproach, even to my neighbours, and a fear to mine acquaintance: they that see me without flee from me.

¹²I am forgotten in their heart as a dead man; I am become like a broken vessel.

¹³For I have heard the slander of many — terror on every side — when they take counsel together against me: they plot to take away my life.

¹⁴But I confided in thee, Jehovah; I said, thou art my God.

¹⁵My times are in thy hand: deliver me from the hand of mine enemies, and from my persecutors.

¹⁶Make thy face to shine upon thy servant; save me in thy loving-kindness.

¹⁷Jehovah, let me not be ashamed; for I have called upon thee: let the wicked be ashamed, let them be silent in Sheol.

¹⁸Let the lying lips become dumb, which speak insolently against the righteous in pride and contempt.

¹⁹Oh how great is thy goodness, which thou hast laid up for them that fear thee, which thou hast wrought for them that trust in thee, before the sons of men!

²⁰Thou keepest them concealed in the secret of thy presence from the conspiracies of man; thou hidest them in a pavilion from the strife of tongues.