Psalms 31:8-22

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;

¹⁸guileful lips be made dumb. That speak wickedness against a just or rightwise man; in pride, and in mis-using or in abusing.

¹⁹Lord, the multitude of thy sweet-ness is full great; which thou hast hid to men dreading thee. Thou hast made a perfect thing to them that hope in thee; in the sight of the sons of men.

²⁰Thou shalt hide them in the private of thy face; from the troubling of men. Thou shalt defend them in thy tabernacle; from the against-saying of tongues.

²¹Blessed be the Lord; for he hath made wonderful his mercy to me in a strengthened city.

²²Forsooth I said in the out-passing of my soul; I am cast out from the face of thine eyes. Therefore thou heardest the voice of my prayer; while I cried to thee.