Psalms Chapter 31

• Psalms 31:1
  Psalms.
• Psalms 31:2
  For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David. In you, LORD, I take refuge. Let me never be disappointed. Deliver me in your righteousness.
• Psalms 31:3
  Bow down your ear to me. Deliver me speedily. Be to me a strong rock, a house of defense to save me.
• Psalms 31:4
  For you are my rock and my fortress, therefore for your name’s sake lead me and guide me.
• Psalms 31:5
  Pluck me out of the net that they have laid secretly for me, for you are my stronghold.
• Psalms 31:6
  Into your hand I commend my spirit. You redeem me, LORD, God of truth.
• Psalms 31:7
  I hate those who regard lying vanities, but I trust in the LORD.
• Psalms 31:8
  I will be glad and rejoice in your loving kindness, for you have seen my affliction. You have known my soul in adversities.
• Psalms 31:9
  You have not shut me up into the hand of the enemy. You have set my feet in a large place.
• Psalms 31:10
  Have mercy on me, LORD, for I am in distress. My eye, my soul, and my body waste away with grief.
• Psalms 31:11
  For my life is spent with sorrow, my years with sighing. My strength fails because of my iniquity. My bones are wasted away.
• Psalms 31:12
  Because of all my adversaries I have become utterly contemptible to my neighbors, a horror to my acquaintances. Those who saw me on the street fled fr...
• Psalms 31:13
  I am forgotten from their hearts like a dead man. I am like broken pottery.
• Psalms 31:14
  For I have heard the slander of many, terror on every side, while they conspire together against me, they plot to take away my life.
• Psalms 31:15
  But I trust in you, LORD. I said, “You are my God.”
• Psalms 31:16
  My times are in your hand. Deliver me from the hand of my enemies, and from those who persecute me.
• Psalms 31:17
  Make your face to shine on your servant. Save me in your loving kindness.
• Psalms 31:18
  Let me not be disappointed, LORD, for I have called on you. Let the wicked be disappointed. Let them be silent in Sheol.
• Psalms 31:19
  Let the lying lips be mute, which speak against the righteous insolently, with pride and contempt.
• Psalms 31:20
  Oh how great is your goodness, which you have laid up for those who fear you, which you have worked for those who take refuge in you, before the sons ...
• Psalms 31:21
  In the shelter of your presence you will hide them from the plotting of man. You will keep them secretly in a dwelling away from the strife of tongues...
• Psalms 31:22
  Praise be to the LORD, for he has shown me his marvelous loving kindness in a strong city.
• Psalms 31:23
  As for me, I said in my haste, “I am cut off from before your eyes.” Nevertheless you heard the voice of my petitions when I cried to you.
• Psalms 31:24
  Oh love the LORD, all you his saints! The LORD preserves the faithful, and fully recompenses him who behaves arrogantly.
• Psalms 31:25
  Be strong, and let your heart take courage, all you who hope in the LORD.