Salmo 31

¹ In thee, Jehovah, do I trust; let me never be ashamed: deliver me in thy righteousness. ² Incline thine ear to me, deliver me speedily; be a strong rock to me, a house of defence to save me. ³ For thou art my rock and my fortress; and, for thy name's sake, thou wilt lead me and guide me. ⁴ Draw me out of the net that they have hidden for me; for thou art my strength. ⁵ Into thy hand I commit my spirit: thou hast redeemed me, Jehovah, thou *God of truth. ⁶ I have hated them that observe lying vanities; and as for me, I have confided in Jehovah. ⁷ I will be glad and rejoice in thy loving-kindness, for thou hast seen mine affliction; thou hast known the troubles of my soul, ⁸ And hast not shut me up into the hand of the enemy: thou hast set my feet in a large place.

⁹ Be gracious unto me, Jehovah, for I am in trouble: mine eye wasteth away with vexation, my soul and my belly. ¹⁰ For my life is spent with sorrow, and my years with sighing; my strength faileth through mine iniquity, and my bones are wasted. ¹¹ More 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. ¹² I am forgotten in their heart as a dead man; I am become like a broken vessel. ¹³ For 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. ¹⁴ But I confided in thee, Jehovah; I said, thou art my God. ¹⁵ My times are in thy hand: deliver me from the hand of mine enemies, and from my persecutors. ¹⁶ Make thy face to shine upon thy servant; save me in thy loving-kindness. ¹⁷ Jehovah, let me not be ashamed; for I have called upon thee: let the wicked be ashamed, let them be silent in Sheol. ¹⁸ Let the lying lips become dumb, which speak insolently against the righteous in pride and contempt.

¹⁹  Oh 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! ²⁰ Thou 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. ²¹ Blessed be Jehovah; for he hath shewn me wondrously his loving-kindness in a strong city. ²² As for me, I said in my haste, I am cut off from before thine eyes; nevertheless thou heardest the voice of my supplications when I cried unto thee. ²³ Love Jehovah, all ye his saints. Jehovah preserveth the faithful, and plentifully requiteth the proud doer. ²⁴ Be strong, and let your heart take courage, all ye that hope in Jehovah.