Keraia
Wisdom and Poetry

Psalm 31

Into Your Hands I Commit My Spirit

1For the choirmaster. A Psalm of David.

In You, O LORD, I have taken refuge;

let me never be put to shame;

save me by Your righteousness.

1For the one directing. A Psalm of David. In You, O YHWH, I have taken refuge; do not let me be ashamed forever; in Your righteousness, deliver me!

2Incline Your ear to me;

come quickly to my rescue.

Be my rock of refuge,

the stronghold of my deliverance.

2Incline Your ear to me, and quickly deliver me. Be for me as a rock of refuge, as a house of strongholds to save me.

3For You are my rock and my fortress;

lead me and guide me for the sake of Your name.

3For You are my rock and my stronghold; and for the sake of Your name, You will lead me and guide me.

4You free me from the net laid out for me,

for You are my refuge.

4You will bring me out from the net that they have hidden for me, because You are my refuge.

5Into Your hands I commit my spirit;

You have redeemed me, O LORD, God of truth.

5Into Your hand I commit my spirit; You have redeemed me, O YHWH, God of truth.

6I hate those who cling to worthless idols,

but in the LORD I trust.

6I have hated those serving worthless idols; and I toward YHWH place my trust.

7I will be glad and rejoice in Your loving devotion,

for You have seen my affliction;

You have known the anguish of my soul.

7I will rejoice and be glad in Your loving devotion—in that You have seen my affliction, and you knew of the distress of my soul.

8You have not delivered me to the enemy;

You have set my feet in the open.

8And You did not shut me up in the hand of the enemy, You set my feet on a broad place.

9Be merciful to me, O LORD,

for I am in distress;

my eyes fail from sorrow,

my soul and body as well.

9Show favor to me, O YHWH, for there is distress for me! My eye, my soul, and my belly have wasted away with grief.

10For my life is consumed with grief

and my years with groaning;

my iniquity has drained my strength,

and my bones are wasting away.

10For my life has been consumed with grief, and my years with groaning; my strength fails in my iniquity, and my bones are wasting away.

11Among all my enemies I am a disgrace,

and among my neighbors even more.

I am dreaded by my friends—

they flee when they see me on the street.

11Among all my enemies I am an object of scorn, even to my neighbors, and a source of dread, exceedingly to those who know me; those seeing me in the street flee from me!

12I am forgotten like a dead man, out of mind.

I am like a broken vessel.

12I have been forgotten like a dead man from the heart; I am perishing like a vessel.

13For I hear the slander of many;

there is terror on every side.

They conspire against me

and plot to take my life.

13For I have heard the slander of many, terror from round about, in their taking counsel together against me; they have plotted to take my life.

14But I trust in You, O LORD;

I say, “You are my God.”

14Yet I have trusted in You, O YHWH; I say, “You are My God.”

15My times are in Your hands;

deliver me from my enemies

and from those who pursue me.

15In Your hand are my times; deliver me from the hand of my enemies, and from those pursuing me.

16Make Your face shine on Your servant;

save me by Your loving devotion.

16Cause Your face to shine upon Your servant; save me in Your loving devotion.

17O LORD, let me not be ashamed,

for I have called on You.

Let the wicked be put to shame;

let them lie silent in Sheol.

17O YHWH, do not let me be ashamed, for I have called to You. Let the wicked be ashamed; let them be silent in Sheol.

18May lying lips be silenced—

lips that speak with arrogance against the righteous,

full of pride and contempt.

18Let the lips of falsehood become dumb, those speaking against the righteous with arrogance, with pride and contempt.

19How great is Your goodness

which You have laid up for those who fear You,

which You have bestowed before the sons of men

on those who take refuge in You!

19How great is Your goodness, which You have laid up for those fearing You, which you have prepared for those taking refuge in You before the sons of man!

20You hide them in the secret place of Your presence

from the schemes of men.

You conceal them in Your shelter

from accusing tongues.

20You shall hide them in the hidden place of Your presence, from the plots of man; you shall store them in a shelter, from the strife of tongues.

21Blessed be the LORD,

for He has shown me His loving devotion

in a city under siege.

21Blessed be YHWH, for He has made marvelous His loving devotion to me, in a city under siege.

22In my alarm I said,

“I am cut off from Your sight!”

But You heard my plea for mercy

when I called to You for help.

22For I said in my haste, “I am cut off from before Your eyes!” Surely You heard the voice of my supplications, in my crying out to You.

23Love the LORD, all His saints.

The LORD preserves the faithful,

but fully repays the arrogant.

23Love YHWH, all you His holy ones! YHWH is watching the faithful and recompensing the worker of pride in excess.

24Be strong and courageous,

all you who hope in the LORD.

24Hold firm, and He shall strengthen your heart, all those waiting for YHWH.