Psalms 31:1-18

1In you, O Lord, do I take refuge; let me never be put to shame; in your righteousness deliver me!

2Incline your ear to me; rescue me speedily! Be a rock of refuge for me, a strong fortress to save me!

3For you are my rock and my fortress; and for your name's sake you lead me and guide me;

4you take me out of the net they have hidden for me, for you are my refuge.

5Into your hand I commit my spirit; you have redeemed me, O Lord, faithful God.

6I hate those who pay regard to worthless idols, but I trust in the Lord.

7I will rejoice and be glad in your steadfast love, because you have seen my affliction; you have known the distress of my soul,

8and you have not delivered me into the hand of the enemy; you have set my feet in a broad place.

9Be gracious to me, O Lord, for I am in distress; my eye is wasted from grief; my soul and my body also.

10For my life is spent with sorrow, and my years with sighing; my strength fails because of my iniquity, and my bones waste away.

11Because of all my adversaries I have become a reproach, especially to my neighbors, and an object of dread to my acquaintances; those who see me in the street flee from me.

12I have been forgotten like one who is dead; I have become like a broken vessel.

13For I hear the whispering of many— terror on every side!— as they scheme together against me, as they plot to take my life.

14But I trust in you, O Lord; I say, "You are my God."

15My times are in your hand; rescue me from the hand of my enemies and from my persecutors!

16Make your face shine on your servant; save me in your steadfast love!

17O Lord, let me not be put to shame, for I call upon you; let the wicked be put to shame; let them go silently to Sheol.

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