PSALM 31

 (KJV)

Pull me out of the net that they have laid privily for me:
for thou art my strength.
Into thine hand I commit my spirit:
thou hast redeemed me, O LORD God of truth.

I have hated them that regard lying vanities:
but I trust in the LORD.
I will be glad and rejoice in thy mercy:
for thou hast considered my trouble;
thou hast known my soul in adversities;
And hast not shut me up into the hand of the enemy:
thou hast set my feet in a large room.

Have mercy upon me, O LORD, for I am in trouble:
mine eye is consumed with grief,
yea, my soul and my belly.
For my life is spent with grief, and my years with sighing:
my strength faileth because of mine iniquity,
and my bones are consumed.

I was a reproach among all mine enemies,
but especially among my neighbours,
and a fear to mine acquaintance:
they that did see me without fled from me.
I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind:
I am like a broken vessel.

For I have heard the slander of many:
fear was on every side:
while they took counsel together against me,
they devised to take away my life.

But I trusted in thee, O LORD:
I said, Thou art my God.
My times are in thy hand:
deliver me from the hand of mine enemies,
and from them that persecute me.
Make thy face to shine upon thy servant:
save me for thy mercies' sake.

Let me not be ashamed, O LORD;
for I have called upon thee:
let the wicked be ashamed,
and let them be silent in the grave.
Let the lying lips be put to silence;
which speak grievous things proudly
and contemptuously against the righteous.

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!

Thou shalt hide them in the secret
of thy presence from the pride of man:
thou shalt keep them secretly
in a pavilion from the strife of tongues.

Blessed be the LORD:
for he hath shewed me his marvellous kindness in a strong city.

For 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.

O love the LORD, all ye his saints:
for the LORD preserveth the faithful,
and plentifully rewardeth the proud doer.
Be of good courage, and he shall strengthen your heart,
all ye that hope in the LORD.