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Psalm 31 :: English Standard Version (ESV)

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Into Your Hand I Commit My Spirit

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 31:1 - To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David.
In you, O LORD, do I take refuge;
let me never be put to shame;
in your righteousness deliver me!

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 31:2 - Incline your ear to me;
rescue me speedily!
Be a rock of refuge for me,
a strong fortress to save me!

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 31:3 - For you are my rock and my fortress;
and for your name’s sake you lead me and guide me;

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 31:4 - you take me out of the net they have hidden for me,
for you are my refuge.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 31:5 - Into your hand I commit my spirit;
you have redeemed me, O LORD, faithful God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 31:6 - I hate[fn] those who pay regard to worthless idols,
but I trust in the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 31:7 - I will rejoice and be glad in your steadfast love,
because you have seen my affliction;
you have known the distress of my soul,

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 31:8 - and you have not delivered me into the hand of the enemy;
you have set my feet in a broad place.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 31:9 - Be gracious to me, O LORD, for I am in distress;
my eye is wasted from grief;
my soul and my body also.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 31:10 - For my life is spent with sorrow,
and my years with sighing;
my strength fails because of my iniquity,
and my bones waste away.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 31:11 - Because 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.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 31:12 - I have been forgotten like one who is dead;
I have become like a broken vessel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 31:13 - For I hear the whispering of many—
terror on every side!—
as they scheme together against me,
as they plot to take my life.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 31:14 - But I trust in you, O LORD;
I say, “You are my God.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 31:15 - My times are in your hand;
rescue me from the hand of my enemies and from my persecutors!

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 31:16 - Make your face shine on your servant;
save me in your steadfast love!

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 31:17 - O 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.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 31:18 - Let the lying lips be mute,
which speak insolently against the righteous
in pride and contempt.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 31:19 - Oh, how abundant is your goodness,
which you have stored up for those who fear you
and worked for those who take refuge in you,
in the sight of the children of mankind!

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 31:20 - In the cover of your presence you hide them
from the plots of men;
you store them in your shelter
from the strife of tongues.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 31:21 - Blessed be the LORD,
for he has wondrously shown his steadfast love to me
when I was in a besieged city.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 31:22 - I had said in my alarm,[fn]
“I am cut off from your sight.”
But you heard the voice of my pleas for mercy
when I cried to you for help.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 31:23 - Love the LORD, all you his saints!
The LORD preserves the faithful
but abundantly repays the one who acts in pride.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 31:24 - Be strong, and let your heart take courage,
all you who wait for the LORD!
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ESV Footnotes
Masoretic Text; one Hebrew manuscript, Septuagint, Syriac, Jerome You hate
Or in my haste
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Psalm Chapter 31 — Additional Translations:

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