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Psalm 31 :: Legacy Standard Bible (LSB)

Into Your Hand I Commit My Spirit

Psa 31:1

For the choir director. A Psalm of David.

In You, O Yahweh, I have taken refuge;

Let me never be ashamed;

In Your righteousness protect me.

Psa 31:2

Incline Your ear to me, deliver me quickly;

Be to me a rock of [fn]strength,

A fortress to save me.

Psa 31:3

For You are my [fn]high rock and my fortress;

For Your name’s sake You will lead me and guide me.

Psa 31:4

You will bring me out of the net which they have secretly laid for me,

For You are my strength.

Psa 31:5

Into Your hand I commit my spirit;

You have ransomed me, O Yahweh, God of truth.

Psa 31:6

I hate those who regard worthless idols,

But I trust in Yahweh.

Psa 31:7

I will rejoice and be glad in Your lovingkindness,

Because You have seen my affliction;

You have known the troubles of my soul,

Psa 31:8

And You have not given me over into the hand of the enemy;

You have set my feet in a large place.

Psa 31:9

Be gracious to me, O Yahweh, for I am in distress;

My eye is wasted away from grief, my soul and [fn]my body also.

Psa 31:10

For my life is worn down with sorrow

And my years with sighing;

My strength fails because of my iniquity,

And my bones waste away.

Psa 31:11

Among 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.

Psa 31:12

I am forgotten like a dead man—out of [fn]mind

I am like a broken vessel.

Psa 31:13

For I have heard [fn]the bad report of many,

Terror is on every side;

While they took counsel together against me,

They schemed to take my life.

Psa 31:14

But as for me, I trust in You, O Yahweh,

I say, “You are my God.”

Psa 31:15

My times are in Your hand;

Deliver me from the hand of my enemies and from those who pursue me.

Psa 31:16

Make Your face to shine upon Your slave;

Save me in Your lovingkindness.

Psa 31:17

O Yahweh, let me not be put to shame, for I call upon You;

Let the wicked be put to shame, let them be silent in Sheol.

Psa 31:18

Let the lying lips be mute,

Which speak arrogantly against the righteous

With lofty pride and contempt.

Psa 31:19

How great is Your goodness,

Which You have stored up for those who fear You,

Which You have worked for those who take refuge in You,

Before the sons of men!

Psa 31:20

You hide them in the secret place of Your presence from the conspiracies of man;

You keep them secretly in a [fn]shelter from the strife of tongues.

Psa 31:21

Blessed be Yahweh,

For He has made marvelous His lovingkindness to me in a besieged city.

Psa 31:22

As for me, I said in my alarm,

“I am cut off from before Your eyes”;

Nevertheless, You heard the voice of my supplications

When I cried to You for help.

Psa 31:23

Oh, love Yahweh, all you His holy ones!

Yahweh guards the faithful

But repays fully the one who acts in lofty pride.

Psa 31:24

Be strong and let your heart take courage,

All you who wait for Yahweh.

LSB Footnotes
Or refuge
Or rock, cf. Ps 18:2; 71:3
Lit womb, stomach
Lit heart
Lit whispering
Or pavilion
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