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Psalms 31
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890
1To David himself, understanding. Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven, and whose sins are covered.
1 In thee, Jehovah, do I trust; let me never be ashamed: deliver me in thy righteousness.
2Blessed is the man to whom the Lord hath not imputed sin, and in whose spirit there is no guile.
2 Incline thine ear to me, deliver me speedily; be a strong rock to me, a house of defence to save me.
3Because I was silent my bones grew old; whilst I cried out all the day long.
3 For thou art my rock and my fortress; and, for thy name's sake, thou wilt lead me and guide me.
4For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me: I am turned in my anguish, whilst the thorn is fastened.
4 Draw me out of the net that they have hidden for me; for thou art my strength.
5I have acknowledged my sin to thee, and my injustice I have not concealed. I said I will confess against my self my injustice to the Lord: and thou hast forgiven the wickedness of my sin.
5 Into thy hand I commit my spirit: thou hast redeemed me, Jehovah, [thou]God of truth.
6For this shall every one that is holy pray to thee in a seasonable time. And yet in a flood of many waters, they shall not come nigh unto him.
6 I have hated them that observe lying vanities; and as for me, I have confided in Jehovah.
7Thou art my refuge from the trouble which hath encompassed me: my joy, deliver me from them that surround me.
7 I will be glad and rejoice in thy loving-kindness, for thou hast seen mine affliction; thou hast known the troubles of my soul,
8I will give thee understanding, and I will instruct thee in this way, in which thou shalt go: I will fix my eyes upon thee.
8 And hast not shut me up into the hand of the enemy: thou hast set my feet in a large place.
9Do not become like the horse and the mule, who have no understanding. With bit and bridle bind fast their jaws, who come not near unto thee.
9 Be gracious unto me, Jehovah, for I am in trouble: mine eye wasteth away with vexation, my soul and my belly.
10Many are the scourges of the sinner, but mercy shall encompass him that hopeth in the Lord.
10 For my life is spent with sorrow, and my years with sighing; my strength faileth through mine iniquity, and my bones are wasted.
11Be glad in the Lord, and rejoice, ye just, and glory, all ye right of heart.
11 More than to all mine oppressors, I am become exceedingly a reproach, even to my neighbours, and a fear to mine acquaintance: they that see me without flee from me.
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12 I am forgotten in [their] heart as a dead man; I am become like a broken vessel.
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13 For I have heard the slander of many — terror on every side — when they take counsel together against me: they plot to take away my life.
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15 My times are in thy hand: deliver me from the hand of mine enemies, and from my persecutors.
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16 Make thy face to shine upon thy servant; save me in thy loving-kindness.
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17 Jehovah, let me not be ashamed; for I have called upon thee: let the wicked be ashamed, let them be silent in Sheol.
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18 Let the lying lips become dumb, which speak insolently against the righteous in pride and contempt.
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19 [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!
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20 Thou keepest them concealed in the secret of thy presence from the conspiracies of man; thou hidest them in a pavilion from the strife of tongues.
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21 Blessed be Jehovah; for he hath shewn me wondrously his loving-kindness in a strong city.
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22 As for me, 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.