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psalms 31
1 - In you, The LORD, I take refuge.Let me never be disappointed.Deliver me in your righteousness.
2 - Bow down your ear to me.Deliver me speedily.Be to me a strong rock,a house of defense to save me.
3 - For you are my rock and my fortress,therefore for your name's sake lead me and guide me.
4 - Pluck me out of the net that they have laid secretly for me,for you are my stronghold.
5 - Into your hand I commend my spirit.You redeem me, The LORD, God of truth.
6 - I hate those who regard lying vanities,but I trust in The LORD.
7 - I will be glad and rejoice in your loving kindness,for you have seen my affliction.You have known my soul in adversities.
8 - You have not shut me up into the hand of the enemy.You have set my feet in a large place.
9 - Have mercy on me, The LORD, for I am in distress.My eye, my soul, and my body waste away with grief.
10 - For my life is spent with sorrow,my years with sighing.My strength fails because of my iniquity.My bones are wasted away.
11 - Because of all my adversaries I have become utterly contemptible to my neighbors,A fear to my acquaintances.Those who saw me on the street fled from me.
12 - I am forgotten from their hearts like a dead man.I am like broken pottery.
13 - For I have heard the slander of many, terror on every side,while they conspire together against me,they plot to take away my life.
14 - But I trust in you, The LORD.I said, "You are my God."
15 - My times are in your hand.Deliver me from the hand of my enemies, and from those who persecute me.
16 - Make your face to shine on your servant.Save me in your loving kindness.
17 - Let me not be disappointed, The LORD, for I have called on you.Let the wicked be disappointed.Let them be silent in Sheol.
18 - Let the lying lips be mute,which speak against the righteous insolently, with pride and contempt.
19 - Oh how great is your goodness,which you have laid up for those who fear you,which you have worked for those who take refuge in you,before the sons of men!
20 - In the shelter of your presence you will hide them from the plotting of man.You will keep them secretly in a dwelling away from the strife of tongues.
21 - Praise be to The LORD,for he has shown me his marvelous loving kindness in a strong city.
22 - As for me, I said in my haste, "I am cut off from before your eyes."Nevertheless you heard the voice of my petitions when I cried to you.
23 - Oh love The LORD, all you his saints!The LORD preserves the faithful,and fully recompenses him who behaves arrogantly.
24 - Be strong, and let your heart take courage,all you who hope in The LORD.
