Psa31

Psalms – Chapter 31

¹For the leader. A psalm of David.

I

²In you, LORD, I take refuge;

let me never be put to shame.

In your righteousness deliver me;

³incline your ear to me;

make haste to rescue me!

Be my rock of refuge,

a stronghold to save me.

⁴For you are my rock and my fortress;

for your name’s sake lead me and guide me.

⁵Free me from the net they have set for me,

for you are my refuge.

⁶Into your hands I commend my spirit;

you will redeem me, LORD, God of truth.

⁷You hate those who serve worthless idols,

but I trust in the LORD.

⁸I will rejoice and be glad in your mercy,

once you have seen my misery,

[and] gotten to know the distress of my soul.

⁹You will not abandon me into enemy hands,

but will set my feet in a free and open space.

II

¹⁰Be gracious to me, LORD, for I am in distress;

affliction is wearing down my eyes,

my throat and my insides.

¹¹My life is worn out by sorrow,

and my years by sighing.

My strength fails in my affliction;

my bones are wearing down.

¹²To all my foes I am a thing of scorn,

and especially to my neighbors

a horror to my friends.

When they see me in public,

they quickly shy away.

¹³I am forgotten, out of mind like the dead;

I am like a worn-out tool.

¹⁴I hear the whispers of the crowd;

terrors are all around me.

They conspire together against me;

they plot to take my life.

¹⁵But I trust in you, LORD;

I say, “You are my God.”

¹⁶My destiny is in your hands;

rescue me from my enemies,

from the hands of my pursuers.

¹⁷Let your face shine on your servant;

save me in your mercy.

¹⁸Do not let me be put to shame,

for I have called to you, LORD.

Put the wicked to shame;

reduce them to silence in Sheol.

¹⁹Strike dumb their lying lips,

which speak arrogantly against the righteous

in contempt and scorn.

III

²⁰How great is your goodness, Lord,

stored up for those who fear you.

You display it for those who trust you,

in the sight of the children of Adam.

²¹You hide them in the shelter of your presence,

safe from scheming enemies.

You conceal them in your tent,

away from the strife of tongues.

²²Blessed be the LORD,

marvelously he showed to me

his mercy in a fortified city.

²³Though I had said in my alarm,

“I am cut off from your eyes.”

Yet you heard my voice, my cry for mercy,

when I pleaded with you for help.

²⁴Love the LORD, all you who are faithful to him.

The LORD protects the loyal,

but repays the arrogant in full.

²⁵Be strong and take heart,

all who hope in the LORD.

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THE REVISED NEW AMERICAN BIBLE
United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB)