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title: Psalm 31
slug: kjv/psalm-31
createdAt: 2024-08-21T02:36:32.459Z
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**1 **\{To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David.} In thee, O LORD, do I put my trust; let me never be ashamed: deliver me in thy righteousness.

**2 **Bow down thine ear to me; deliver me speedily: be thou my strong rock, for an house of defence to save me.

**3 **For thou *art* my rock and my fortress; therefore for thy name's sake lead me, and guide me.

**4 **Pull me out of the net that they have laid privily for me: for thou *art* my strength.

**5 **Into thine hand I commit my spirit: thou hast redeemed me, O LORD God of truth.

**6 **I have hated them that regard lying vanities: but I trust in the LORD.

**7 **I will be glad and rejoice in thy mercy: for thou hast considered my trouble; thou hast known my soul in adversities;

**8 **And hast not shut me up into the hand of the enemy: thou hast set my feet in a large room.

**9 **Have mercy upon me, O LORD, for I am in trouble: mine eye is consumed with grief, *yea*, my soul and my belly.

**10 **For my life is spent with grief, and my years with sighing: my strength faileth because of mine iniquity, and my bones are consumed.

**11 **I was a reproach among all mine enemies, but especially among my neighbours, and a fear to mine acquaintance: they that did see me without fled from me.

**12 **I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind: I am like a broken vessel.

**13 **For I have heard the slander of many: fear *was* on every side: while they took counsel together against me, they devised to take away my life.

**14 **But I trusted in thee, O LORD: I said, Thou *art* my God.

**15 **My times *are* in thy hand: deliver me from the hand of mine enemies, and from them that persecute me.

**16 **Make thy face to shine upon thy servant: save me for thy mercies' sake.

**17 **Let me not be ashamed, O LORD; for I have called upon thee: let the wicked be ashamed, *and* let them be silent in the grave.

**18 **Let the lying lips be put to silence; which speak grievous things proudly and contemptuously against the righteous.

**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!

**20 **Thou shalt hide them in the secret of thy presence from the pride of man: thou shalt keep them secretly in a pavilion from the strife of tongues.

**21 **Blessed *be* the LORD: for he hath shewed me his marvellous kindness in a strong city.

**22 **For 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.

**23 **O love the LORD, all ye his saints: *for* the LORD preserveth the faithful, and plentifully rewardeth the proud doer.

**24 **Be of good courage, and he shall strengthen your heart, all ye that hope in the LORD.