31:1  In You, O LORD, I have taken refuge; Let me never fall into shame; In Your righteousness deliver me.

31:2  Incline Your ear to me, rescue me quickly; Please become to me a rock of strength, A stronghold to save me.

31:3  For I regard You as my rock and my fortress; For Your name's sake You will lead me and guide me.

31:4  You will pull me out of the net which they have secretly laid for me, For You provide me strength.

31:5  Into Your hand I commit my spirit; You have ransomed me, O LORD, God of truth.

31:6  I hate those who regard vain idols, But I trust in the LORD.

31:7  I will rejoice and have gladness in Your lovingkindness, Because You have seen my affliction; You have known the troubles of my soul,

31:8  Show graciousness to me, O LORD, for I have fallen in distress; My eye wastes away from grief, my soul and my body also.

31:9  Show graciousness to me, O LORD, for I have fallen in distress; My eye wastes away from grief, my soul and my body also.

31:10  For my life I spend with sorrow and my years with sighing; My strength has failed because of my iniquity, and my body has wasted away.

31:11  Because of 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.

31:12  I have become forgotten as a dead man, out of mind; I resemble a broken vessel.

31:13  For I have heard the slander of many, Terror resides on every side; While they took counsel together against me, They schemed to take away my life.

31:14  But as for me, I trust in You, O LORD,I say, "I acknowledge you as my God."

31:15  My times reside in Your hand; Deliver me from the hand of my enemies and from those who persecute me.

31:16  Make Your face to shine upon Your servant; Save me in Your lovingkindness.

31:17  Let me not suffer shame, O LORD, for I call upon You; Let the wicked suffer shame, let them remain silent in Sheol.

31:18   Let the lying lips stay mute, which speak arrogantly against the righteous with pride and contempt.

31:19  How great appears Your goodness, Which You have stored up for those who fear You, Which You have wrought for those who take refuge in You, Before the sons of men!

31:20  You hide them in the secret place of Your presence from the conspiracies of man; You keep them secretly in a shelter from the strife of tongues.

31:21  We bless the name of the LORD, For He has made marvelous His lovingkindness to me in a besieged city.

31:22  As for me, I said in my alarm, "I fell cut off from before Your eyes"; Nevertheless You heard the voice of my supplications when I cried to You.

31:23  O love the LORD, all you His godly ones! The LORD preserves the faithful and fully recompenses the proud doer.

31:24   Remain strong and let your heart take courage, All you who hope in the LORD.