Psalm 31
Psalm 31:1[1] Yahveh, I seek refuge in you; let me not be disgraced permanently. Save me by your righteousness.
Psalm 31:2 Listen closely to me; rescue me quickly. Be a boulder of refuge for me, a mountain fortress to save me
Psalm 31:3 because you are my boulder and my fortress; you lead and guide me for your name’s sake.
Psalm 31:4 You will free me from the net that is secretly set for me, because you are my refuge.
Psalm 31:5 Into your hand I entrust my breath; you have redeemed me, Yahveh, God of truth.
Psalm 31:6 I hate those who worship temporary and trivial things, but I trust in Yahveh.
Psalm 31:7 I will celebrate and be happy in your covenant faithfulness because you have seen my affliction. You know the troubles of my throat
Psalm 31:8 and have not handed me over to the enemy. You have set my feet in a spacious place.
Psalm 31:9 Be gracious to me, Yahveh, because I am in distress; my eyes, my throat, and my belly are worn out from frustration.
Psalm 31:10 Indeed, my life finishes with grief and my years with groaning; my strength has failed because of my violation, and my bones waste away.
Psalm 31:11 I am ridiculed by all my adversaries and even by my neighbors. My acquaintances dread me; those who see me in the street run from me.
Psalm 31:12 I am forgotten: gone from memory like a dead person– like broken pottery.
Psalm 31:13 I have heard the gossip of many; terror is on every side. When they conspired against me, they plotted to take my throat.
Psalm 31:14 But I trust in you, Yahveh; I say, “You are my God.”
Psalm 31:15 The course of my life is in your power; rescue me from the power of my enemies and from those who chase after me.
Psalm 31:16 Make your face shine on your servant; save me by your covenant faithfulness.
Psalm 31:17 Yahveh, do not let me be disgraced when I call on you. Let the wicked be disgraced; let them be quiet in Sheol.
Psalm 31:18 Let lying lips that arrogantly speak against the righteous in proud contempt be silenced.
Psalm 31:19 How great is your goodness that you have stored up for those who fear you and accomplished in the sight of children of Adam for those who take refuge in you.
Psalm 31:20 You hide them in the protection of your presence; you conceal them in a shelter from human schemes, from disputing tongues.
Psalm 31:21 Blessed be Yahveh, because he has wondrously shown his covenant faithfulness to me in a city under siege.
Psalm 31:22 In my alarm, I said, “I am cut off from your sight.” But you heard the sound of my pleading when I cried to you for help.
Psalm 31:23 Love Yahveh, all his faithful ones. Yahveh protects the loyal, but fully repays the arrogant.
Psalm 31:24 Be strong, and let your heart be courageous, all you who put your hope in Yahveh.
[1]superscription: A psalm of David.
links:
a spacious place
boulder of refuge
bring us through
Calvin on Psalm 31-5
intimidation
like broken pottery
lost souls and other insights from the First Book of Psalms
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Psalm 31-5
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