1 Unto the end, a psalm for David, in an ecstasy. (31:2) In thee, O Lord, have I hoped, let me never be confounded: deliver me in thy justice.

2 (31:3) Bow down thy ear to me: make haste to deliver me. Be thou unto me a God, a protector, and a house of refuge, to save me.

3 (31:4) For thou art my strength and my refuge; and for thy name's sake thou wilt lead me, and nourish me.

4 (31:5) Thou wilt bring me out of this snare, which they have hidden for me: for thou art my protector.

5 (31:6) Into thy hands I commend my spirit: thou hast redeemed me, O Lord, the God of truth.

6 (31:7) Thou hast hated them that regard vanities, to no purpose. But I have hoped in the Lord:

7 (31:8) I will be glad and rejoice in thy mercy. For thou hast regarded my humility, thou hast saved my soul out of distresses.

8 (31:9) And thou hast not shut me up in the hands of the enemy: thou hast set my feet in a spacious place.

9 (31:10) Have mercy on me, O Lord, for I am afflicted: my eye is troubled with wrath, my soul, and my belly:

10 (31:11) For my life is wasted with grief: and my years in sighs. My strength is weakened through poverty and my bones are disturbed.

11 (31:12) I am become a reproach among all my enemies, and very much to my neighbours; and a fear to my acquaintance. They that saw me without fled from me.

12 (31:13) I am forgotten as one dead from the heart. I am become as a vessel that is destroyed.

13 (31:14) For I have heard the blame of many that dwell round about. While they assembled together against me, they consulted to take away my life.

14 (31:15) But I have put my trust in thee, O Lord: I said: Thou art my God.

15 (31:16) My lots are in thy hands. Deliver me out of the hands of my enemies; and from them that persecute me.

16 (31:17) Make thy face to shine upon thy servant; save me in thy mercy.

17 (31:18) Let me not be confounded, O Lord, for I have called upon thee. Let the wicked be ashamed, and be brought down to hell.

18 (31:19) Let deceitful lips be made dumb. Which speak iniquity against the just, with pride and abuse.

19 (31:20) O how great is the multitude of thy sweetness, O Lord, which thou hast hidden for them that fear thee! Which thou hast wrougth for them that hope in thee, in the sight of the sons of men.

20 (31:21) Thou shalt hide them in the secret of thy face, from the disturbance of men. Thou shalt protect them in thy tabernacle form the contradiction of tongues.

21 (31:22) Blessed be the Lord, for he hath shewn his wonderful mercy to me in a fortified city.

22 (31:23) But I said in the excess of my mind: I am cast away from before thy eyes. Therefore thou hast heard the voice of my prayer, when I cried to thee.

23 (31:24) O love the Lord, all ye his saints: for the Lord will require truth, and will repay them abundantly that act proudly.

24 (31:25) Do ye manfully, and let your heart be strengthened, all ye that hope in the Lord.