The Psalms, starting at chapter 31
Psalm 31
For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David.
{31:1} In you, LORD, I take refuge.
Let me never be disappointed.
Deliver me in your righteousness.
{31:2} Bow down your ear to me.
Deliver me speedily.
Be to me a strong rock,
a house of defense to save me.
{31:3} For you are my rock and my fortress,
therefore for your name's sake lead me and guide me.
{31:4} Pluck me out of the net that they have laid secretly for me,
for you are my stronghold.
{31:5} Into your hand I commend my spirit.
You redeem me, LORD, God of truth.
{31:6} I hate those who regard lying vanities,
but I trust in the LORD.
{31:7} I will be glad and rejoice in your loving kindness,
for you have seen my affliction.
You have known my soul in adversities.
{31:8} You have not shut me up into the hand of the enemy.
You have set my feet in a large place.
{31:9} Have mercy on me, LORD, for I am in distress.
My eye, my soul, and my body waste away with grief.
{31:10} For my life is spent with sorrow,
my years with sighing.
My strength fails because of my iniquity.
My bones are wasted away.
{31:11} Because of all my adversaries I have become utterly
contemptible to my neighbors,
A fear to my acquaintances.
Those who saw me on the street fled from me.
{31:12} I am forgotten from their hearts like a dead man.
I am like broken pottery.
{31:13} For I have heard the slander of many, terror on every side,
while they conspire together against me,
they plot to take away my life.
{31:14} But I trust in you, LORD.
I said, "You are my God."
{31:15} My times are in your hand.
Deliver me from the hand of my enemies, and from those who persecute
me.
{31:16} Make your face to shine on your servant.
Save me in your loving kindness.
{31:17} Let me not be disappointed, LORD, for I have called on you.
Let the wicked be disappointed.
Let them be silent in [1>]Sheol[<1].
{31:18} Let the lying lips be mute,
which speak against the righteous insolently, with pride and
contempt.
{31:19} Oh how great is your goodness,
which you have laid up for those who fear you,
which you have worked for those who take refuge in you,
before the sons of men!
{31:20} In the shelter of your presence you will hide them from the
plotting of man.
You will keep them secretly in a dwelling away from the strife of
tongues.
{31:21} Praise be to the LORD,
for he has shown me his marvelous loving kindness in a strong city.
{31:22} As for me, I said in my haste, "I am cut off from before your
eyes."
Nevertheless you heard the voice of my petitions when I cried to you.
{31:23} Oh love the LORD, all you his holy ones!
The LORD preserves the faithful,
and fully recompenses him who behaves arrogantly.
{31:24} Be strong, and let your heart take courage,
all you who hope in the LORD.
Psalm 32
By David. A contemplative psalm.
{32:1} Blessed is he whose disobedience is forgiven,
whose sin is covered.
{32:2} Blessed is the man to whom the LORD doesn't impute iniquity,
in whose spirit there is no deceit.
{32:3} When I kept silence, my bones wasted away through my groaning
all day long.
{32:4} For day and night your hand was heavy on me.
My strength was sapped in the heat of summer.
Selah.
{32:5} I acknowledged my sin to you.
I didn't hide my iniquity.
I said, I will confess my transgressions to the LORD,
and you forgave the iniquity of my sin.
Selah.
{32:6} For this, let everyone who is godly pray to you in a time when
you may be found.
Surely when the great waters overflow, they shall not reach to him.
{32:7} You are my hiding place.
You will preserve me from trouble.
You will surround me with songs of deliverance.
Selah.
{32:8} I will instruct you and teach you in the way which you shall go.
I will counsel you with my eye on you.
{32:9} Don't be like the horse, or like the mule, which have no
understanding,
who are controlled by bit and bridle, or else they will not come
near to you.
{32:10} Many sorrows come to the wicked,
but loving kindness shall surround him who trusts in the LORD.
{32:11} Be glad in the LORD, and rejoice, you righteous!
Shout for joy, all you who are upright in heart!
Psalm 33
{33:1} Rejoice in the LORD, you righteous!
Praise is fitting for the upright.
{33:2} Give thanks to the LORD with the lyre.
Sing praises to him with the harp of ten strings.
{33:3} Sing to him a new song.
Play skillfully with a shout of joy!
{33:4} For the word of the LORD is right.
All his work is done in faithfulness.
{33:5} He loves righteousness and justice.
The earth is full of the loving kindness of the LORD.
{33:6} By the LORD's word, the heavens were made;
all their army by the breath of his mouth.
{33:7} He gathers the waters of the sea together as a heap.
He lays up the deeps in storehouses.
{33:8} Let all the earth fear the LORD.
Let all the inhabitants of the world stand in awe of him.
{33:9} For he spoke, and it was done.
He commanded, and it stood firm.
{33:10} The LORD brings the counsel of the nations to nothing.
He makes the thoughts of the peoples to be of no effect.
{33:11} The counsel of the LORD stands fast forever,
the thoughts of his heart to all generations.
{33:12} Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD,
the people whom he has chosen for his own inheritance.
{33:13} The LORD looks from heaven.
He sees all the sons of men.
{33:14} From the place of his habitation he looks out on all the
inhabitants of the earth,
{33:15} he who fashions all of their hearts;
and he considers all of their works.
{33:16} There is no king saved by the multitude of an army.
A mighty man is not delivered by great strength.
{33:17} A horse is a vain thing for safety,
neither does he deliver any by his great power.
{33:18} Behold, the LORD's eye is on those who fear him,
on those who hope in his loving kindness;
{33:19} to deliver their soul from death,
to keep them alive in famine.
{33:20} Our soul has waited for the LORD.
He is our help and our shield.
{33:21} For our heart rejoices in him,
because we have trusted in his holy name.
{33:22} Let your loving kindness be on us, LORD,
since we have hoped in you.
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Footnotes:
[1] {31:17} Sheol is the place of the dead.
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