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Psalm 31

Hebrew Names Version HNV

1 <<For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David.>> In you, LORD, do I take refuge. Let me never be put to shame: Deliver me in your righteousness.

2 Bow down your ear to me. Deliver me speedily. Be to me a strong rock, A house of defense to save me.

3 For you are my rock and my fortress, Therefore for your name's sake lead me and guide me.

4 Pluck me out of the net that they have laid secretly for me, For you are my stronghold.

5 Into your hand I commend my spirit. You redeem me, LORD, God of truth.

6 I hate those who regard lying vanities, But I trust in the LORD.

7 I will be glad and rejoice in your lovingkindness, For you have seen my affliction. You have known my soul in adversities.

8 You have not shut me up into the hand of the enemy. You have set my feet in a large place.

9 Have mercy on me, LORD, for I am in distress. My eye, my soul, and my body waste away with grief.

10 For my life is spent with sorrow, My years with sighing. My strength fails because of my iniquity. My bones are wasted away.

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.

12 I am forgotten from their hearts like a dead man. I am like broken pottery.

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.

14 But I trust in you, LORD. I said, You are my God.

15 My times are in your hand. Deliver me from the hand of my enemies, and from those who persecute me.

16 Make your face to shine on your servant. Save me in your lovingkindness.

17 Let me not be put to shame, LORD, for I have called on you. Let the wicked be put to shame. Let them be silent in She'ol.

18 Let the lying lips be mute, Which speak against the righteous insolently, with pride and contempt.

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!

20 In the covert of your presence will you hide them from the plotting of man. You will keep them secretly in a pavilion from the strife of tongues.

21 Praise be to the LORD, For he has shown me his marvelous lovingkindness in a strong city.

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.

23 Oh love the LORD, all you his holy ones! The LORD preserves the faithful, And pays back him who deals proudly in full.

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

The Message Bible MSG

1 I run to you, God; I run for dear life. Don't let me down! Take me seriously this time!

2 Get down on my level and listen, and please - no procrastination! Your granite cave a hiding place, your high cliff aerie a place of safety.

3 You're my cave to hide in, my cliff to climb. Be my safe leader, be my true mountain guide.

4 Free me from hidden traps; I want to hide in you.

5 I've put my life in your hands. You won't drop me, you'll never let me down.

6 I hate all this silly religion, but you, God, I trust.

7 I'm leaping and singing in the circle of your love; you saw my pain, you disarmed my tormentors,

8 You didn't leave me in their clutches but gave me room to breathe.

9 Be kind to me, God - I'm in deep, deep trouble again. I've cried my eyes out; I feel hollow inside.

10 My life leaks away, groan by groan; my years fade out in sighs. My troubles have worn me out, turned my bones to powder.

11 To my enemies I'm a monster; I'm ridiculed by the neighbors. My friends are horrified; they cross the street to avoid me.

12 They want to blot me from memory, forget me like a corpse in a grave, discard me like a broken dish in the trash.

13 The street-talk gossip has me "criminally insane"! Behind locked doors they plot how to ruin me for good.

14 Desperate, I throw myself on you: you are my God!

15 Hour by hour I place my days in your hand, safe from the hands out to get me.

16 Warm me, your servant, with a smile; save me because you love me.

17 Don't embarrass me by not showing up; I've given you plenty of notice. Embarrass the wicked, stand them up, leave them stupidly shaking their heads as they drift down to hell.

18 Gag those loudmouthed liars who heckle me, your follower, with jeers and catcalls.

19 What a stack of blessing you have piled up for those who worship you, Ready and waiting for all who run to you to escape an unkind world.

20 You hide them safely away from the opposition. As you slam the door on those oily, mocking faces, you silence the poisonous gossip.

21 Blessed God! His love is the wonder of the world.

22 I panicked. "Out of sight, out of mind," I said. But you heard me say it, you heard and listened.

23 Love God, all you saints; God takes care of all who stay close to him, But he pays back in full those arrogant enough to go it alone.

24 Be brave. Be strong. Don't give up. Expect God to get here soon.