{"collection":"Bible & Christianity","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/bib/kjv/psa031.htm","path":"bib/kjv/psa031.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/bib/kjv/psa031.htm","text":"1\u00a0In thee, O LORD, do I put my trust; let me never be ashamed: deliver me in thy righteousness.\n \n2\u00a0Bow down thine ear to me; deliver me speedily: be thou my strong rock, for an house of defence to save me.\n \n3\u00a0For thou art my rock and my fortress; therefore for thy name's sake lead me, and guide me.\n \n4\u00a0Pull me out of the net that they have laid privily for me: for thou art my strength.\n \n5\u00a0Into thine hand I commit my spirit: thou hast redeemed me, O LORD God of truth.\n \n6\u00a0I have hated them that regard lying vanities: but I trust in the LORD.\n \n7\u00a0I will be glad and rejoice in thy mercy: for thou hast considered my trouble; thou hast known my soul in adversities;\n \n8\u00a0And hast not shut me up into the hand of the enemy: thou hast set my feet in a large room.\n \n9\u00a0Have mercy upon me, O LORD, for I am in trouble: mine eye is consumed with grief, yea, my soul and my belly.\n \n10\u00a0For my life is spent with grief, and my years with sighing: my strength faileth because of mine iniquity, and my bones are consumed.\n \n11\u00a0I was a reproach among all mine enemies, but especially among my neighbours, and a fear to mine acquaintance: they that did see me without fled from me.\n \n12\u00a0I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind: I am like a broken vessel.\n \n13\u00a0For I have heard the slander of many: fear was on every side: while they took counsel together against me, they devised to take away my life.\n \n14\u00a0But I trusted in thee, O LORD: I said, Thou art my God.\n \n15\u00a0My times are in thy hand: deliver me from the hand of mine enemies, and from them that persecute me.\n \n16\u00a0Make thy face to shine upon thy servant: save me for thy mercies' sake.\n \n17\u00a0Let me not be ashamed, O LORD; for I have called upon thee: let the wicked be ashamed, and let them be silent in the grave.\n \n18\u00a0Let the lying lips be put to silence; which speak grievous things proudly and contemptuously against the righteous.\n \n19\u00a0Oh how great is thy goodness, which thou hast laid up for them that fear thee; which thou hast wrought for them that trust in thee before the sons of men!\n \n20\u00a0Thou shalt hide them in the secret of thy presence from the pride of man: thou shalt keep them secretly in a pavilion from the strife of tongues.\n \n21\u00a0Blessed be the LORD: for he hath shewed me his marvellous kindness in a strong city.\n \n22\u00a0For I said in my haste, I am cut off from before thine eyes: nevertheless thou heardest the voice of my supplications when I cried unto thee.\n \n23\u00a0O love the LORD, all ye his saints: for the LORD preserveth the faithful, and plentifully rewardeth the proud doer.\n \n24\u00a0Be of good courage, and he shall strengthen your heart, all ye that hope in the LORD.","title":"King James Version: Psalms: Psalms Chapter 31","type":"page"}