Psalms 31

NEW AMERICAN BIBLE	DOUAI-RHEIMS
1 For the leader. A psalm of David.	1 Unto the end, a psalm for David, in an ecstasy.
2 In you, LORD, I take refuge; let me never be put to shame. In your justice deliver me;	2 In thee, O Lord, have I hoped, Iet me never be confounded: deliver me in thy justice.
3 incline your ear to me; make haste to rescue me! Be my rock of refuge, a stronghold to save me.	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.
4 You are my rock and my fortress; for your name's sake lead and guide me.	4 For thou art my strength and my refuge; and for thy name's sake thou wilt lead me, and nourish me.
5 Free me from the net they have set for me, for you are my refuge.	5 Thou wilt bring me out of this snare, which they have hidden for me: for thou art my protector.
6 Into your hands I commend my spirit; you will redeem me, LORD, faithful God.	6 Into thy hands I commend my spirit: thou hast redeemed me, O Lord, the God of truth.
7 You hate those who serve worthless idols, but I trust in the LORD.	7 Thou hast hated them that regard vanities, to no purpose. But I have hoped in the Lord:
8 I will rejoice and be glad in your love, once you have seen my misery, observed my distress.	8 I will be glad and rejoice in thy mercy. For thou best regarded my humility, thou hast saved my soul out of distresses.
9 You will not abandon me into enemy hands, but will set my feet in a free and open space.	9 And thou hast not shut me up in the hands of the enemy: thou hast set my feet in a spacious place.
10 Be gracious to me, LORD, for I am in distress; with grief my eyes are wasted, my soul and body spent.	10 Have mercy on me, O Lord, for I am afflicted: my eye is troubled with wrath, my soul, and my belly:
11 My life is worn out by sorrow, my years by sighing. My strength fails in affliction; my bones are consumed.	11 For my life is wasted with grief: and my years in sighs. My strength is weakened through poverty and my bones are disturbed.
12 To all my foes I am a thing of scorn, to my neighbors, a dreaded sight, a horror to my friends. When they see me in the street, they quickly shy away.	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.
13 I am forgotten, out of mind like the dead; I am like a shattered dish.	13 I am forgotten as one dead from the heart. I am become as a vessel that is destroyed.
14 I hear the whispers of the crowd; terrors are all around me. They conspire against me; they plot to take my life.	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.
15 But I trust in you, LORD; I say, "You are my God."	15 But I have put my trust in thee, O Lord: I said: Thou art my God.
16 My times are in your hands; rescue me from my enemies, from the hands of my pursuers.	16 My lots are in thy hands. Deliver me out of the hands of my enemies; and from them that persecute me.
17 Let your face shine on your servant; save me in your kindness.	17 Make thy face to shine upon thy servant; save me in thy mercy.
18 Do not let me be put to shame, for I have called to you, LORD. Put the wicked to shame; reduce them to silence in Sheol.	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.
19 Strike dumb their lying lips, proud lips that attack the just in contempt and scorn.	19 Let deceitful lips be made dumb. Which speak iniquity against the just, with pride and abuse.
20 How great is your goodness, Lord, stored up for those who fear you. You display it for those who trust you, in the sight of all the people.	20 O how great is the multitude of thy sweetness, O Lord, which thou hast hidden for them that fear thee! Which thou hast wrought for them that hope in thee, in the sight of the sons of men.
21 You hide them in the shelter of your presence, safe from scheming enemies. You keep them in your abode, safe from plotting tongues.	21 Thou shalt hide them in the secret of thy face, from the disturbance of men. Thou shalt protect them in thy tabernacle from the contradiction of tongues.
22 Blessed be the LORD, who has shown me wondrous love, and been for me a city most secure.	22 Blessed be the Lord, for he hath shewn his wonderful mercy to me in a fortified city.
23 Once I said in my anguish, "I am shut out from your sight." Yet you heard my plea, when I cried out to you.	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.
24 Love the LORD, all you faithful. The LORD protects the loyal, but repays the arrogant in full.	24 O love the Lord, all ye his saints: for the Lord will require truth, and will repay them abundantly that act proudly.
25 Be strong and take heart, all you who hope in the LORD.	25 Do ye manfully, and let your heart be strengthened, all ye that hope in the Lord.