Psalms 31

NEW JERUSALEM	DOUAI-RHEIMS
1 [For the choirmaster Psalm Of David] In you, Yahweh, I have taken refuge, let me never be put toshame, in your saving justice deliver me, rescue me,	1 Unto the end, a psalm for David, in an ecstasy.
2 turn your ear to me, make haste. Be for me a rock-fastness, a fortified citadel to save me.	2 In thee, O Lord, have I hoped, Iet me never be confounded: deliver me in thy justice.
3 You are my rock, my rampart; true to your name, lead me and guide 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 Draw me out of the net they have spread for me, for you are my refuge;	4 For thou art my strength and my refuge; and for thy name's sake thou wilt lead me, and nourish me.
5 to your hands I commit my spirit, by you have I been redeemed. God of truth,	5 Thou wilt bring me out of this snare, which they have hidden for me: for thou art my protector.
6 you hate those who serve useless idols; but my trust is in Yahweh:	6 Into thy hands I commend my spirit: thou hast redeemed me, O Lord, the God of truth.
7 I will delight and rejoice in your faithful love! You, who have seen my misery, and witnessed themiseries of my soul,	7 Thou hast hated them that regard vanities, to no purpose. But I have hoped in the Lord:
8 have not handed me over to the enemy, but have given me freedom to roam at large.	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 Take pity on me, Yahweh, for I am in trouble. Vexation is gnawing away my eyes, my soul deep within me.	9 And thou hast not shut me up in the hands of the enemy: thou hast set my feet in a spacious place.
10 For my life is worn out with sorrow, and my years with sighs. My strength gives way under my misery,and my bones are al wasted away.	10 Have mercy on me, O Lord, for I am afflicted: my eye is troubled with wrath, my soul, and my belly:
11 The sheer number of my enemies makes me contemptible, loathsome to my neighbours, and myfriends shrink from me in horror. When people see me in the street they take to their heels.	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 I have no more place in their hearts than a corpse, or something lost.	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 Al I hear is slander -- terror wherever I turn -- as they plot together against me, scheming to take mylife.	13 I am forgotten as one dead from the heart. I am become as a vessel that is destroyed.
14 But my trust is in you, Yahweh; I say, 'You are my God,'	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 every moment of my life is in your hands, rescue me from the clutches of my foes who pursue me;	15 But I have put my trust in thee, O Lord: I said: Thou art my God.
16 let your face shine on your servant, save me in your faithful love.	16 My lots are in thy hands. Deliver me out of the hands of my enemies; and from them that persecute me.
17 I cal on you, Yahweh, so let disgrace fal not on me, but on the wicked. Let them go down to Sheol insilence,	17 Make thy face to shine upon thy servant; save me in thy mercy.
18 muzzles on their lying mouths, which speak arrogantly against the upright in pride and contempt.	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 Yahweh, what quantities of good things you have in store for those who fear you, and bestow onthose who make you their refuge, for al humanity to see.	19 Let deceitful lips be made dumb. Which speak iniquity against the just, with pride and abuse.
20 Safe in your presence you hide them, far from human plotting, shielding them in your tent, far fromcontentious tongues.	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 Blessed be Yahweh who works for me miracles of his faithful love (in a fortified city)!	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 In a state of terror I cried, 'I have been cut off from your sight!' Yet you heard my plea for help when Icried out to you.	22 Blessed be the Lord, for he hath shewn his wonderful mercy to me in a fortified city.
23 Love Yahweh, al his faithful: Yahweh protects his loyal servants, but he repays the arrogant withinterest.	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 Be brave, take heart, al who put your hope in Yahweh.	24 O love the Lord, all ye his saints: for the Lord will require truth, and will repay them abundantly that act proudly.
	25 Do ye manfully, and let your heart be strengthened, all ye that hope in the Lord.