Thematic Bible
Psalm 31:1 (show verse)
In you, O LORD, do I take refuge; let me never be put to shame; in your righteousness deliver me!
Psalm 31:2 (show verse)
Incline your ear to me; rescue me speedily! Be a rock of refuge for me, a strong fortress to save me!
Psalm 31:3 (show verse)
For you are my rock and my fortress; and for your name's sake you lead me and guide me;
Psalm 31:4 (show verse)
you take me out of the net they have hidden for me, for you are my refuge.
Psalm 31:5 (show verse)
Into your hand I commit my spirit; you have redeemed me, O LORD, faithful God.
Psalm 31:6 (show verse)
I hate those who pay regard to worthless idols, but I trust in the LORD.
Psalm 31:7 (show verse)
I will rejoice and be glad in your steadfast love, because you have seen my affliction; you have known the distress of my soul,
Psalm 31:8 (show verse)
and you have not delivered me into the hand of the enemy; you have set my feet in a broad place.
Psalm 31:9 (show verse)
Be gracious to me, O LORD, for I am in distress; my eye is wasted from grief; my soul and my body also.
Psalm 31:10 (show verse)
For my life is spent with sorrow, and my years with sighing; my strength fails because of my iniquity, and my bones waste away.
Psalm 31:11 (show verse)
Because of all my adversaries I have become a reproach, especially to my neighbors, and an object of dread to my acquaintances; those who see me in the street flee from me.
Psalm 31:12 (show verse)
I have been forgotten like one who is dead; I have become like a broken vessel.
Psalm 31:13 (show verse)
For I hear the whispering of many-- terror on every side!-- as they scheme together against me, as they plot to take my life.
Psalm 31:14 (show verse)
But I trust in you, O LORD; I say, "You are my God."
Psalm 31:15 (show verse)
My times are in your hand; rescue me from the hand of my enemies and from my persecutors!
Psalm 31:16 (show verse)
Make your face shine on your servant; save me in your steadfast love!
Psalm 31:17 (show verse)
O LORD, let me not be put to shame, for I call upon you; let the wicked be put to shame; let them go silently to Sheol.
Psalm 31:18 (show verse)
Let the lying lips be mute, which speak insolently against the righteous in pride and contempt.
Psalm 31:19 (show verse)
Oh, how abundant is your goodness, which you have stored up for those who fear you and worked for those who take refuge in you, in the sight of the children of mankind!
Psalm 31:20 (show verse)
In the cover of your presence you hide them from the plots of men; you store them in your shelter from the strife of tongues.
Psalm 31:21 (show verse)
Blessed be the LORD, for he has wondrously shown his steadfast love to me when I was in a besieged city.
Psalm 31:22 (show verse)
I had said in my alarm, "I am cut off from your sight." But you heard the voice of my pleas for mercy when I cried to you for help.
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Psalm 31:23 (show verse)
Love the LORD, all you his saints! The LORD preserves the faithful but abundantly repays the one who acts in pride.
Psalm 31:24 (show verse)
Be strong, and let your heart take courage, all you who wait for the LORD!