{"id":868,"date":"2024-06-08T12:18:41","date_gmt":"2024-06-08T16:18:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/eng\/psalm-31"},"modified":"2024-06-08T12:18:43","modified_gmt":"2024-06-08T16:18:43","slug":"psalm-31","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/2024\/06\/08\/psalm-31\/","title":{"rendered":"Psalm 31"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Psa 31:1  To the chief musician. A Psalm of David. In You, O Jehovah, I sought refuge; let me never be ashamed; deliver me in Your righteousness.<br \/>\nPsa 31:2  Bow down Your ear to me; deliver me quickly, be a strong rock to me, for a house of fortresses to save me.<br \/>\nPsa 31:3  For You are my Rock and my Fortress; and for Your name&#8217;s sake lead me and guide me.<br \/>\nPsa 31:4  Bring me out of the net that they hid for me, for You are my strength.<br \/>\nPsa 31:5  Into Your hand I commit My spirit; You have redeemed Me, O Jehovah, God of truth.<br \/>\nPsa 31:6  I have hated those keeping worthless idols; but I trust in Jehovah.<br \/>\nPsa 31:7  And I will be glad and rejoice in Your mercy; for You have seen my affliction; You have known the distresses in my soul;<br \/>\nPsa 31:8  and have not shut me up into the hand of the enemy; You have set my feet in a broad place.<br \/>\nPsa 31:9  Be gracious to me, O Jehovah, for I am in trouble; my eye has wasted away with grief, my soul and my belly.<br \/>\nPsa 31:10  For my life is ending with grief, and my years with sighing; my strength fails because of my iniquity, and my bones have wasted away.<br \/>\nPsa 31:11  I was a reproach among all my foes, but exceedingly to my neighbors; and I was a dread to my friends; those seeing me fled outside from me.<br \/>\nPsa 31:12  I am forgotten like one dead from the heart; I am like a perishing vessel.<br \/>\nPsa 31:13  For I have heard the slander of many; fear is all around; because they are fixing plots together against me, they planned to take away my life.<br \/>\nPsa 31:14  But I trusted in You, O Jehovah; I said, You are my God.<br \/>\nPsa 31:15  My times are in Your hand; deliver me from the hand of my enemies and from those who pursue me.<br \/>\nPsa 31:16  Make Your face shine on Your servant; save me in Your mercy.<br \/>\nPsa 31:17  Let me not be ashamed, O Jehovah; for I have called upon You; let the wicked be ashamed; let them be silent in Sheol.<br \/>\nPsa 31:18  Let the lying lips be silenced which speak recklessly against the righteous with pride and scorn.<br \/>\nPsa 31:19  How great is Your goodness which You have laid up for those who fear You; You have worked for those who trust in You before the sons of mankind.<br \/>\nPsa 31:20  In the secrecy of Your presence You shall hide them from man&#8217;s plots; You shall cover them in a booth, from the strife of tongues.<br \/>\nPsa 31:21  Blessed be Jehovah, for He has worked His mercy wondrously to me in a besieged city.<br \/>\nPsa 31:22  For I said in my haste, I am cut off from Your eyes; surely You heard the voice of my prayers when I cried to You.<br \/>\nPsa 31:23  O love Jehovah, all you saints of His; Jehovah preserves the faithful, and abundantly repays the proud doer.<br \/>\nPsa 31:24  Be strong, and He will make your heart stronger, all you who hope in Jehovah. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Psa 31:1 To the chief musician. A Psalm of David. In You, O Jehovah, I sought refuge; let me never be ashamed; deliver me in Your righteousness. Psa 31:2 Bow down Your ear to me; deliver me quickly, be a strong rock to me, for a house of fortresses to save me. 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