Psalms 31

1 to/for to conduct melody to/for David in/on/with you LORD to seek refuge not be ashamed to/for forever: enduring in/on/with righteousness your to escape me

[For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David.] In you, YHWH, I take refuge. Let me never be disappointed. Deliver me in your righteousness.

2 to stretch to(wards) me ear your haste to rescue me to be to/for me to/for rock security to/for house: home fortress to/for to save me

Bow down your ear to me. Deliver me speedily. Be to me a strong rock, a house of defense to save me.

3 for crag my and fortress my you(m. s.) and because name your to lead me and to guide me

For you are my rock and my fortress, therefore for your name's sake lead me and guide me.

4 to come out: send me from net this to hide to/for me for you(m. s.) security my

Pluck me out of the net that they have laid secretly for me, for you are my stronghold.

5 in/on/with hand your to reckon: overseer spirit my to ransom [obj] me LORD God truth: faithful

Into your hands I commit my spirit. You redeem me, YHWH, God of truth.

6 to hate [the] to keep: look at vanity vanity: vain and I to(wards) LORD to trust

I hate those who regard lying vanities, but I trust in YHWH.

7 to rejoice and to rejoice in/on/with kindness your which to see: see [obj] affliction my to know in/on/with distress soul my

I will be glad and rejoice in your loving kindness, for you have seen my affliction. You have known my soul in adversities.

8 and not to shut me in/on/with hand: power enemy to stand: stand in/on/with broad foot my

You have not shut me up into the hand of the enemy. You have set my feet in a large place.

9 be gracious me LORD for to constrain to/for me to waste in/on/with vexation eye my soul my and belly: body my

Have mercy on me, YHWH, for I am in distress. My eye, my soul, and my body waste away with grief.

10 for to end: expend in/on/with sorrow life my and year my in/on/with sighing to stumble in/on/with iniquity: crime my strength my and bone my to waste

For my life is spent with sorrow, my years with sighing. My strength fails because of my affliction, and my bones waste away.

11 from all to vex me to be reproach and to/for neighboring my much and dread to/for to know my to see: see me in/on/with outside to wander from me

Because of all my adversaries I have become utterly contemptible to my neighbors, A fear to my acquaintances. Those who saw me on the street fled from me.

12 to forget like/as to die from heart to be like/as article/utensil to perish

I am forgotten from their hearts like a dead man. I am like broken pottery.

13 for to hear: hear slander many terror from around: side in/on/with to found they unitedness upon me to/for to take: take soul: life my to plan

For I have heard the slander of many, terror on every side, while they conspire together against me, they plot to take away my life.

14 and I upon you to trust LORD to say God my you(m. s.)

But I trust in you, YHWH. I said, "You are my God."

15 in/on/with hand your time my to rescue me from hand enemy my and from to pursue me

My times are in your hand. Deliver me from the hand of my enemies, and from those who persecute me.

16 to light [emph?] face your upon servant/slave your to save me in/on/with kindness your

Make your face to shine on your servant. Save me in your loving kindness.

17 LORD not be ashamed for to call: call to you be ashamed wicked to silence: silent to/for hell: Sheol (Sheol h7585)

Let me not be disappointed, YHWH, for I have called on you. Let the wicked be disappointed. Let them be silent in Sheol. (Sheol h7585)

18 be dumb lips deception [the] to speak: speak upon righteous arrogant in/on/with pride and contempt

Let the lying lips be mute, which speak against the righteous insolently, with pride and contempt.

19 what? many goodness your which to treasure to/for afraid your to work to/for to seek refuge in/on/with you before son: child man

Oh how great is your goodness, which you have stored up for those who fear you, which you have worked for those who take refuge in you, before the descendants of Adam.

20 to hide them in/on/with secrecy face your from conspiracy man to treasure them in/on/with booth from strife tongue

In the shelter of your presence you will hide them from the plotting of man. You will keep them secretly in a dwelling away from the strife of tongues.

21 to bless LORD for to wonder kindness his to/for me in/on/with city siege

Praise be to YHWH, for he has shown me his marvelous loving kindness in a besieged city.

22 and I to say in/on/with to hurry I to cut off from before eye: seeing your surely to hear: hear voice supplication my in/on/with to cry I to(wards) you

As for me, I said in my haste, "I am cut off from before your eyes." Nevertheless you heard the voice of my petitions when I cried to you.

23 to love: lover [obj] LORD all pious his faithful to watch LORD and to complete upon remainder to make: do pride

Oh love YHWH, all you his faithful ones. YHWH preserves the faithful, and fully recompenses him who behaves arrogantly.

24 to strengthen: strengthen and to strengthen heart your all [the] to wait: hope to/for LORD

Be strong, and let your heart take courage, all you who hope in YHWH.