Psalm 31 In te, Domine, speravi Tone 8.3
4 Take me out of the net that they have secretly set / for me, *
for you are my / to-wer of strength.
5 Into your hands I commend my / spir-it, *
for you have redeemed me, O Lord, / O God of truth.
6 I hate those who cling to worthless / i-dols, *
and I put my / trust in the Lord.
7 I will rejoice and be glad because of your / me-rcy; *
for you have seen my affliction; you / know my di-stress.
8 You have not shut me up in the power of the e- / ne-my; *
you have set my feet in / an o-pen place.
9 Have mercy on me, O Lord, for I am in / trou-ble; *
my eye is consumed with sorrow, and also my throat / and my bel-ly.
10 For my life is wasted with grief, and my years with / sigh-ing; *
my strength fails me because of affliction, and my / bones are con-sumed.
11 I have become a reproach to all my enemies and even to my neighbors, a dismay to those of my ac- / quain-tance; *
when they see me in the street / they a-void me.
12 I am forgotten, out of mind like / one dead; *
I am as useless as / a bro-ken pot.
13 For I have heard the whispering of the crowd; fear is all / a-round; *
they put their heads together against me; they plot / to take my life.
14 But as for me, I have trusted in you, / O Lord. *
I have said, / “You are my God.
15 My times are in / your hand; *
rescue me from the hand of my enemies, and from those / who per-se-cute me.
16 Make your face to shine upon your / ser-vant, *
and in your loving- / kind-ness save me.”
17 Lord, let me not be ashamed for having called up- / on you; *
rather, let the wicked be put to shame; let them be si- / lent in the grave.
18 Let the lying lips be silenced which speak against the / right-eous, *
haughtily, disdainfully, / and with con-tempt.
19 How great is your goodness, O Lord! which you have laid up for those who / fear you; *
which you have done in the sight of all for those who put / their trust in you.
20 You hide them in the covert of your presence from those who slan- / der them; *
you keep them in your helter from / the strife of tongues.
21 Blessed be / the Lord! *
for he has shown me the wonders of his love in a / be-sieged ci-ty.
22 Yet I said in my alarm, “I have been cut off from the sight of / your eyes.” *
Nevertheless, you heard the sound of my entreaty when I / cried out to you.
23 Love the Lord, all you who wor- / ship him; *
the Lord protects the faithful, but repays to the full those who / act haugh-ti-ly.
24 Be strong and let your heart take / cou-rage, *
all you who / wait for the Lord.
Glory to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy / Spir-it: *
as it was in the beginning, is now, and will be for / e-ver. A-men.
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