Psalm 31

¹¹It is just as the Scripture says: “Anyone who believes in Him will never be put to shame.”

²in You, my God, I trust. Do not let me be put to shame; do not let my enemies exult over me.

¹In You, O Lord, I have taken refuge; let me never be put to shame.

²In Your justice, rescue and deliver me; incline Your ear and save me.

⁴In You our fathers trusted; they trusted and You delivered them.

⁵They cried out to You and were set free; they trusted in You and were not disappointed.

¹A Psalm of David. O Lord, hear my prayer. In Your faithfulness, give ear to my plea; in Your righteousness, answer me.

²³Kings will be your foster fathers, and their queens your nursing mothers. They will bow to you facedown and lick the dust at your feet. Then you will know that I am the Lord; those who hope in Me will never be put to shame.”

²In Your justice, rescue and deliver me; incline Your ear and save me.

³Be my rock of refuge, where I can always go. Give the command to save me, for You are my rock and my fortress.

²Do not hide Your face from me in my day of distress. Incline Your ear to me; answer me quickly when I call.

¹A prayer of David. Incline Your ear, O Lord, and answer me, for I am poor and needy.

³¹For their rock is not like our Rock, even our enemies concede.

¹⁵If anyone confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God.

¹⁶And we have come to know and believe the love that God has for us. God is love; whoever abides in love abides in God, and God in him.

²O Lord, hear my voice; let Your ears be attentive to my plea for mercy.

¹⁰Teach me to do Your will, for You are my God. May Your good Spirit lead me on level ground.

¹¹For the sake of Your name, O Lord, revive me. In Your righteousness, bring my soul out of trouble.

¹⁰They will not hunger or thirst, nor will scorching heat or sun beat down on them. For He who has compassion on them will guide them and lead them beside springs of water.

⁵Guide me in Your truth and teach me, for You are the God of my salvation; all day long I wait for You.

¹³However, when the Spirit of truth comes, He will guide you into all truth. For He will not speak on His own, but He will speak what He hears, and He will declare to you what is to come.

⁷⁹to shine on those who live in darkness and in the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the path of peace.”

⁹Help us, O God of our salvation, for the glory of Your name; deliver us and atone for our sins, for the sake of Your name.

¹⁵My eyes are always on the Lord, for He will free my feet from the mesh.

⁵The proud hide a snare for me; the cords of their net are spread along the path, and lures are set out for me. Selah

¹⁴May the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be pleasing in Your sight, O Lord, my Rock and my Redeemer.

²⁶Then they will come to their senses and escape the snare of the devil, who has taken them captive to his will.

⁶They spread a net for my feet; my soul was despondent. They dug a pit before me, but they themselves have fallen into it! Selah

⁵A man who flatters his neighbor spreads a net for his feet.

⁴⁶Then Jesus called out in a loud voice, “Father, into Your hands I commit My Spirit.” And when He had said this, He breathed His last.

⁵⁹While they were stoning him, Stephen appealed, “Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.”

⁴He is the Rock, His work is perfect; all His ways are just. A God of faithfulness without injustice, righteous and upright is He.

²³When I sing praise to You my lips will shout for joy, along with my soul, which You have redeemed.

¹⁸For you know that it was not with perishable things such as silver or gold that you were redeemed from the empty way of life you inherited from your forefathers,

¹⁹but with the precious blood of Christ, a lamb without blemish or spot.

¹⁸Thus by two unchangeable things in which it is impossible for God to lie, we who have fled to take hold of the hope set before us may be strongly encouraged.

⁵I hate the mob of evildoers, and refuse to sit with the wicked.

⁸Those who cling to worthless idols forsake His loving devotion.

¹⁵They are worthless, a work to be mocked. In the time of their punishment they will perish.

²⁰No, but the sacrifices of pagans are offered to demons, not to God. And I do not want you to be participants with demons.

⁴He who has clean hands and a pure heart, who does not lift up his soul to an idol or swear deceitfully.

⁸But they are altogether senseless and foolish, instructed by worthless idols made of wood!

¹³Shout for joy, O heavens; rejoice, O earth; break forth in song, O mountains! For the Lord has comforted His people, and He will have compassion on His afflicted ones.

⁹In all their distress, He too was afflicted, and the Angel of His Presence saved them. In His love and compassion He redeemed them; He lifted them up and carried them all the days of old.

¹⁵³Look upon my affliction and rescue me, for I have not forgotten Your law.

¹⁹Nevertheless, God’s firm foundation stands, bearing this seal: “The Lord knows those who are His,” and, “Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord must turn away from iniquity.”

⁹But now that you know God, or rather are known by God, how is it that you are turning back to those weak and worthless principles? Do you wish to be enslaved by them all over again?

¹⁶Yet You are our Father, though Abraham does not know us and Israel does not acknowledge us. You, O Lord, are our Father; our Redeemer from Everlasting is Your name.

¹⁶Indeed, He drew you from the jaws of distress to a spacious and broad place, to a table full of richness.

¹⁹He brought me out into the open; He rescued me because He delighted in me.

¹For the choirmaster. With stringed instruments. A Psalm of David. Answer me when I call, O God of my righteousness! You have relieved my distress; show me grace and hear my prayer.

³⁰How could one man pursue a thousand, or two put ten thousand to flight, unless their Rock had sold them, unless the Lord had given them up?

⁴⁶This day the Lord will deliver you into my hand. This day I will strike you down, cut off your head, and give the carcasses of the Philistine army to the birds of the air and the creatures of the earth. Then the whole world will know that there is a God in Israel.

¹⁸And you have declared this day how you have treated me well, for when the Lord delivered me into your hand, you did not kill me.

⁷My eyes fail from grief; they grow dim because of all my foes.

⁹My eyes grow dim with grief. I call to You daily, O Lord; I spread out my hands to You.

²⁶My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.

⁷My eyes have grown dim with grief, and my whole body is but a shadow.

¹⁴For I am afflicted all day long and punished every morning.

¹⁹A man is also chastened on his bed with pain and constant distress in his bones,

²⁰so that he detests his bread, and his soul loathes his favorite food.

³When I kept silent, my bones became brittle from my groaning all day long.

⁴For day and night Your hand was heavy upon me; my strength was drained as in the summer heat. Selah

³There is no soundness in my body because of Your anger; there is no rest in my bones because of my sin.

¹⁵From my youth I was afflicted and near death. I have borne Your terrors; I am in despair.

²I have deep sorrow and unceasing anguish in my heart.

³³So He ended their days in futility, and their years in sudden terror.

³For my days vanish like smoke, and my bones burn like glowing embers.

⁴My heart is afflicted, and withered like grass; I even forget to eat my bread.

¹¹My beloved and friends shun my disease, and my kinsmen stand at a distance.

⁸You have removed my friends from me; You have made me repulsive to them; I am confined and cannot escape.

⁵⁶But this has all happened so that the writings of the prophets would be fulfilled.” Then all the disciples deserted Him and fled.

¹⁸You have removed my beloved and my friend; darkness is my closest companion.

⁸“A vile disease has been poured into him; he will never get up from where he lies!”

⁹Even my close friend whom I trusted, the one who shared my bread, has lifted up his heel against me.

¹⁹You know my reproach, my shame and disgrace. All my adversaries are before You.

²⁰Insults have broken my heart, and I am in despair. I looked for sympathy, but there was none, for comforters, but I found no one.

⁴I am counted among those descending to the Pit. I am like a man without strength.

⁵I am forsaken among the dead, like the slain who lie in the grave, whom You remember no more, who are cut off from Your care.

⁸³Though I am like a wineskin dried up by smoke, I do not forget Your statutes.

²¹Does not the potter have the right to make from the same lump of clay one vessel for special occasions and another for common use?

²²What if God, intending to show His wrath and make His power known, bore with great patience the vessels of His wrath, prepared for destruction?

¹⁴It will break in pieces like a potter’s jar, shattered so that no fragment can be found. Not a shard will be found in the dust large enough to scoop the coals from a hearth or to skim the water from a cistern.”

⁹You will break them with an iron scepter; You will shatter them like pottery.”

¹¹I said, “I will never again see the Lord, even the Lord, in the land of the living; I will no longer look on mankind with those who dwell in this world.

¹²My dwelling has been picked up and removed from me like a shepherd’s tent. I have rolled up my life like a weaver; He cuts me off from the loom; from day until night You make an end of me.

¹⁰For I have heard the whispering of many: “Terror is on every side! Report him; let us report him!” All my trusted friends watch for my fall: “Perhaps he will be deceived so that we may prevail against him and take our vengeance upon him.”

¹When morning came, all the chief priests and elders of the people conspired against Jesus to put Him to death.

²²You summoned my terrors on every side, as for the day of an appointed feast. In the day of the Lord’s anger no one escaped or survived; my enemy has destroyed those I nurtured and reared.

³³Then Saul hurled his spear at Jonathan to kill him. So Jonathan knew that his father was determined to kill David.

⁵Whoever slanders his neighbor in secret, I will put to silence; the one with haughty eyes and a proud heart, I will not endure.

⁵⁹Now the chief priests and the whole Sanhedrin were seeking false testimony against Jesus in order to put Him to death.

³When I am afraid, I put my trust in You.

⁴In God, whose word I praise—in God I trust. I will not be afraid. What can man do to me?

²The Lord is my rock, my fortress, and my deliverer. My God is my rock, in whom I take refuge, my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold.

⁵Why are you downcast, O my soul? Why the unease within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise Him, my Savior and my God.

¹A Miktam of David. Preserve me, O God, for in You I take refuge.

²I said to the Lord, “You are my Lord; apart from You I have no good thing.”

⁶I say to the Lord, “You are my God.” Hear, O Lord, my cry for help.

⁴²A second time He went away and prayed, “My Father, if this cup cannot pass unless I drink it, may Your will be done.”

⁷Jesus replied, “It is not for you to know times or seasons that the Father has fixed by His own authority.

¹When Jesus had spoken these things, He lifted up His eyes to heaven and said, “Father, the hour has come. Glorify Your Son, that Your Son may glorify You.

¹To everything there is a season, and a time for every purpose under heaven:

²a time to be born and a time to die, a time to plant and a time to uproot,

⁶Therefore Jesus told them, “Although your time is always at hand, My time has not yet come.

⁶Listen to my cry, for I am brought quite low. Rescue me from my pursuers, for they are too strong for me.

¹“Why does the Almighty not reserve times for judgment? Why may those who know Him never see His days?

⁶Many ask, “Who can show us the good?” Shine the light of Your face upon us, O Lord.

⁴Turn, O Lord, and deliver my soul; save me because of Your loving devotion.

³Restore us, O God, and cause Your face to shine upon us, that we may be saved.

⁹To the Lord our God belong compassion and forgiveness, even though we have rebelled against Him

¹⁵For He says to Moses: “I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.”

¹⁷So now, our God, hear the prayers and petitions of Your servant. For Your sake, O Lord, cause Your face to shine upon Your desolate sanctuary.

¹⁸Incline Your ear, O my God, and hear; open Your eyes and see the desolation of the city that bears Your name. For we are not presenting our petitions before You because of our righteous acts, but because of Your great compassion.

²in You, my God, I trust. Do not let me be put to shame; do not let my enemies exult over me.

³Surely none who wait for You will be put to shame; but those who engage in treachery without cause will be disgraced.

¹¹But the Lord is with me like a fearsome warrior. Therefore, my persecutors will stumble and will not prevail. Since they have not succeeded, they will be utterly put to shame, with an everlasting disgrace that will never be forgotten.

¹⁷It is not the dead who praise the Lord, nor any who descend into silence.

⁵Those who look to Him are radiant with joy; their faces shall never be ashamed.

¹¹Behold, all who rage against you will be ashamed and disgraced; those who contend with you will be reduced to nothing and will perish.

¹²You will seek them but will not find them. Those who wage war against you will come to nothing.

²⁶May those who gloat in my distress be ashamed and confounded; may those who exalt themselves over me be clothed in shame and reproach.

¹⁵to execute judgment on everyone, and to convict all the ungodly of every ungodly act of wickedness and every harsh word spoken against Him by ungodly sinners.”

⁴They pour out arrogant words; all workers of iniquity boast.

³Do not boast so proudly, or let arrogance come from your mouth, for the Lord is a God who knows, and by Him actions are weighed.

¹⁷No weapon formed against you shall prosper, and you will refute every tongue that accuses you. This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord, and their vindication is from Me,” declares the Lord.

³who sharpen their tongues like swords and aim their bitter words like arrows,

⁴ambushing the innocent in seclusion, shooting suddenly, without fear.

⁷When Paul arrived, the Jews who had come down from Jerusalem stood around him, bringing many serious charges that they could not prove.

⁹Rather, as it is written: “No eye has seen, no ear has heard, no heart has imagined, what God has prepared for those who love Him.”

⁴From ancient times no one has heard, no ear has perceived, no eye has seen any God besides You, who acts on behalf of those who wait for Him.

²³They are new every morning; great is Your faithfulness!

²⁴“The Lord is my portion,” says my soul, “therefore I will hope in Him.”

⁴and into an inheritance that is imperishable, undefiled, and unfading, reserved in heaven for you,

⁵who through faith are shielded by God’s power for the salvation that is ready to be revealed in the last time.

²Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things.

³For you died, and your life is now hidden with Christ in God.

⁵Listen, my beloved brothers: Has not God chosen the poor of this world to be rich in faith and to inherit the kingdom He promised those who love Him?

⁵For in the day of trouble He will hide me in His shelter; He will conceal me under the cover of His tent; He will set me high upon a rock.

⁷You are my hiding place. You protect me from trouble; You surround me with songs of deliverance. Selah

¹He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High will abide in the shadow of the Almighty.

²I will say to the Lord, “You are my refuge and my fortress, my God, in whom I trust.”

²¹You will be hidden from the scourge of the tongue, and will not fear havoc when it comes.

²Hide me from the scheming of the wicked, from the mob of workers of iniquity,

³who sharpen their tongues like swords and aim their bitter words like arrows,

⁵The proud hide a snare for me; the cords of their net are spread along the path, and lures are set out for me. Selah

⁷When Saul was told that David had gone to Keilah, he said, “God has delivered him into my hand, for he has trapped himself by entering a town with gates and bars.”

⁸Then Saul summoned all his troops to go to war at Keilah and besiege David and his men.

⁷Show the wonders of Your loving devotion, You who save by Your right hand those who seek refuge from their foes.

¹⁸Now behold, this day I have made you like a fortified city, an iron pillar, and bronze walls against the whole land—against the kings of Judah, its officials, its priests, and the people of the land.

⁹But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, to proclaim the virtues of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light.

²³This is from the Lord, and it is marvelous in our eyes.

¹A Psalm. Sing to the Lord a new song, for He has done wonders; His right hand and holy arm have gained Him the victory.

¹¹In my alarm I said, “All men are liars!”

⁷During the days of Jesus’ earthly life, He offered up prayers and petitions with loud cries and tears to the One who could save Him from death, and He was heard because of His reverence.

⁹The Lord has heard my cry for mercy; the Lord accepts my prayer.

¹⁶Your wrath has swept over me; Your terrors have destroyed me.

¹¹Then He said to me, “Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel. Look, they are saying, ‘Our bones are dried up, and our hope has perished; we are cut off.’

¹⁴How much less, then, when you say that you do not see Him, that your case is before Him and you must wait for Him,

¹⁰Hate evil, O you who love the Lord! He preserves the souls of His saints; He delivers them from the hand of the wicked.

²Rise up, O Judge of the earth; render a reward to the proud.

²⁰The Lord preserves all who love Him, but all the wicked He will destroy.

²⁷My sheep listen to My voice; I know them, and they follow Me.

²⁸I give them eternal life, and they will never perish. No one can snatch them out of My hand.

⁹Fear the Lord, you His saints, for those who fear Him lack nothing.

⁴Sing to the Lord, O you His saints, and praise His holy name.

¹⁴Wait patiently for the Lord; be strong and courageous. Wait patiently for the Lord!

⁵Blessed is he whose help is the God of Jacob, whose hope is in the Lord his God,

³Strengthen the limp hands and steady the feeble knees!

⁴Say to those with anxious hearts: “Be strong, do not fear! Behold, your God will come with vengeance. With divine retribution He will come to save you.”

¹¹being strengthened with all power according to His glorious might so that you may have full endurance and patience, and joyfully

¹¹The Lord gives His people strength; the Lord blesses His people with peace.

¹²Therefore strengthen your limp hands and weak knees.

¹³Make straight paths for your feet, so that the lame may not be disabled, but rather healed.