Psalms 31 ~ 33

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31:1In You, O Jehovah, do I take refuge; / Never let me be put to shame. / Rescue me in Your righteousness. Compare
31:2Incline Your ear to me; / Deliver me speedily. / Be to me a rock of protection, / A fortress, to save me. Compare
31:3For You are my crag and my fortress; / Therefore for Your name's sake / Lead me and guide me. Compare
31:4Bring me out of the net / That they have secretly laid for me, / For You are my protection. Compare
31:5Into Your hand I commit my spirit; / Redeem me, O Jehovah, God of truth. Compare
31:6I hate those who regard vanities of falsehood, / But I trust in Jehovah. Compare
31:7I will exult and rejoice in Your lovingkindness, / Since You have seen my affliction; / You know the distress of my soul. Compare
31:8And You have not delivered me into the hand of the enemy; / You have made my feet stand in a place broad and free. Compare
31:9Be gracious to me, O Jehovah, for I am in distress. / My eye is wasted away with grief, / Indeed my soul and body. Compare
31:10For my life has been consumed in sorrow, / And my years, in sighing. / My strength fails because of my iniquity, / And my bones have wasted away. Compare
31:11Because of all my adversaries, / I have become a reproach, / And especially so to my neighbors, / And something dreaded to my acquaintances; / Those who see me on the street flee from me. Compare
31:12I am forgotten, like a dead man out of mind; / I am like a destroyed vessel. Compare
31:13For I hear the slander of many; / Terror is on every side. / When they take counsel together against me, / They scheme to take my life. Compare
31:14But I trust in You, O Jehovah; / I say, You are my God. Compare
31:15My times are in Your hand; / Deliver me from the hand of my enemies and from those who pursue me. Compare
31:16Cause Your face to shine upon Your servant; / Save me in Your lovingkindness. Compare
31:17O Jehovah, do not let me be put to shame when I call out to You; / Let the wicked be put to shame; let them be silent in Sheol. Compare
31:18Let the lips of falsehood be made dumb, / Which speak arrogantly against the righteous / With pride and contempt. Compare
31:19How great is Your goodness, / Which You have stored up for those who fear You, / Which You have accomplished in the sight of the sons of men / For those who take refuge in You! Compare
31:20You hide them in the hiding place of Your presence / Apart from the conspiracies of men; / You lay them away secretly in a shelter / Apart from the contention of tongues. Compare
31:21Blessed be Jehovah, / For He displayed His lovingkindness wondrously / To me in a fortified city. Compare
31:22I, on my part, had said in my alarm, / I am cut off before Your eyes; / But instead You heard / The voice of my supplications / When I cried out to You. Compare
31:23Love Jehovah, all you who are His faithful ones; / Jehovah guards the trustworthy, / And recompenses abundantly / Him who acts haughtily. Compare
31:24Be strong, and let your heart be encouraged, / All you who hope in Jehovah. Compare
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32:1Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven; / Whose sin is covered. Compare
32:2Blessed is the man to whom / Jehovah does not impute iniquity / And in whose spirit there is no deceit. Compare
32:3When I kept silent, my bones wasted away / Through my groaning all day long. Compare
32:4For day and night Your hand / Was heavy upon me; / My life sap was dried up / As in the drought of summer. Selah. Compare
32:5I acknowledged my sin to You, / And I did not cover my iniquity. / I said, I will confess my transgressions to Jehovah. / Then You forgave the iniquity of my sin. Selah. Compare
32:6Because of this let everyone who is faithful / Pray to You at a time when You may be found; / Surely when great waters overflow, / They will not reach him. Compare
32:7You are my hiding place; / You preserve me from trouble; / You surround me with the ringing shouts of deliverance. Selah. Compare
32:8I will instruct you and teach you concerning the way you should go; / I will counsel you; my eye is upon you. Compare
32:9Do not be like a horse or like a mule, without understanding; / Whose trappings consist of bit and bridle to restrain them, / Else they do not come near you. Compare
32:10Many are the sorrows that the wicked have; / But he who trusts in Jehovah is encompassed by lovingkindness. Compare
32:11Rejoice in Jehovah and exult, O righteous ones; / And give a ringing shout, all you who are upright in heart. Compare
33:1Rejoice in Jehovah, O righteous ones. / Praise is becoming to the upright. Compare
33:2Give thanks to Jehovah with the lyre; / With the harp of ten strings sing psalms to Him. Compare
33:3Sing Him a new song; / Play skillfully with a joyous shout. Compare
33:4For the word of Jehovah is right, / And all His work is done in faithfulness. Compare
33:5He loves righteousness and justice; / The earth is full of the lovingkindness of Jehovah. Compare
33:6By the word of Jehovah the heavens were made, / And all their host, by the breath of His mouth. Compare
33:7He gathers the water of the sea like a heap; / He puts the deep waters into storage places. Compare
33:8Let all the earth fear Jehovah; / Let all the inhabitants of the world stand in awe of Him. Compare
33:9For He spoke, and it was; / He commanded, and it stood. Compare
33:10Jehovah brings the counsel of the nations to nothing; / He frustrates the intentions of the peoples. Compare
33:11The counsel of Jehovah stands forever; / The intentions of His heart stand from generation to generation. Compare
33:12Blessed is the nation whose God is Jehovah, / The people whom He has chosen as His own possession. Compare
33:13Jehovah looks from heaven; / He sees all the sons of men. Compare
33:14From the site of His habitation He gazes / At all the inhabitants of the earth, Compare
33:15He who fashions the hearts of them all, / He who discerns all their works. Compare
33:16No king is saved by a great army; / A mighty man is not delivered by great strength. Compare
33:17A horse is a vain thing for salvation, / And it cannot deliver by its great power. Compare
33:18Behold, the eye of Jehovah is upon those who fear Him, / Upon those who hope in His lovingkindness, Compare
33:19To deliver their soul from death / And to preserve them alive in famine. Compare
33:20Our soul waits on Jehovah; / He is our help and our shield; Compare
33:21For in Him our heart rejoices, / Because in His holy name we trust. Compare
33:22May Your lovingkindness, O Jehovah, be upon us, / Even as we have hoped in You. Compare

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