Psalm 31

Into Your Hand I Commit My Spirit

To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David.

1  In you, O Lord, do I take refuge;
let me never be put to shame;
in your righteousness deliver me!
2  Incline your ear to me;
rescue me speedily!
Be a rock of refuge for me,
a strong fortress to save me!

3  For you are my rock and my fortress;
and for your name's sake you lead me and guide me;
4  you take me out of the net they have hidden for me,
for you are my refuge.
5  Into your hand I commit my spirit;
you have redeemed me, O Lord, faithful God.

6  I hatet those who pay regard to worthless idols,
but I trust in the Lord.
7  I will rejoice and be glad in your steadfast love,
because you have seen my affliction;
you have known the distress of my soul,
8  and you have not delivered me into the hand of the enemy;
you have set my feet in a broad place.

9  Be gracious to me, O Lord, for I am in distress;
my eye is wasted from grief;
my soul and my body also.
10  For my life is spent with sorrow,
and my years with sighing;
my strength fails because of my iniquity,
and my bones waste away.

11  Because of all my adversaries I have become a reproach,
especially to my neighbors,
and an object of dread to my acquaintances;
those who see me in the street flee from me.
12  I have been forgotten like one who is dead;
I have become like a broken vessel.
13  For I hear the whispering of many—
terror on every side!—
as they scheme together against me,
as they plot to take my life.

14  But I trust in you, O Lord;
I say, "You are my God."
15  My times are in your hand;
rescue me from the hand of my enemies and from my persecutors!
16  Make your face shine on your servant;
save me in your steadfast love!
17  O Lord, let me not be put to shame,
for I call upon you;
let the wicked be put to shame;
let them go silently to Sheol.
18  Let the lying lips be mute,
which speak insolently against the righteous
in pride and contempt.

19  Oh, how abundant is your goodness,
which you have stored up for those who fear you
and worked for those who take refuge in you,
in the sight of the children of mankind!
20  In the cover of your presence you hide them
from the plots of men;
you store them in your shelter
from the strife of tongues.

21  Blessed be the Lord,
for he has wondrously shown his steadfast love to me
when I was in a besieged city.
22  I had said in my alarm,t
"I am cut off from your sight."
But you heard the voice of my pleas for mercy
when I cried to you for help.

23  Love the Lord, all you his saints!
The Lord preserves the faithful
but abundantly repays the one who acts in pride.
24  Be strong, and let your heart take courage,
all you who wait for the Lord!

Psalm 32

Blessed Are the Forgiven

A Maskil of David.

1  Blessed is the one whose transgression is forgiven,
whose sin is covered.
2  Blessed is the man against whom the Lord counts no iniquity,
and in whose spirit there is no deceit.

3  For when I kept silent, my bones wasted away
through my groaning all day long.
4  For day and night your hand was heavy upon me;
my strength was dried upt as by the heat of summer. Selah

5  I acknowledged my sin to you,
and I did not cover my iniquity;
I said, "I will confess my transgressions to the Lord,"
and you forgave the iniquity of my sin. Selah

6  Therefore let everyone who is godly
offer prayer to you at a time when you may be found;
surely in the rush of great waters,
they shall not reach him.
7  You are a hiding place for me;
you preserve me from trouble;
you surround me with shouts of deliverance. Selah

8  I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go;
I will counsel you with my eye upon you.
9  Be not like a horse or a mule, without understanding,
which must be curbed with bit and bridle,
or it will not stay near you.

10  Many are the sorrows of the wicked,
but steadfast love surrounds the one who trusts in the Lord.
11  Be glad in the Lord, and rejoice, O righteous,
and shout for joy, all you upright in heart!

Psalm 33

The Steadfast Love of the Lord

1  Shout for joy in the Lord, O you righteous!
Praise befits the upright.
2  Give thanks to the Lord with the lyre;
make melody to him with the harp of ten strings!
3  Sing to him a new song;
play skillfully on the strings, with loud shouts.

4  For the word of the Lord is upright,
and all his work is done in faithfulness.
5  He loves righteousness and justice;
the earth is full of the steadfast love of the Lord.

6  By the word of the Lord the heavens were made,
and by the breath of his mouth all their host.
7  He gathers the waters of the sea as a heap;
he puts the deeps in storehouses.

8  Let all the earth fear the Lord;
let all the inhabitants of the world stand in awe of him!
9  For he spoke, and it came to be;
he commanded, and it stood firm.

10  The Lord brings the counsel of the nations to nothing;
he frustrates the plans of the peoples.
11  The counsel of the Lord stands forever,
the plans of his heart to all generations.
12  Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord,
the people whom he has chosen as his heritage!

13  The Lord looks down from heaven;
he sees all the children of man;
14  from where he sits enthroned he looks out
on all the inhabitants of the earth,
15  he who fashions the hearts of them all
and observes all their deeds.
16  The king is not saved by his great army;
a warrior is not delivered by his great strength.
17  The war horse is a false hope for salvation,
and by its great might it cannot rescue.

18  Behold, the eye of the Lord is on those who fear him,
on those who hope in his steadfast love,
19  that he may deliver their soul from death
and keep them alive in famine.

20  Our soul waits for the Lord;
he is our help and our shield.
21  For our heart is glad in him,
because we trust in his holy name.
22  Let your steadfast love, O Lord, be upon us,
even as we hope in you.