31:1 I have hoped in you, Lord Jehovah; I shall never be disappointed; deliver me in your righteousness!
31:2 Incline your ear to me and answer me quickly; be a helper to me, Oh God, and the house of my refuge, and save me!
31:3 Because you are my strength and the house of my refuge, comfort me, Lord Jehovah, for your Name's sake!
31:4 And take me from this net they have hid for me, because you are my protector.
31:5 To you I have committed my spirit, and you have saved me, Lord Jehovah, God of truth!
31:6 You have hated those who observe empty worship, and I have hoped in you, Lord Jehovah.
31:7 I shall exult and rejoice in your kindness, for you have seen my affliction, and you have known the affliction of my soul.
31:8 And you have not delivered me into the hand of my enemies; you have set my feet in an expanse.
31:9 Show mercy upon me, Lord Jehovah, because I have grief; my eye is troubled with grief; my soul and my belly.
31:10 Because my life is consumed in misery and my years in sighings; my power is weakened in poverty and my bones are troubled.
31:11 I have been the reproach of all my enemies, to my neighbors, and a dread to those who know me, and those who see me in the street have been turning away from me.
31:12 I am forgotten, like one dead to the heart, and I have been like a lost item.
31:13 Because I heard the scheme of many when they counseled against me together and they conceived to take my life.
31:14 But I have trusted upon you, Lord Jehovah, and I have said, “You are my God, Lord Jehovah.”
31:15 And the times are in your hands; save me from my enemies and from those who persecute me.
31:16 Shine your face upon your Servant and save me in your kindness.
31:17 Lord Jehovah, I shall not be ashamed that I called you; the wicked shall be ashamed and they shall descend into Sheol.
31:18 And the lips of the evil shall be stopped, for they speak lies and insanity against the righteous.
31:19 How great is your kindness which you keep for your worshipers, for them that hope in you before the children of men!
31:20 You will hide them in the shelter of your presence; from the trouble of the children of men you will hide them.
31:21 Blessed is Lord Jehovah who has chosen The Elect Ones for himself in the strong city.
31:22 I have said in my haste, “I am destroyed from before your eyes”, and you heard the voice of my prayer when I cried out to you.
31:23 Love Lord Jehovah, his righteous ones; Lord Jehovah keeps the faithful and he pays to the evil their works.
31:24 Be strong, and your hearts will be strengthened, all who hope in Lord Jehovah.
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