| 31:1
| In thee, O LORD, do I put my trust; let me never be ashamed: deliver me
in thy righteousness.
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| 31:2
| Bow down thine ear to me; deliver me speedily: be thou my strong rock,
for an house of defence to save me.
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| 31:3
| For thou art my rock and my fortress; therefore for thy name's sake lead
me, and guide me.
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| 31:4
| Pull me out of the net that they have laid privily for me: for thou art
my strength.
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| 31:5
| Into thine hand I commit my spirit: thou hast redeemed me, O LORD God of
truth.
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| 31:6
| I have hated them that regard lying vanities: but I trust in the LORD.
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| 31:7
| I will be glad and rejoice in thy mercy: for thou hast considered my
trouble; thou hast known my soul in adversities;
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| 31:8
| And hast not shut me up into the hand of the enemy: thou hast set my
feet in a large room.
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| 31:9
| Have mercy upon me, O LORD, for I am in trouble: mine eye is consumed
with grief, yea, my soul and my belly.
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| 31:10
| For my life is spent with grief, and my years with sighing: my strength
faileth because of mine iniquity, and my bones are consumed.
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| 31:11
| I was a reproach among all mine enemies, but especially among my
neighbours, and a fear to mine acquaintance: they that did see me without
fled from me.
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| 31:12
| I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind: I am like a broken vessel.
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| 31:13
| For I have heard the slander of many: fear was on every side: while they
took counsel together against me, they devised to take away my life.
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| 31:14
| But I trusted in thee, O LORD: I said, Thou art my God.
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| 31:15
| My times are in thy hand: deliver me from the hand of mine enemies, and
from them that persecute me.
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| 31:16
| Make thy face to shine upon thy servant: save me for thy mercies' sake.
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| 31:17
| Let me not be ashamed, O LORD; for I have called upon thee: let the
wicked be ashamed, and let them be silent in the grave.
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| 31:18
| Let the lying lips be put to silence; which speak grievous things
proudly and contemptuously against the righteous.
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| 31:19
| Oh how great is thy goodness, which thou hast laid up for them that fear
thee; which thou hast wrought for them that trust in thee before the sons
of men!
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| 31:20
| Thou shalt hide them in the secret of thy presence from the pride of
man: thou shalt keep them secretly in a pavilion from the strife of
tongues.
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| 31:21
| Blessed be the LORD: for he hath shewed me his marvellous kindness in a
strong city.
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| 31:22
| For I said in my haste, I am cut off from before thine eyes:
nevertheless thou heardest the voice of my supplications when I cried unto
thee.
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| 31:23
| O love the LORD, all ye his saints: for the LORD preserveth the
faithful, and plentifully rewardeth the proud doer.
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| 31:24
| Be of good courage, and he shall strengthen your heart, all ye that hope
in the LORD.
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