Psalm 31:1–14

Psalm 31:1–146 matched frames

Read down to the center, where the pattern turns; then rise back out through its mirror.

A 1 In thee, O LORD, do I put my trust; let me never be ashamed: deliver me in thy righteousness.
- B 2 Bow down thine ear to me; deliver me speedily: be thou my strong rock, for an house of defence to save me.
  - C 3 For thou art my rock and my fortress; therefore for thy name's sake lead me, and guide me.
    - D 4 Pull me out of the net that they have laid privily for me: for thou art my strength.
    - D' 5 Into thine hand I commit my spirit: thou hast redeemed me, O LORD God of truth.
A 6 I have hated them that regard lying vanities: but I trust in the LORD.
- B 7 I will be glad and rejoice in thy mercy: for thou hast considered my trouble; thou hast known my soul in adversities;
  - C 8 And hast not shut me up into the hand of the enemy: thou hast set my feet in a large room.
    - D 9 Have mercy upon me, O LORD, for I am in trouble: mine eye is consumed with grief, yea, my soul and my belly.
      - E 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.
        F 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.
        F' 12 I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind: I am like a broken vessel.
      - E' 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.
    - D' 14 But I trusted in thee, O LORD: I said, Thou art my God.