Psalm 31:6–14

Psalm 31:6–145 matched frames1 pivot

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

A 6 I have hated them that regard lying vanities: but I TRUST in Yahweh.
- B 7 I will be glad and rejoice in thy mercy: for THOU HAST CONSIDERED my trouble;
  - C 7-8 THOU HAST KNOWN my soul in adversities; 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 Yahweh, for I AM IN TROUBLE:
      - E 9 mine eye IS CONSUMED with grief, yea, my soul and my belly.
        F 10 For my life is spent with grief, and my years with sighing:
      - E' 10 my strength faileth because of mine iniquity, and my bones ARE CONSUMED.
    - D' 11 I was a reproach among all mine ENEMIES,
  - C' 11 but especially among my neighbours, and a fear to mine ACQUAINTANCE:
- B' 11-12 THEY THAT DID SEE me without fled from me. I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind: I am like a broken vessel.
A' 13-14 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. But I TRUSTED in thee, O Yahweh: I said, Thou art my God.