Psalm 31 - Evangelical Heritage Version - 2021（EHV）

Into Your Hands I Commit My SpiritFor the choir director. A psalm by David.A Declaration of Confidence

1In you, Lord, I have taken refuge.

Petition

Let me never be put to shame.

In your righteousness deliver me.

2Turn your ear toward me.

Hurry! Rescue me!

Be a rock where I take refuge,

a fortified place that saves me.

The Basis for Confidence

3Yes, you are my rocky cliff and my stronghold.

For the sake of your name you will lead me and guide me.

4You will pull me out of the net that they hid for me,

because you are my refuge.

5Into your hand I commit my spirit.

You have redeemed me, O Lord, the God of truth.

6I hate those who keep worthless idols,

but I trust in the Lord.

7I will be glad and rejoice in your mercy,

because you saw my affliction.

You knew the distress of my soul.

8You have not left me in the hand of the enemy.

You have made my feet stand in a wide-open space.

A Prayer for Delivery

9Be merciful to me, Lord, for I am in distress.

My eye grows weak with sorrow

—my soul and my body too.

10Yes, my life is consumed by grief,

and my years by groaning.

My strength fails because of my guilt,

and my bones grow weak.

11Because of all my foes,

I am a disgrace, especially to my neighbors.

I am dreaded by those who know me.

Those who see me on the street flee from me.

12I have been forgotten like a dead man, gone from memory.

I have become like a broken pot.

13Yes, I hear the slander of many.

There is terror on every side.

When they conspire together against me,

they plot to take my life.

Confident Petition

14But I—I trust in you, O Lord.

I say, “You are my God.”

15My times are in your hand.

Deliver me from the hand of my enemies

and from those who pursue me.

16Let your face shine on your servant.

Save me in your mercy.

17Do not allow me to be put to shame, O Lord,

because I have cried out to you.

But let the wicked be put to shame.

Let them be silent in the grave.

18Let lying lips be silenced,

those who speak against the righteous

impudently with pride and contempt.

Closing Praise

19How great is your goodness,

which you store up for those who fear you,

which you deliver for those who take refuge in you

in the presence of the people.

20You hide them in your presence from the schemes of man.

You conceal them in your shelter from accusing tongues.

21Blessed be the Lord,

because he made his mercy wonderful for me

when I was in a besieged city.

22In my alarm I said, “I am cut off from before your eyes!”

But you heard the sound of my cry for mercy

when I cried out to you.

23Love the Lord, all his favored ones!

The Lord preserves the faithful,

but he pays back in full the one who acts proudly.

24Be strong, and let your heart be firm,

all you who wait confidently for the Lord.