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Psalm 31

31 This is a note to the worship leader: is a psalm David.

1 Yahweh, I come to you to protect me.

Never allow them to defeat me, with the result that I would be ashamed.

Since you always do what is right and just,

please rescue me.

2 Respond to my prayers for help, and save me right now!

Be like a huge rock where I can flee for refuge,

and like a strong fortress in which my enemies cannot harm me.

3 Yes, you are like a huge rock and like a fortress where I can go to be safe.

For the sake of your reputation you guide me so that no harm comes to me.

4 You are the one who protects me,

so you will rescue me from the evil plans my enemies have secretly made to hurt me.

5 I put myself into your care.

You have rescued me.

Yahweh, you are faithful.

6 I hate those who worship useless idols,

but I trust in Yahweh.

7 I will be very glad because you faithfully love me.

You have noticed that I have suffered,

and have known the troubling things I have experienced.

8 You have not allowed my enemies to capture me;

instead, you brought me to a place where I was safe.

9 Yahweh, act kindly toward me

because I am distressed.

Because I cry so much that my eyes are tired,

and I am completely exhausted.

10 I have become very weak because I am so miserable;

my life is getting shorter.

I have become weak because of the sinful things that I have done.

I am totally exhausted.

11 All of my enemies make fun of me,

and my neighbors, especially, despise me.

My friends are afraid of me because they think that you, God, are punishing me.

When they see me on the streets, they run away.

12 People have forgotten me like they forget people who are dead.

I am as useless as a broken pot.

13 There are terrifying things all around me.

I hear people whispering things about me.

My enemies are making plans

to kill me.

14 But Yahweh, I trust in you.

I say confidently that you are the God I worship.

15 You control the events and circumstances of my life.

Save me from my enemies,

from those who pursue me.

16 Act kindly toward me

and rescue me because you always faithfully love me.

17 Yahweh, I call out to you,

so do not allow others to shame me.

I desire that you cause wicked people to be ashamed.

I desire that they soon die and go down to the place where the dead people are.

18 I desire that you will cause people who tell lies to be unable to speak.

Do that to people who arrogantly say disrespectful things about righteous people.

19 Many indeed are the good things which you have prepared for the people who revere you!

You do good things for those who go to you for protection.

Everyone sees you protect them.

20 You protect people who trust in you by being near to them and saving them from people who devise evil schemes to harm them.

You keep them safe from their enemies who accuse them.

21 Praise Yahweh!

When my enemies surrounded the city in which I was living,

he showed me in a wonderful way that he faithfully loves me.

22 I was alarmed and cried out, “I have been separated from Yahweh!”

But in fact you heard me and answered my cry for help.

23 You people who belong to Yahweh, love him!

Those who are loyal to him, he protects,

but those who are proud, he punishes them severely like they deserve to be punished.

24 You who confidently expect Yahweh to do great things for you,

be strong and be courageous!