Psalms 30-32

Psalm 30

¹A Psalm. A Song at the blessing of the House. Of David. I will give you praise and honour, O Lord, because through you I have been lifted up; you have not given my haters cause to be glad over me.

²O Lord my God, I sent up my cry to you, and you have made me well.

³O Lord, you have made my soul come again from the underworld: you have given me life and kept me from going down among the dead.

⁴Make songs to the Lord, O you saints of his, and give praise to his holy name.

⁵For his wrath is only for a minute; in his grace there is life; weeping may be for a night, but joy comes in the morning.

⁶When things went well for me I said, I will never be moved.

⁷Lord, by your grace you have kept my mountain strong: when your face was turned from me I was troubled.

⁸My voice went up to you, O Lord; I made my prayer to the Lord.

⁹What profit is there in my blood if I go down into the underworld? will the dust give you praise, or be a witness to your help?

¹⁰Give ear to me, O Lord, and have mercy on me: Lord, be my helper.

¹¹By you my sorrow is turned into dancing; you have taken away my clothing of grief, and given me robes of joy;

¹²So that my glory may make songs of praise to you and not be quiet. O Lord my God, I will give you praise for ever.

Psalm 31

¹To the chief music-maker. A Psalm. Of David. In you, O Lord, have I put my hope; let me never be shamed; keep me safe in your righteousness.

²Let your ear be turned to me; take me quickly out of danger; be my strong Rock, my place of strength where I may be safe.

³For you are my Rock and my strong tower; go in front of me and be my guide, because of your name.

⁴Take me out of the net which they have put ready for me secretly; for you are my strength.

⁵Into your hands I give my spirit; you are my saviour, O Lord God for ever true.

⁶I am full of hate for those who go after false gods; but my hope is in the Lord.

⁷I will be glad and have delight in your mercy; because you have seen my trouble; you have had pity on my soul in its sorrows;

⁸And you have not given me into the hand of my hater; you have put my feet in a wide place.

⁹Have mercy on me, O Lord, for I am in trouble; my eyes are wasted with grief, I am wasted in soul and body.

¹⁰My life goes on in sorrow, and my years in weeping; my strength is almost gone because of my sin, and my bones are wasted away.

¹¹Because of all those who are against me, I have become a word of shame to my neighbours; a cause of shaking the head and a fear to my friends: those who saw me in the street went in flight from me.

¹²I have gone from men's minds and memory like a dead man; I am like a broken vessel.

¹³False statements against me have come to my ears; fear was on every side: they were talking together against me, designing to take away my life.

¹⁴But I had faith in you, O Lord; I said, You are my God.

¹⁵The chances of my life are in your hand; take me out of the hands of my haters, and of those who go after me.

¹⁶Let your servant see the light of your face; in your mercy be my saviour.

¹⁷Let me not be shamed, O Lord, for I have made my prayer to you; let the sinners be shamed, and let their mouths be shut in the underworld.

¹⁸Let the false lips be shut, which say evil against the upright, looking down on him in their pride.

¹⁹O how great is your grace, which you have put in store for your worshippers, and which you have made clear to those who had faith in you, before the sons of men!

²⁰You will keep them safe in your house from the designs of man; in the secret of your tent will you keep them from angry tongues.

²¹May the Lord be praised, because he has made clear to me the wonder of his grace in a strong town.

²²And as for me, I said in my fear, I am cut off from before your eyes; but you gave ear to the voice of my prayer, when my cry went up to you.

²³O have love for the Lord, all you his saints; for the Lord keeps safe from danger all those who are true to him, and gives the workers of pride their right reward.

²⁴Put away fear and let your heart be strong, all you whose hope is in the Lord.

Psalm 32

¹Of David. Maschil. Happy is he who has forgiveness for his wrongdoing, and whose sin is covered.

²Happy is the man in whom the Lord sees no evil, and in whose spirit there is no deceit.

³When I kept my mouth shut, my bones were wasted, because of my crying all through the day.

⁴For the weight of your hand was on me day and night; my body became dry like the earth in summer. (Selah.)

⁵I made my wrongdoing clear to you, and did not keep back my sin. I said, I will put it all before the Lord; and you took away my wrongdoing and my sin. (Selah.)

⁶For this cause let every saint make his prayer to you at a time when you are near: then the overflowing of the great waters will not overtake him.

⁷You are my safe and secret place; you will keep me from trouble; you will put songs of salvation on the lips of those who are round me. (Selah.)

⁸I will give you knowledge, teaching you the way to go; my eye will be your guide.

⁹Do not be like the horse or the ass, without sense; ...

¹⁰The sinner will be full of trouble; but mercy will be round the man who has faith in the Lord.

¹¹Be glad in the Lord with joy, you upright men; give cries of joy, all you whose hearts are true.