Psalms 31
1+ 31:1 Rom 4:7-8 Blessed are they whose transgressions are forgiven, and who sins are covered. 1
2Blessed is the man to whom the Lord will not impute sin, and whose mouth there is no guile. 1
3Because I kept silence, my bones waxed old, from my crying all the day. 1
4For day and night your hand was heavy upon me: I became thoroughly miserable while a + 31:4 See Heb. thorn was fastened in me. Pause. 1
5I acknowledged my sin, and hid not my iniquity: I said, I will confess my iniquity to the Lord against myself; and you forgave the ungodliness of my heart. Pause. 1
6Therefore shall every holy one pray to you in a fit time: only in the deluge of many waters they shall not come near to him. 1
7You are my refuge from the affliction that encompasses me; my joy, to deliver me from them that have compassed me. Pause. 1
8I will instruct you and guide you in this way wherein you shall go: I will fix my eyes upon you. 1
9Be you⌃ not as horse and mule, which have no understanding; + 31:9 See Alex. ἄγξεις but you must constrain their jaws with bit and curb, lest they should come near to you. 1
10Many are the scourges of the sinner: but him that hopes in the Lord mercy shall compass about. 1
11Be glad in the Lord, and exult, you⌃ righteous: and glory, all you⌃ that are upright in heart.