Psalms 30
1O Lord, I have hoped in you; let me never be ashamed: deliver me in your righteousness and rescue me. 1
2Incline your ear to me; make haste to rescue me: be you to me for a protecting God, and for a house of refuge to save me. 1
3For you are my strength and my refuge; and you shall guide me for your name's sake, and maintain me. 1
4You shall bring me out of the snare which they have hidden for me; for you, O Lord, are my defender. 1
5Into your hands I will commit my spirit: you have redeemed me, O Lord God of truth. 1
6You have hated them that idly persist in vanities: but I have hoped in the Lord. 1
7I will exult and be glad in your mercy: for you have looked upon my affliction; you have saved my soul from distresses. 1
8And you have not shut me up into the hands of the enemy: you have set my feet in a wide place. 1
9Pity me, O Lord, for I am afflicted: my eye is troubled with indignation, my soul and by belly. 1
10For my life is spent with grief, and my years with groanings: my strength has been weakened through poverty, and my bones are troubled. 1
11I became a reproach amongst all my enemies, but exceedingly so to my neighbours, and a fear to my acquaintance: they that saw me without fled from me. 1
12I have been forgotten as a dead man out of mind: I am become as a broken vessel. 1
13For I heard the slander of many that lived round about: when they were gathered together against me, they took counsel to take my life. 1
14But I hoped in you, O Lord: I said, You are my God. 1
15My lots are in your hands: deliver me from the hand of my enemies, 1
16and from them that persecute me. Make your face to shine upon your servant: save me in your mercy. 1
17O Lord, let me not be ashamed, for I have called upon you: let the ungodly be ashamed, and brought down to Hades. 1
18Let the deceitful lips become dumb, which speak iniquity against the righteous with pride and scorn. 1
19How abundant is the multitude of your goodness, O Lord, which you have laid up for them that fear you! you have wrought it out for them that hope on you, in the presence of the sons of men. 1
20You will hide them in the secret of your presence from the vexation of man: you will screen them in a tabernacle from the contradiction of tongues. 1
21Blessed be the Lord: for he has magnified his mercy in a fortified city. 1
22But I said in my extreme fear, I am cast out from the sight of your eyes: therefore you did listen, O Lord, to the voice of my supplication when I cried to you. 1
23Love the Lord, all you⌃ his saints: for the Lord seeks for truth, and renders a reward to them that deal very proudly. 1
24Be of good courage, and let your heart be strengthened, all you⌃ that hope in the Lord.