Psalm 31 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

¹ And thou hast not shut me up in the hands of the enemy: thou hast set my feet in a spacious place.

² Have mercy on me, O Lord, for I am afflicted: my eye is troubled with wrath, my soul, and my belly:

³ 0 For my life is wasted with grief: and my years in sighs. My strength is weakened through poverty and my bones are disturbed.

⁴ 1 I am become a reproach among all my enemies, and very much to my neighbours; and a fear to my acquaintance. They that saw me without fled from me.

⁵ 2 I am forgotten as one dead from the heart. I am become as a vessel that is destroyed.

⁶ 3 For I have heard the blame of many that dwell round about. While they assembled together against me, they consulted to take away my life.

⁷ 4 But I have put my trust in thee, O Lord: I said: Thou art my God.

⁸ 5 My lots are in thy hands. Deliver me out of the hands of my enemies; and from them that persecute me.

⁹ 6 Make thy face to shine upon thy servant; save me in thy mercy.

¹⁰ 7 Let me not be confounded, O Lord, for I have called upon thee. Let the wicked be ashamed, and be brought down to hell.

¹¹ 8 Let deceitful lips be made dumb. Which speak iniquity against the just, with pride and abuse.

¹² 9 O how great is the multitude of thy sweetness, O Lord, which thou hast hidden for them that fear thee! Which thou hast wrought for them that hope in thee, in the sight of the sons of men.

¹³ 0 Thou shalt hide them in the secret of thy face, from the disturbance of men. Thou shalt protect them in thy tabernacle from the contradiction of tongues.

¹⁴ 1 Blessed be the Lord, for he hath shewn his wonderful mercy to me in a fortified city.

¹⁵ 2 But I said in the excess of my mind: I am cast away from before thy eyes. Therefore thou hast heard the voice of my prayer, when I cried to thee.

¹⁶ 3 O love the Lord, all ye his saints: for the Lord will require truth, and will repay them abundantly that act proudly.

¹⁷ 4 Do ye manfully, and let your heart be strengthened, all ye that hope in the Lord.

¹⁸ To David himself, understanding. Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven, and whose sins are covered.

¹⁹ Blessed is the man to whom the Lord hath not imputed sin, and in whose spirit there is no guile.

²⁰ Because I was silent my bones grew old; whilst I cried out all the day long.

²¹ For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me: I am turned in my anguish, whilst the thorn is fastened.

²² I have acknowledged my sin to thee, and my injustice I have not concealed. I said I will confess against myself my injustice to the Lord: and thou hast forgiven the wickedness of my sin.

²³ For this shall every one that is holy pray to thee in a seasonable time. And yet in a flood of many waters, they shall not come nigh unto him.

²⁴ Thou art my refuge from the trouble which hath encompassed me: my joy, deliver me from them that surround me.