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Psalms 31

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1In thee, O LORD, do I put my trust; let me never be ashamed: deliver me in thy righteousness. ✦ 2Bow down thine ear to me; deliver me speedily: be thou my strong rock, for an house of defence to save me. ✦ 3For thou art my rock and my fortress; therefore for thy name’s sake lead me, and guide me. ✦ 4Pull me out of the net that they have laid privily for me: for thou art my strength. ✦ 5Into thine hand I commit my spirit: thou hast redeemed me, O LORD God of truth. ✦ 6I have hated them that regard lying vanities: but I trust in the LORD. ✦ 7I will be glad and rejoice in thy mercy: for thou hast considered my trouble; thou hast known my soul in adversities; ✦ 8And hast not shut me up into the hand of the enemy: thou hast set my feet in a large room. ✦ 9Have mercy upon me, O LORD, for I am in trouble: mine eye is consumed with grief, yea, my soul and my belly. ✦ 10For my life is spent with grief, and my years with sighing: my strength faileth because of mine iniquity, and my bones are consumed. ✦ 11I was a reproach among all mine enemies, but especially among my neighbours, and a fear to mine acquaintance: they that did see me without fled from me. ✦ 12I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind: I am like a broken vessel. ✦ 13For I have heard the slander of many: fear was on every side: while they took counsel together against me, they devised to take away my life. ✦ 14But I trusted in thee, O LORD: I said, Thou art my God. ✦ 15My times are in thy hand: deliver me from the hand of mine enemies, and from them that persecute me. ✦ 16Make thy face to shine upon thy servant: save me for thy mercies’ sake. ✦ 17Let me not be ashamed, O LORD; for I have called upon thee: let the wicked be ashamed, and let them be silent in the grave. ✦ 18Let the lying lips be put to silence; which speak grievous things proudly and contemptuously against the righteous. ✦ 19Oh how great is thy goodness, which thou hast laid up for them that fear thee; which thou hast wrought for them that trust in thee before the sons of men! ✦ 20Thou shalt hide them in the secret of thy presence from the pride of man: thou shalt keep them secretly in a pavilion from the strife of tongues. ✦ 21Blessed be the LORD: for he hath shewed me his marvellous kindness in a strong city. ✦ 22For I said in my haste, I am cut off from before thine eyes: nevertheless thou heardest the voice of my supplications when I cried unto thee. ✦ 23O love the LORD, all ye his saints: for the LORD preserveth the faithful, and plentifully rewardeth the proud doer. ✦ 24Be of good courage, and he shall strengthen your heart, all ye that hope in the LORD. ✦

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Where this chapter connects

Ps 71 ·9Ps 88 ·8Ps 25 ·7Ps 143 ·7Matt 26 ·6Isa 49 ·5Ps 6 ·5Ps 140 ·5

Christ at the center

The Psalms are Christ's own prayer book and a gallery of his portraits — the suffering one of Psalm 22, the risen Lord of Psalm 16, the priest-king of Psalm 110, the Son to whom the nations are given.

How Psalms 31 points to him is part of the one story that runs through all Scripture — meet Jesus at the heart of the web, or follow a trail that traces him from Genesis to Revelation.

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  • ★ Start hereAudioThrough the WordThrough the Word · ~10 min/chapter · Free · evangelical

    A clear ~10-minute audio teaching for every one of the Bible's 1,189 chapters — the most systematic free way to study chapter by chapter.

  • ★ Start hereCommentaryPsalms (Tyndale OT Commentaries)Derek Kidner · Paid · evangelical

    Concise, theologically rich, and wonderfully accessible — the best place to start on the Psalms.

Pastoral

  • SermonChuck Smith — C2000 SeriesChuck Smith · Free · evangelical

    Free verse-by-verse audio through the entire Bible from the founder of Calvary Chapel.

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  • VideoBibleProject — Psalms videosBibleProject · Lay · Free · evangelical

    Free animated overview and word-study videos for this book.

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  • CommentaryEnduring Word — Psalms 31David Guzik · Lay · Free · evangelical

    Readable, verse-by-verse exposition of the whole chapter.

  • CommentaryMatthew Henry on PsalmsMatthew Henry · Pastoral · Free · evangelical

    The beloved Puritan exposition of this whole book — warm, devotional, and verse by verse (free, CCEL).

  • ReferenceBlue Letter Bible — Psalms 31Blue Letter Bible · Seminary · Free

    Interlinear, lexicon, and study tools across the chapter.

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