August 31, 2025, Psalm 31:1-24
August 31, 2025, Psalm 31:1-24
31 In you,
O Lord, do I take
refuge;
let me
never be put to shame;
in
your righteousness deliver me!
2 Incline your ear to me;
rescue
me speedily!
Be a rock of refuge for me,
a strong
fortress to save me!
3 For you
are my rock and my fortress;
and for
your name's sake you lead me and guide me;
4 you take me out of the net they have hidden
for me,
for you
are my refuge.
5 Into your hand I commit my spirit;
you have
redeemed me, O Lord, faithful
God.
6 I hate those
who pay regard to worthless idols,
but I
trust in the Lord.
7 I will rejoice and be glad in your steadfast love,
because
you have seen my affliction;
you
have known the distress of my soul,
8 and you have not delivered me into the hand of
the enemy;
you have
set my feet in a broad place.
9 Be
gracious to me, O Lord, for I
am in distress;
my eye
is wasted from grief;
my soul
and my body also.
10 For my life is spent with sorrow,
and my
years with sighing;
my strength fails because of my iniquity,
and my
bones waste away.
11 Because
of all my adversaries I have become a reproach,
especially
to my neighbors,
and an object of dread to my acquaintances;
those
who see me in the street flee from me.
12 I have been forgotten like one who is dead;
I have
become like a broken vessel.
13 For I hear the whispering of many—
terror
on every side!—
as they scheme together against me,
as they
plot to take my life.
14 But
I trust in you, O Lord;
I say,
“You are my God.”
15 My times are in your hand;
rescue
me from the hand of my enemies and from my persecutors!
16 Make your face shine on your servant;
save me
in your steadfast love!
17 O Lord, let
me not be put to shame,
for I
call upon you;
let the wicked be put to shame;
let them
go silently to Sheol.
18 Let the lying lips be mute,
which speak insolently
against the righteous
in pride
and contempt.
19 Oh, how
abundant is your goodness,
which
you have stored up for those who fear you
and worked for those who take refuge in you,
in the
sight of the children of mankind!
20 In the cover of your presence you hide them
from the
plots of men;
you store them in your shelter
from the
strife of tongues.
21 Blessed
be the Lord,
for he
has wondrously shown his steadfast love to me
when I
was in a besieged city.
22 I had said in my alarm,
“I
am cut off from your sight.”
But you heard the voice of my pleas for mercy
when I
cried to you for help.
23 Love
the Lord, all you
his saints!
The Lord preserves the faithful
but
abundantly repays the one who acts in pride.
24 Be strong, and let your heart take courage,
all you
who wait for the Lord!
Verse
15a tells us “My times are in your hand;”.
The
course your life takes depends on God’s power. How safe do you feel in the
hands of God?
Debbie
Walker
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