Psalms 30

¹Unto the end. A Psalm of David according to an ecstasy

²In you, Lord, I have hoped; let me never be confounded. In your justice, deliver me

³Incline your ear to me. Hasten to rescue me. Be for me a protector God and a house of refuge, so as to accomplish my salvation

⁴For you are my strength and my refuge; and for the sake of your name, you will lead me and nourish me

⁵You will lead me out of this snare, which they have hidden for me. For you are my protector

⁶Into your hands, I commend my spirit. You have redeemed me, O Lord, God of truth

⁷You have hated those who practice emptiness to no purpose. But I have hoped in the Lord

⁸I will exult and rejoice in your mercy. For you have looked upon my humility; you have saved my soul from needfulness

⁹And you have not enclosed me in the hands of the enemy. You have set my feet in a spacious place

¹⁰Have mercy on me, Lord, for I am troubled. My eye has been disturbed by wrath, along with my soul and my gut

¹¹For my life has fallen into sorrow, and my years into sighing. My virtue has been weakened in poverty, and my bones have been disturbed

¹²I have become a disgrace among all my enemies, and even more so to my neighbors, and a dread to my acquaintances. Those who catch sight of me, flee away from me

¹³I have become forgotten, like one dead to the heart. I have become like a damaged utensil

¹⁴For I have heard the harsh criticism of many who linger in the area. While assembled together against me in that place, they deliberated on how to take away my life

¹⁵But I have hoped in you, O Lord. I said, “You are my God.

¹⁶My fate is in your hands. Rescue me from the hand of my enemies and from those who are persecuting me

¹⁷Shine your face upon your servant. Save me in your mercy

¹⁸Do not let me be confounded, Lord, for I have called upon you. Let the impious be ashamed and be drawn down into Hell

¹⁹May deceitful lips be silenced: those that speak iniquity against the just, in arrogance and in abusiveness

²⁰How great is the multitude of your sweetness, O Lord, which you keep hidden for those who fear you, which you have perfected for those who hope in you, in the sight of the sons of men

²¹You hide them in the concealment of your face, from the disturbance of men. You protect them in your tabernacle, from the contradiction of tongues

²²Blessed is the Lord. For he has shown his wonderful mercy to me, in a fortified city

²³But I said in the excess of my mind: “I have been cast away from the glance of your eyes.” And so, you heeded the voice of my prayer, while I was still crying out to you

²⁴Love the Lord, all you his saints. For the Lord will require truth, and he will abundantly repay those who act with arrogance

²⁵Act manfully, and let your heart be strengthened, all you who hope in the Lord