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.

Psalms 30

¹I will extol thee, O Lord; for thou hast lifted me up, and hast not made my foes to rejoice over me.

²O Lord my God, I cried unto thee, and thou hast healed me.

³O Lord, thou hast brought up my soul from the grave: thou hast kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit.

⁴Sing unto the Lord, O ye saints of his, and give thanks at the remembrance of his holiness.

⁵For his anger endureth but a moment; in his favour is life: weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning.

⁶And in my prosperity I said, I shall never be moved.

⁷Lord, by thy favour thou hast made my mountain to stand strong: thou didst hide thy face, and I was troubled.

⁸I cried to thee, O Lord; and unto the Lord I made supplication.

⁹What profit is there in my blood, when I go down to the pit? Shall the dust praise thee? shall it declare thy truth?

¹⁰Hear, O Lord, and have mercy upon me: Lord, be thou my helper.

¹¹Thou hast turned for me my mourning into dancing: thou hast put off my sackcloth, and girded me with gladness;

¹²To the end that my glory may sing praise to thee, and not be silent. O Lord my God, I will give thanks unto thee for ever.