Psalms 31:8-18

1. 8 And hast not shut me up into the hand of the enemy: thou hast set my feet in a large room.

2. 9 Have mercy upon me, O LORD, for I am in trouble: mine eye is consumed with grief, yea, my soul and my belly.

3. 10 For my life is spent with grief, and my years with sighing: my strength faileth because of mine iniquity, and my bones are consumed.

4. 11 I 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.

5. 12 I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind: I am like a broken vessel.

6. 13 For 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.

7. 14 But I trusted in thee, O LORD: I said, Thou art my God.

8. 15 My times are in thy hand: deliver me from the hand of mine enemies, and from them that persecute me.

9. 16 Make thy face to shine upon thy servant: save me for thy mercies' sake.

10. 17 Let 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.

11. 18 Let the lying lips be put to silence; which speak grievous things proudly and contemptuously against the righteous.

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