Psalms 30

¹Unto the end, the Psalm of David, for excess of mind.

²In thee o Lord have I hoped, let me not be confounded for ever: in thy justice deliver me.

³Incline thine ear to me, make haste to deliver me. Be unto me for a God protector: and for a house of refuge, that thou mayst save me.

⁴Because thou art my strength, and my refuge: and for thy name thou wilt conduct me, and wilt nourish me.

⁵Thou wilt bring me out of this snare, which they have hid for me: because thou art my protector.

⁶Into thy hands I commend my spirit: thou hast redeemed me, o Lord God of truth.

⁷Thou hast hated them that observe vanities, unprofitably. But I have hoped in our Lord:

⁸I shall rejoice and be joyful in thy mercy. Because thou hast respected my humility, thou hast saved my soul out of necessities.

⁹Neither hast thou shut me up in the hands of the enemy: thou hast set my feet in a large place.

¹⁰Have mercy upon me, o Lord, because I am in tribulation: mine eye is troubled for wrath, my soul, and my belly:

¹¹Because my life is decayed for sorrow: and my years for groanings. My strength is weakened for poverty; and my bones are troubled.

¹²Above all mine enemies I am made a reproach, both to my neighbours exceedingly: and a fear to my acquaintance. They that saw me, fled forth from me:

¹³I am forgotten, from the heart as one dead. I am made as a vessel destroyed:

¹⁴because I have heard the reprehension of many that abide round about: In that whilst, they assembled together against me, they consulted to take my soul.

¹⁵But I have hoped in thee. O Lord: I said, Thou art my God:

¹⁶my lots are in thy hands. Deliver me out of the hands of my enemies, and from them that persecute me.

¹⁷Illustrate thy face upon thy servant, save me in thy mercy:

¹⁸Lord let me not be confounded, because I have invocated thee. Let the impious be ashamed, and brought down into hell:

¹⁹let the deceitful lips be made mute. Which speak iniquity against the just, in pride and abuse.

²⁰How great is the multitude of thy sweetness, o Lord which thou hast hid for them that fear thee. Thou hast perfited it for them that hope in thee, in the sight of the children of men.

²¹Thou shalt hide them in the secret of thy face from the disturbance of men. Thou shall protect them in thy tabernacle from the contradiction of tongues.

²²Blessed be our Lord: because he hath made his mercy marvelous to me in the fenced city.

²³But I have said in the excess of my mind: I am cast away from the sight of thine eyes. Therefore thou hast heard the voice of my prayer, whilst I cried to thee.

²⁴Love our Lord all ye his Saints: because our Lord will require truth, & will repay them aboundantly that do proudly.

²⁵Do ye manfully, and let your heart take courage, all ye that hope in our Lord.