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Does this psalm differ from what you were expecting? Don't be confused. There are two systems for arranging the psalms: the Septuagint and the Masoretic. We use the Septuagint system here. In the Masoretic system, which is used in most modern Bible translations, this psalm is called Psalm 31, and the previous psalm is known as Psalm 30.
1 Unto the end, a psalm for David, in an ecstasy.
2 In thee, O Lord, have I hoped, let me never be confounded: deliver me in thy justice.
3 Bow down thy ear to me: make haste to deliver me. Be thou unto me a God, a protector, and a house of refuge, to save me.
4 For thou art my strength and my refuge; and for thy name's sake thou wilt lead me, and nourish me.
5 Thou wilt bring me out of this snare, which they have hidden for me: for thou art my protector.
6 Into thy hands I commend my spirit: thou hast redeemed me, O Lord, the God of truth.
7 Thou hast hated them that regard vanities, to no purpose. But I have hoped in the Lord:
8 I will be glad and rejoice in thy mercy. For thou hast regarded my humility, thou hast saved my soul out of distresses.
9 And thou hast not shut me up in the hands of the enemy: thou hast set my feet in a spacious place.
10 Have mercy on me, O Lord, for I am afflicted: my eye is troubled with wrath, my soul, and my belly:
11 For my life is wasted with grief: and my years in sighs. My strength is weakened through poverty and my bones are disturbed.
12 I am become a reproach among all my enemies, and very much to my neighbours; and a fear to my acquaintance. They that saw me without fled from me.
13 I am forgotten as one dead from the heart. I am become as a vessel that is destroyed.
14 For I have heard the blame of many that dwell round about. While they assembled together against me, they consulted to take away my life.
15 But I have put my trust in thee, O Lord: I said: Thou art my God.
16 My lots are in thy hands. Deliver me out of the hands of my enemies; and from them that persecute me.
17 Make thy face to shine upon thy servant; save me in thy mercy.
18 Let me not be confounded, O Lord, for I have called upon thee. Let the wicked be ashamed, and be brought down to hell.
19 Let deceitful lips be made dumb. Which speak iniquity against the just, with pride and abuse.
20 O how great is the multitude of thy sweetness, O Lord, which thou hast hidden for them that fear thee! Which thou hast wrought for them that hope in thee, in the sight of the sons of men.
21 Thou shalt hide them in the secret of thy face, from the disturbance of men. Thou shalt protect them in thy tabernacle from the contradiction of tongues.
22 Blessed be the Lord, for he hath shown his wonderful mercy to me in a fortified city.
23 But I said in the excess of my mind: I am cast away from before thy eyes. Therefore thou hast heard the voice of my prayer, when I cried to thee.
24 O love the Lord, all ye his saints: for the Lord will require truth, and will repay them abundantly that act proudly.
25 Do ye manfully, and let your heart be strengthened, all ye that hope in the Lord.
Old Testament first published 1609 by the English College at Douay
New Testament first published 1582 by the English College at Rheims
Revised and Annotated 1749 by Bishop Richard Challoner
Imprimatur. +James Cardinal Gibbons, Archbishop of Baltimore, September 1, 1899
1 In finem. Psalmus David, pro extasi.
2 In te, Domine, speravi;
non confundar in æternum:
in justitia tua libera me.
3 Inclina ad me aurem tuam;
accelera ut eruas me.
Esto mihi in Deum protectorem,
et in domum refugii, ut salvum me facias:
4 quoniam fortitudo mea et refugium meum es tu;
et propter nomen tuum deduces me et enutries me.
5 Educes me de laqueo hoc quem absconderunt mihi,
quoniam tu es protector meus.
6 In manus tuas commendo spiritum meum;
redemisti me, Domine Deus veritatis.
7 Odisti observantes vanitates supervacue;
ego autem in Domino speravi.
8 Exsultabo, et lætabor in misericordia tua,
quoniam respexisti humilitatem meam;
salvasti de necessitatibus animam meam.
9 Nec conclusisti me in manibus inimici:
statuisti in loco spatioso pedes meos.
10 Miserere mei, Domine, quoniam tribulor;
conturbatus est in ira oculus meus, anima mea, et venter meus.
11 Quoniam defecit in dolore vita mea,
et anni mei in gemitibus.
Infirmata est in paupertate virtus mea,
et ossa mea conturbata sunt.
12 Super omnes inimicos meos factus sum opprobrium,
et vicinis meis valde, et timor notis meis;
qui videbant me foras fugerunt a me.
13 Oblivioni datus sum, tamquam mortuus a corde;
factus sum tamquam vas perditum:
14 quoniam audivi vituperationem multorum commorantium in circuitu.
In eo dum convenirent simul adversum me,
accipere animam meam consiliati sunt.
15 Ego autem in te speravi, Domine;
dixi: Deus meus es tu;
16 in manibus tuis sortes meæ:
eripe me de manu inimicorum meorum, et a persequentibus me.
17 Illustra faciem tuam super servum tuum;
salvum me fac in misericordia tua.
18 Domine, non confundar, quoniam invocavi te.
Erubescant impii, et deducantur in infernum;
19 muta fiant labia dolosa,
quæ loquuntur adversus justum iniquitatem,
in superbia, et in abusione.
20 Quam magna multitudo dulcedinis tuæ, Domine,
quam abscondisti timentibus te;
perfecisti eis qui sperant in te in conspectu filiorum hominum!
21 Abscondes eos in abscondito faciei tuæ a conturbatione hominum;
proteges eos in tabernaculo tuo, a contradictione linguarum.
22 Benedictus Dominus,
quoniam mirificavit misericordiam suam mihi in civitate munita.
23 Ego autem dixi in excessu mentis meæ:
Projectus sum a facie oculorum tuorum:
ideo exaudisti vocem orationis meæ, dum clamarem ad te.
24 Diligite Dominum, omnes sancti ejus,
quoniam veritatem requiret Dominus,
et retribuet abundanter facientibus superbiam.
25 Viriliter agite, et confortetur cor vestrum,
omnes qui speratis in Domino.
Transcribed as part of the Clementine Vulgate Project
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