Psalms 31 from Scroll 4Q83 Psalmsa
22 As
for me, I said in my haste, I am cut off from before your eyes.
Nevertheless
you heard the voice of my petitions when I cried to you.
23 Oh
love Yahweh, all you his saints!
Yahweh
preserves
the faithful,
and
fully recompenses him who behaves arrogantly.
Psalms
31 from Scroll 4Q98 Psalmsq
23 Oh
love Yahweh, all you his saints!
Yahweh
preserves the faithful,
and
fully recompenses him who behaves arrogantly.
24 Be strong, and let
your heart take courage,
all
you who hope in Yahweh.
Psalms
31 from
Scroll Nahal
Hever Psalms
1 In you, Yahweh, I
take refuge.
Let
me never be disappointed.
Deliver
me in your righteousness.
2 Bow
down
your ear to me.
Deliver
me speedily.
Be
to me a strong rock,
a
house of defense to save me.
3 For you are my rock and my fortress,
therefore
for your names sake lead me and guide me.
4 Pluck me out of the
net that they have laid secretly for me,
for
you are my stronghold.
5 Into your hand I
commend my spirit.
You redeem
me, Yahweh, God of truth.
6 I hate those who
regard lying vanities,
but
I trust in Yahweh.
7 I will
be glad
and rejoice in your loving kindness,
for
you have seen my affliction.
You
have known my soul in adversities.
8 You have not shut me
up into the hand of the enemy.
You
have set my feet in a large place.
9 Have mercy on me,
Yahweh, for I am in distress.
My
eye, my
soul, and my body waste away with grief.
10 For my life is spent
with sorrow,
my years with sighing.
My
strength fails because of my iniquity.
My
bones are wasted away.
11 Because of all my adversaries I have become utterly contemptible to my neighbors,
a
horror to my acquaintances.
Those who saw me on the street fled from me.
12 I am forgotten from
their hearts like a dead man.
I
am like broken pottery.
13 For I have heard the slander of many,
terror on every side,
while
they conspire together against me,
they plot
to take away my life.
14 But I trust in you,
Yahweh.
I
said, You are my God.
15 My times are in your
hand.
Deliver
me from
the hand of my enemies, and from those who persecute me.
16 Make your face to
shine
on your servant.
Save me
in your loving kindness.
17 Let me not be
disappointed, Yahweh, for I have called on you.
Let
the
wicked be disappointed.
Let
them be silent in Sheol.
18 Let the lying lips be
mute,
which
speak against
the righteous insolently, with pride and contempt.
19 Oh how great is your
goodness,
which
you have laid up for those who fear you,
which you have worked for those who take refuge in you,
before
the sons of men!
20 In the shelter of your
presence
you will hide them from
the plotting of man.
You will keep them secretly in a dwelling away from the strife of
tongues.
21 Praise be to Yahweh,
for
he has shown me his marvelous loving kindness in a strong city.