{"meta":{"source":"Prime Bible","sourceUrl":"https://primebible.com","license":"Public domain (translation text); see citation policy at /citation-policy","organization":"501(c)(3) nonprofit — EIN 41-2531951","canonicalUrl":"https://primebible.com/akjv/psalms/31","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-05-26T04:56:17.931Z"},"reference":{"translation":"AKJV","book":"Psalms","bookSlug":"psalms","chapter":31,"testament":"OLD"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":30,"nextChapter":32,"totalChapters":150,"totalVerses":24},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"In you, O LORD, do I put my trust; let me never be ashamed: deliver me in your righteousness."},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"Bow down your ear to me; deliver me speedily: be you my strong rock, for an house of defense to save me."},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"For you are my rock and my fortress; therefore for your name's sake lead me, and guide me."},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"Pull me out of the net that they have laid privately for me: for you are my strength."},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"Into your hand I commit my spirit: you have redeemed me, O LORD God of truth."},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"I have hated them that regard lying vanities: but I trust in the LORD."},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"I will be glad and rejoice in your mercy: for you have considered my trouble; you have known my soul in adversities;"},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"And have not shut me up into the hand of the enemy: you have set my feet in a large room."},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"Have mercy on me, O LORD, for I am in trouble: my eye is consumed with grief, yes, my soul and my belly."},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"For my life is spent with grief, and my years with sighing: my strength fails because of my iniquity, and my bones are consumed."},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"I was a reproach among all my enemies, but especially among my neighbors, and a fear to my acquaintance: they that did see me without fled from me."},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind: I am like a broken vessel."},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"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."},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"But I trusted in you, O LORD: I said, You are my God."},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"My times are in your hand: deliver me from the hand of my enemies, and from them that persecute me."},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"Make your face to shine on your servant: save me for your mercies' sake."},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"Let me not be ashamed, O LORD; for I have called on you: let the wicked be ashamed, and let them be silent in the grave."},{"verseNumber":18,"text":"Let the lying lips be put to silence; which speak grievous things proudly and contemptuously against the righteous."},{"verseNumber":19,"text":"Oh how great is your goodness, which you have laid up for them that fear you; which you have worked for them that trust in you before the sons of men!"},{"verseNumber":20,"text":"You shall hide them in the secret of your presence from the pride of man: you shall keep them secretly in a pavilion from the strife of tongues."},{"verseNumber":21,"text":"Blessed be the LORD: for he has showed me his marvelous kindness in a strong city."},{"verseNumber":22,"text":"For I said in my haste, I am cut off from before your eyes: nevertheless you heard the voice of my supplications when I cried to you."},{"verseNumber":23,"text":"O love the LORD, all you his saints: for the LORD preserves the faithful, and plentifully rewards the proud doer."},{"verseNumber":24,"text":"Be of good courage, and he shall strengthen your heart, all you that hope in the LORD."}],"citation":{"inline":"Psalms 31 (AKJV)","markdown":"[Psalms 31](https://primebible.com/akjv/psalms/31)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* AKJV. https://primebible.com/akjv/psalms/31 (accessed 2026-05-26)."}}