Psa Psalms, psalm Book of Psalms, psalm 31
(For the one directing. Mizmor Dovid)
In Thee, Hashem, do I take refuge;
let me never be put to shame;
deliver me in Thy tzedakah.Isa 49:23
Incline Thine ear to me;
deliver me speedily;
be Thou for me a Tzur Ma'oz,
a Bais Metzudot (fortress) to save me.
For Thou art my Sela (rock) and my Metzudah (fortress);
therefore for the sake of Thy Name, lead me, and guide me.Psa 18:3
Pull me out of the reshet (trap, net)
that they have laid for me;
for Thou art my ma'oz (stronghold).
Into Thine yad I commit my ruach;
Thou hast redeemed me, Hashem El Emes.31:6 Lk 23:46; Ac 7:59Luk 23:46
I hate them that are the shomrim of lying vanities;31:7 i.e., idols
but I trust in Hashem.Deu 32:21; Psa 62:11
I will be glad and rejoice in Thy chesed;
for Thou hast seen my affliction;
Thou hast known the tzoros (troubles) of my nefesh;
And hast not shut me up into the yad of the oyev (enemy);
Thou hast set my feet in a merkhav
(large place, spacious or broad place).Psa 18:20
Channeni, Hashem, for I am in tzoros;
mine eye is consumed with ka'as (grief),
my nefesh and my beten.Psa 6:8
For my life is spent with grief,
and my years with groaning;
my ko'ach faileth because of mine avon (iniquity),
and my atzmot waste away.Psa 109:24
I was a cherpah (reproach, scorn, disgrace) among all mine enemies,
but especially among my shchenim (neighbors),
and a dread to mine acquaintance;
they that did see me outside fled from me.Job 19:13
I am forgotten like a dead man out of mind;
I am like a keli oved (broken vessel).Ecc 9:5; Jer 48:38
For I have heard the dibbah (evil report, slander) of many;
terror was on every side;
while they conspire against me,
they plot to take my nefesh.Psa 2:2
But I trust in Thee, Hashem;
I said, Thou art Elohai.
My times are in Thy yad;
deliver me from the yad of mine oyevim (enemies),
and from them that persecute me.Psa 39:5; Psa 139:16
Make Thy face to shine upon Thy eved;
hoshi'eini (save me) for the sake of Thy chesed.Num 6:25; Psa 4:7; Dan 9:18
Let me not be put to shame, Hashem;
for I have called upon Thee;
let the resha'im be put to shame,
and let them keep silent in Sheol.
Let the siftei sheker (lying lips) be put to silence;
which speak insolent things with ga'avah (pride)
and contemptuously against the tzaddik.
Oh how great is Thy goodness,
which Thou hast stored up for them that fear Thee;
which Thou hast wrought for them that take refuge in Thee
before the Bnei Adam!Isa 64:3
Thou shalt hide them b'seter (in the shelter) of Thy presence
from the intrigues of ish;
Thou shalt keep them safe in a sukkah
from the riv l'shonot (the strife of tongues, contentious lashon hora, backbiting, slander).1Sa 25:29; Psa 27:5
Baruch Hashem! For He hath showed me
His wondrous chesed in an Ir Matzor (besieged city).Psa 4:4
For I said in my haste,
I am cut off from before Thine eyes;
nevertheless Thou heardest the voice of my tachanun (supplications)
when unto Thee I cried for help.Psa 145:19
O love Hashem, all ye His Chasidim;
for Hashem preserveth the emunim (the faithful ones),
but He pays back in full the oseh ga'avah (the one acting in pride, haughtily).Job 22:29; Pro 29:23; 1Pe 5:5
Chazak! Be strong, let your levav take courage,
all ye that hope in Hashem.