Psalms 30:1-12

1 For the end, a Psalm of David, an utterance of extreme fear.

2 O Lord, I have hoped in thee; let me never be ashamed:

Deliver me in thy righteousness and rescue me.

3 Incline thine ear to me;

Make haste to rescue me:

Be thou to me for a protecting God,

And for a house of refuge to save me.

4 For thou art my strength and my refuge;

And thou shalt guide me for thy name’s sake, and maintain me.

5 Thou shalt bring me out of the snare which they have hidden for me;

For thou, O Lord, art my defender.

6 Into thy hands I will commit my spirit:

Thou hast redeemed me, O Lord God of truth.

7 Thou hast hated them that idly persist in vanities:

But I have hoped in the Lord.

8 I will exult and be glad in thy mercy:

For thou hast looked upon mine affliction;

Thou hast saved my soul from distresses.

9 And thou hast not shut me up into the hands of the enemy:

Thou hast set my feet in a wide place.

10 Pity me, O Lord, for I am afflicted:

My eye is troubled with indignation,

My soul and my belly.

11 For my life is spent with grief,

And my years with groanings:

My strength has been weakened through poverty,

And my bones are troubled.

12 I became a reproach among all mine enemies,

But exceedingly so to my neighbors,

And a fear to mine acquaintance:

They that saw me without fled from me.