In te, Domine, speravi.
A prayer of a just man under affliction.
30:1. Unto the end, a psalm for David, in an ecstasy.
30:2. In thee, O Lord, have I hoped, let me never be confounded:
deliver me in thy justice.
30:3. 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.
30:4. For thou art my strength and my refuge; and for thy name's sake
thou wilt lead me, and nourish me.
30:5. Thou wilt bring me out of this snare, which they have hidden for
me: for thou art my protector.
30:6. Into thy hands I commend my spirit: thou hast redeemed me, O
Lord, the God of truth.
30:7. Thou hast hated them that regard vanities, to no purpose. But I
have hoped in the Lord:
30:8. I will be glad and rejoice in thy mercy. For thou hast regarded
my humility, thou hast saved my soul out of distresses.
30:9. And thou hast not shut me up in the hands of the enemy: thou hast
set my feet in a spacious place.
30:10. Have mercy on me, O Lord, for I am afflicted: my eye is troubled
with wrath, my soul, and my belly:
30:11. For my life is wasted with grief: and my years in sighs. My
strength is weakened through poverty and my bones are disturbed.
30:12. 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.
30:13. I am forgotten as one dead from the heart. I am become as a
vessel that is destroyed.
30:14. 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.
30:15. But I have put my trust in thee, O Lord: I said: Thou art my
God.
30:16. My lots are in thy hands. Deliver me out of the hands of my
enemies; and from them that persecute me.
30:17. Make thy face to shine upon thy servant; save me in thy mercy.
30:18. Let me not be confounded, O Lord, for I have called upon thee.
Let the wicked be ashamed, and be brought down to hell.
30:19. Let deceitful lips be made dumb. Which speak iniquity against
the just, with pride and abuse.
30:20. 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.
30:21. 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.
30:22. Blessed be the Lord, for he hath shewn his wonderful mercy to me
in a fortified city.
30:23. 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.
30:24. O love the Lord, all ye his saints: for the Lord will require
truth, and will repay them abundantly that act proudly.
30:25. Do ye manfully, and let your heart be strengthened, all ye that
hope in the Lord.