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 wrougth for them that hope inthee, 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. Thoushalt protect them in thy tabernacle form 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. Psalms Chapter 31 Beati quorum. The second penitential psalm. 31:1. To David himself, understanding. Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven, and whose sins are covered. 31:2. Blessed is the man to whom the Lord hath not inputed sin, and in whose spirit there is no guile. 31:3. Because I was silent my bones grew old; whilst I cried out all the day long. Because I was silent, etc... That is, whilst I kept silence, by concealing, or refusing to confess my sins, thy hand was heavy upon me, etc. 31:4. For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me: I am turned in my anguish, whilst the thorn is fastened. I am turned, etc... That is, I turn and roll about in my bed to seek for ease in my pain whilst the thorn of thy justice pierces my flesh, and sticks fast in me. Or, I am turned: that is, I am converted to thee, my God, by being brought to a better understanding by thy chastisements. In the Hebrew it is, my moisture is turned into the droughts of the summer. 31:5. I have acknowledged my sin to thee, and my injustice I have not concealed. I said I will confess against my self my injustice to the Lord: and thou hast forgiven the wickedness of my sin. 31:6. For this shall every one that is holy pray to thee in a seasonable time. And yet in a flood of many waters, they shall not come nigh unto him. 31:7. Thou art my fefuge from the trouble which hath eencompassed me: my joy, deliver me from them that surround me.