31 In Thee, O Lord, do I put my trust; let me never be ashamed; deliver me in Thy righteousness.

² Bow down Thine ear to me, deliver me speedily; be Thou my strong rock, a house of defense to save me.

³ For Thou art my rock and my fortress; therefore for the sake of Thy name, lead me and guide me.

⁴ Pull me out of the net that they have laid privily for me, for Thou art my strength.

⁵ Into Thine hand I commit my spirit; Thou hast redeemed me, O Lord God of truth.

⁶ I have hated them that have regard for lying vanities; but I trust in the Lord.

⁷ I will be glad and rejoice in Thy mercy, for Thou hast considered my trouble. Thou hast known my soul in adversities,

⁸ And hast not delivered me into the hands of the enemy; Thou hast set my feet in a large room.

⁹ Have mercy upon me, O Lord, for I am in trouble; mine eye is consumed with grief, yea, my soul and my belly.

¹⁰ For my life is spent with grief, and my years with sighing; my strength faileth because of mine iniquity, and my bones are consumed.

¹¹ I am a reproach among all mine enemies, but especially among my neighbors, and a fear to mine acquaintances; they that see me in the streets flee from me.

¹² I am forgotten as a dead man, out of mind; I am like a broken vessel.

¹³ For I have heard the slander of many; fear was on every side; while they took counsel together against me, they schemed to take away my life.

¹⁴ But I have trusted in Thee, O Lord; I said, “Thou art my God.”

¹⁵ My times are in Thy hand; deliver me from the hand of mine enemies and from them that persecute me.

¹⁶ Make Thy face to shine upon Thy servant; save me for Thy mercies’ sake.

¹⁷ Let me not be ashamed, O Lord, for I have called upon Thee; let the wicked be ashamed, and let them be silent in the grave.

¹⁸ Let the lying lips be put to silence, which speak grievous things proudly and contemptuously against the righteous.

¹⁹ O how great is Thy goodness which Thou hast laid up for them that fear Thee, which Thou hast wrought for them that trust in Thee before the sons of men!

²⁰ Thou shalt hide them in the safety of Thy presence from the pride of man; Thou shalt keep them secretly in a pavilion from the strife of tongues.

²¹ Blessed be the Lord, for He hath shown me His marvelous kindness in a stronghold city!

²² For I said in my haste, “I am cut off from before Thine eyes!” Nevertheless Thou heard the voice of my supplications when I cried unto Thee.

²³ O love the Lord, all ye His saints! For the Lord preserveth the faithful, but plentifully rewardeth the proud doer.

²⁴ Be of good courage, and He shall strengthen your heart, all ye that hope in the Lord.

32 Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered.

² Blessed is the man unto whom the Lord imputeth not iniquity, and in whose spirit there is no guile.

³ When I kept silent, my bones waxed old through my groaning all the day long.

⁴ For day and night Thy hand was heavy upon me; the sap of my soul was turned into the drought of summer. Selah

⁵ I acknowledged my sin unto Thee, and mine iniquity have I not hid. I said, “I will confess my transgressions unto the Lord,” and Thou forgavest the iniquity of my sin. Selah

⁶ For this shall every one that is godly pray unto Thee in a time when Thou mayest be found; surely the floods of great waters shall not come nigh unto him.

⁷ Thou art my hiding place; Thou shalt preserve me from trouble; Thou shalt compass me about with songs of deliverance. Selah

⁸ “I will instruct thee and teach thee in the way which thou shalt go; I will guide thee with Mine eye.

⁹ Be ye not as the horse or as the mule which have no understanding, whose mouth must be held in with bit and bridle, lest they not come near unto thee.”

¹⁰ Many shall be the sorrows of the wicked; but he that trusteth in the Lord, mercy shall compass him about.

¹¹ Be glad in the Lord and rejoice, ye righteous; and shout for joy, all ye that are upright in heart!

¹⁶ But when Paul’s sister’s son heard of their lying in wait, he went and entered into the castle and told Paul.

¹⁷ Then Paul called one of the centurions unto him and said, “Bring this young man unto the chief captain, for he hath a certain thing to tell him.”

¹⁸ So he took him and brought him to the chief captain and said, “Paul, the prisoner, called me unto him and prayed me to bring this young man unto thee, as he hath something to say unto thee.”

¹⁹ Then the chief captain took him by the hand, and going aside with him privately, asked him, “What is it that thou hast to tell me?”

²⁰ And he said, “The Jews have agreed to request thee that thou wouldest bring down Paul tomorrow into the council, as though they wished to inquire of him somewhat more thoroughly.

²¹ But do not thou yield unto them, for there lie in wait for him more than forty of their men, who have bound themselves with an oath that they will neither eat nor drink until they have killed him. And now they are ready, looking for consent from thee.”

²² So the chief captain then let the young man depart and charged him, “See thou tell no man that thou hast revealed these things to me.”

²³ And he called unto him two centurions, saying, “Make ready two hundred soldiers to go to Caesarea, and threescore and ten horsemen, and two hundred spearmen, at the third hour of the night;

²⁴ and provide them with beasts that they may set Paul on, and bring him safe unto Felix the governor.”

²⁵ And he wrote a letter in this manner:

²⁶ “Claudius Lysias, unto the most excellent governor Felix, sendeth greeting:

²⁷ This man was taken by the Jews, and was about to be killed by them. Then came I with an army and rescued him, having understood that he was a Roman.

²⁸ And desiring to know the cause whereof they accused him, I brought him forth into their council.

²⁹ I perceived him to be accused about questions of their law, but there was nothing laid to his charge worthy of death or of bonds.

³⁰ And when it was told me how the Jews lay in wait for the man, I sent him straightway to thee, and gave a command to his accusers also to speak before thee what they have against him. Farewell.”

³¹ Then the soldiers took Paul, as it was commanded them, and brought him by night to Antipatris.

³² On the morrow they left the horsemen to go with him and returned to the castle,

³³ who, when they had come to Caesarea and delivered the epistle to the governor, presented Paul also before him.

³⁴ And when the governor had read the letter, he asked of what province Paul was. And when he understood that he was from Cilicia,

³⁵ he said, “I will hear thee when thine accusers have also come.” And he commanded him to be kept in Herod’s judgment hall.