Psalm 31:17 {30:18}
Good News Translation
I call to you, LORD; don't let me be disgraced. May the wicked be disgraced; may they go silently down to the world of the dead.

New Revised Standard Version
Do not let me be put to shame, O LORD, for I call on you; let the wicked be put to shame; let them go dumbfounded to Sheol.

Contemporary English Version
I pray only to you. Don't disappoint me. Disappoint my cruel enemies until they lie silent in their graves.

New American Bible
Do not let me be put to shame, for I have called to you, LORD. Put the wicked to shame; reduce them to silence in Sheol.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Let me not be confounded, O Lord, for I have called upon thee. Let the wicked be ashamed, and be brought down to hell.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Let me not be confounded, O Lord, for I have called upon thee. Let the wicked be ashamed, and be brought down to hell.

Let me

Psalm 31:1 Unto the end, a psalm for David, in an ecstasy. [2] In thee, O Lord, have I hoped, let me never be confounded: deliver me in thy justice.

Psalm 25:2,3 In thee, O my God, I put my trust; let me not be ashamed. . . .

Psalm 34:5 Come ye to him and be enlightened: and your faces shall not be confounded.

Psalm 69:6,7 Let not them be ashamed for me, who look for thee, O Lord, the Lord of hosts. Let them not be confounded on my account, who seek thee, O God of Israel. . . .

Isaiah 50:6,7 I have given my body to the strikers, and my cheeks to them that plucked them: I have not turned away my face from them that rebuked me, and spit upon me. . . .

Joel 2:26,27 And you shall eat in plenty, and shall be filled and you shall praise the name of the Lord your God; who hath done wonders with you, and my people shall not be confounded for ever. . . .

wicked

Psalm 6:10 Let all my enemies be ashamed, and be very much troubled: let them be turned back, and be ashamed very speedily.

Psalm 35:4,26 Let them be confounded and ashamed that seek after my soul. Let them be turned back and be confounded that devise evil against me. . . .

Psalm 40:14,15 Let them be confounded and ashamed together, that seek after my soul to take it away. Let them be turned backward and be ashamed that desire evils to me. . . .

Psalm 70:2,3 Let them be confounded and ashamed that seek my soul: . . .

Psalm 71:24 Yea and my tongue shall meditate on thy justice all the day; when they shall be confounded and put to shame that seek evils to me.

Psalm 83:16,17 Fill their faces with shame; and they shall seek thy name, O Lord. . . .

Isaiah 41:11,12 Behold all that fight against thee shall be confounded and ashamed, they shall be as nothing, and the men shall perish that strive against thee. . . .

Isaiah 45:16,17 They are all confounded and ashamed: the forgers of errors are gone together into confusion. . . .

Isaiah 65:13,14 Therefore thus saith the Lord God: Behold my servants shall eat, and you shall be hungry: behold my servants shall drink, and you shall be thirsty. . . .

Jeremiah 20:11 But the Lord is with me as a strong warrior: therefore they that persecute me shall fall, and shall be weak: they shall be greatly confounded, because they have not understood the everlasting reproach, which never shall be effaced.

Daniel 12:2 And many of those that sleep in the dust of the earth, shall awake: some unto life everlasting, and others unto reproach, to see it always.

them

Psalm 115:17 The dead shall not praise thee, O Lord: nor any of them that go down to hell.

1 Samuel 2:9 He will keep the feet of his saints, and the wicked shall be silent in darkness; because no man shall prevail by his own strength.

Matthew 22:12 And he saith to him: Friend, how camest thou in hither not having on a wedding garment? But he was silent.

them

Psalm 115:17 The dead shall not praise thee, O Lord: nor any of them that go down to hell.

1 Samuel 2:9 He will keep the feet of his saints, and the wicked shall be silent in darkness; because no man shall prevail by his own strength.

Matthew 22:12,13 And he saith to him: Friend, how camest thou in hither not having on a wedding garment? But he was silent. . . .

silent in the grave.

Context
Into Your Hands I Commit My Spirit
16Make thy face to shine upon thy servant; save me in thy mercy. 17Let me not be confounded, O Lord, for I have called upon thee. Let the wicked be ashamed, and be brought down to hell.18Let deceitful lips be made dumb. Which speak iniquity against the just, with pride and abuse.…
Cross References
1 Samuel 2:9
He will keep the feet of his saints, and the wicked shall be silent in darkness; because no man shall prevail by his own strength.

2 Kings 2:23
And he went up from thence to Bethel: and as he was going up by the way, little boys came out of the city and mocked him, saying: Go up, thou bald head, go up, thou bald head.

Psalm 25:2
In thee, O my God, I put my trust; let me not be ashamed.

Psalm 25:3
Neither let my enemies laugh at me: for none of them that wait on thee shall be confounded.

Psalm 25:20
Keep thou my soul, and deliver me: I shall not be ashamed, for I have hoped in thee.

Psalm 94:17
Unless the Lord had been my helper, my soul had almost dwelt in hell.

Psalm 115:17
The dead shall not praise thee, O Lord: nor any of them that go down to hell.

Psalm 119:116
Uphold me according to thy word, and I shall live: and let me not be confounded in my expectation.

Psalm 31:16
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