Psalms 31:11-21

11 Because of all my adversaries I have become ¹a reproach, especially to my ²neighbors, and an object of dread to my acquaintances; those who see me in the street ³flee from me.

12 I have been ⁴forgotten like one who is dead; I have become like ⁵a broken vessel.

13 For I ⁶hear the whispering of many-- terror on every side!-- ⁷as they scheme together against me, as they plot to take my life.

14 But I ⁸trust in you, O LORD; I say, "You are my God."

15 My ⁹times are in your hand; ¹⁰rescue me from the hand of my enemies and from my persecutors!

16 ¹¹Make your face shine on your servant; save me in your steadfast love!

17 O LORD, ¹²let me not be put to shame, for I call upon you; let the wicked be put to shame; let them go ¹³silently to Sheol.

18 Let the lying lips be mute, which ¹⁴speak ¹⁵insolently against the righteous in pride and contempt.

19 Oh, how abundant is your goodness, which you have stored up for those who fear you and worked for those who take refuge in you, ¹⁶in the sight of the children of mankind!

20 In ¹⁷the cover of your presence you hide them from the plots of men; you ¹⁸store them in your shelter from the strife of tongues.

21 Blessed be the LORD, for he has wondrously ¹⁹shown his steadfast love to me when I was in ²⁰a besieged city.

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Psalms 31:11-21 Meaning and Commentary

To the chief Musician, a Psalm of David. This psalm, according to Arama, was composed by David when in Keilah; but, according to Kimchi and others, when the Ziphites proposed to deliver him up into the hands of Saul; and who, upon their solicitations, came down and surrounded him with his army, from whom in haste he made his escape, and to which he is thought to refer in Psalm 31:22. Theodoret supposes it was written by David when he fled from Absalom, and that it has some respect in it to his sin against Uriah, in that verse.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

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1. [Psalms 41:7, 8; Isaiah 53:3]
2. See Job 19:13, 14
3. [Matthew 26:56; Mark 14:50]
4. Psalms 88:5; Ecclesiastes 9:5
5. Isaiah 30:14
6. Jeremiah 20:10
7. [Matthew 27:1]; See 2 Samuel 17:1-4
8. ver. 1, 6
9. 1 Chronicles 29:30; Job 24:1
10. Psalms 7:1
11. See Psalms 4:6
12. ver. 1
13. 1 Samuel 2:9; [Psalms 94:17; Psalms 115:17]
14. [Jude 15]
15. Psalms 17:10
16. Psalms 23:5
17. See Psalms 32:7
18. See Psalms 27:5
19. Psalms 17:7
20. [1 Samuel 23:7]

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Psalms 31:11-21

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Psalms 31:11-21 Meaning and Commentary

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