Psalms 31:1-6

Yahweh Is a Fortress

For the [music] director. A psalm of David.

1 In you, O Yahweh, I have taken refuge. Let me not be put to shame ever. Deliver me by your righteousness.

2 Incline your ear to me. Quickly deliver me. Become my rock of refuge, {a fortified keep} to save me.

3 For you [are] my rock and my fortress. So, for the sake of your name, lead me and guide me.

4 Bring me out of [the] net that they have secretly set for me, for you [are] my refuge.

5 Into your hand I commit my spirit. You have redeemed me, O Yahweh, faithful God.

6 I hate those devoted to useless idols, but I trust Yahweh.

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Psalms 31:1-6 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

Footnotes 3

[a]. The Hebrew Bible counts the superscription as the first verse of the psalm; the English verse number is reduced by one
[b]. Literally "a house of strongholds"
[c]. Or "God of truth"