Psalms 31:11-21

11 Because of all my adversaries I have become a disgrace, especially to my neighbors, and a dread to my acquaintances. [Those who] see me in the street flee from me.
12 I have become forgotten like [one] dead, out of {mind}. I am like a destroyed vessel.
13 For I hear [the] rumor of many, "Terror on every side!" When conspiring together against me, they have plotted to take my life.
14 But as for me, I trust you, O Yahweh. I say, "You [are] my God."
15 My times [are] in your hand. Deliver me from the hand of my enemies and from [those who] pursue me.
16 Shine your face upon your servant. Save me by your loyal love.
17 O Yahweh, let me not be put to shame, for I call on you. Let the wicked be put to shame. Let them [go] silently to Sheol.
18 Let lying lips be dumb, that speak against [the] righteous unrestrained with arrogance and contempt.
19 How abundant [is] your goodness that you have stored up for [those who] fear you, that you perform for those who take refuge in you before [the] children of humankind.
20 You will hide them in the protection of your presence from [the] plots of man. You will hide them in a shelter from [the] strife of tongues.
21 Blessed [is] Yahweh, because he has worked marvelously his loyal love to me in a besieged city.

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.

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