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Psalm 31:4-14

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4 You will 1pull me out of the net which they have secretly laid for me, For You are my 2strength.
5 3Into Your hand I commit my spirit; You have 4ransomed me, O LORD, 5God of truth.
6 I hate those who 6regard vain idols, But I 7trust in the LORD.
7 I will 8rejoice and be glad in Your lovingkindness, Because You have 9seen my affliction; You have known the troubles of my soul,
8 And You have not 10given me over into the hand of the enemy; You have set my feet in a large place.
9 Be gracious to me, O LORD, for 11I am in distress; My 12eye is wasted away from grief, 13my soul and my body also.
10 For my life is spent with 14sorrow And my years with sighing; My 15strength has failed because of my iniquity, And 16my body has wasted away.
11 Because of all my adversaries, I have become a 17reproach, Especially to my 18neighbors, And an object of dread to my acquaintances; Those who see me in the street flee from me.
12 I am 19forgotten as a dead man, out of mind; I am like a broken vessel.
13 For I have heard the 20slander of many, 21Terror is on every side; While they 22took counsel together against me, They 23schemed to take away my life.
14 But as for me, I trust in You, O LORD, I say, "24You are my God."
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Psalm 31:4-14 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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Cross References 24

  • 1. Psalms 25:15
  • 2. Psalms 46:1
  • 3. Luke 23:46; Acts 7:59
  • 4. Psalms 55:18; Psalms 71:23
  • 5. Deuteronomy 32:4; Psalms 71:22
  • 6. Jonah 2:8
  • 7. Psalms 52:8
  • 8. Psalms 90:14
  • 9. Psalms 10:14
  • 10. Deuteronomy 32:30; Psalms 37:33
  • 11. Psalms 66:14; Psalms 69:17
  • 12. Psalms 6:7
  • 13. Psalms 63:1
  • 14. Psalms 13:2
  • 15. Psalms 39:11
  • 16. Psalms 32:3; Psalms 38:3; Psalms 102:3
  • 17. Psalms 69:19
  • 18. Job 19:13; Psalms 38:11; Psalms 88:8, 18
  • 19. Psalms 88:5
  • 20. Psalms 50:20; Jeremiah 20:10
  • 21. Lamentations 2:22
  • 22. Psalms 62:4; Matthew 27:1
  • 23. Psalms 41:7
  • 24. Psalms 140:6

Footnotes 4

  • [a] Or "faithfulness"
  • [b] Lit "empty vanities"
  • [c] Or "bones, substance"
  • [d] Lit "whispering"
Scripture quotations taken from the (NASB®) New American Standard Bible®, Copyright © 1960, 1971, 1977, 1995 by The Lockman Foundation. Used by permission. All rights reserved. www.Lockman.org

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