Psalms 31:1-6

A Psalm of Complaint and of Praise.

1 ¹In You, O LORD, I have taken refuge; Let me never * ²be ashamed; ³In Your righteousness deliver me.

2 ⁴Incline Your ear to me, rescue me quickly; Be to me a ⁵rock of strength, A stronghold to save me.

3 For You are my rock and ⁶my fortress; For ⁷Your name's sake You will lead me and guide me.

4 You will ⁸pull me out of the net which they have secretly laid for me, For You are my ⁹strength.

5 ¹⁰Into Your hand I commit my spirit; You have ¹¹ransomed me, O LORD, ¹²God of truth.

6 I hate those who ¹³regard vain idols, But I ¹⁴trust in the LORD.

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.

Cross References

• 1. Psalms 31:1-3; Psalms 71:1-3
• 2. Psalms 25:2
• 3. Psalms 143:1
• 4. Psalms 17:6; Psalms 71:2; Psalms 86:1; Psalms 102:2
• 5. Psalms 18:2; Psalms 71:3
• 6. Psalms 18:2
• 7. Psalms 23:3; Psalms 25:11
• 8. Psalms 25:15
• 9. Psalms 46:1
• 10. Luke 23:46; Acts 7:59
• 11. Psalms 55:18; Psalms 71:23
• 12. Deuteronomy 32:4; Psalms 71:22
• 13. Jonah 2:8
• 14. Psalms 52:8

Footnotes

• [a]. Or "refuge, protection"
• [b]. Or "crag"
• [c]. Or "faithfulness"
• [d]. Lit "empty vanities"