Psalms 31:19-20

19 How great is Your ¹goodness, Which You have stored up for those who fear You, Which You have wrought for those who ²take refuge in You, ³Before the sons of men!

20 You hide them in the ⁴secret place of Your presence from the ⁵conspiracies of man; You keep them secretly in a shelter from the ⁶strife of tongues.

Psalms 31:19-20 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 65:4; Psalms 145:7; Isaiah 64:4; Romans 2:4; Romans 11:22
• 2. Psalms 5:11
• 3. Psalms 23:5
• 4. Psalms 27:5
• 5. Psalms 37:12
• 6. Job 5:21; Psalms 31:13

Footnotes

• [a]. Or "pavilion"