Psalms 31:19-24

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.

21 ⁷Blessed be the LORD, For He has made ⁸marvelous His lovingkindness to me in a besieged ⁹city.

22 As for me, ¹⁰I said in my alarm, "I am ¹¹cut off from before Your eyes "; Nevertheless You ¹²heard the voice of my supplications When I cried to You.

23 O love the LORD, all you ¹³His godly ones! The LORD ¹⁴preserves the faithful And fully ¹⁵recompenses the proud doer.

24 ¹⁶Be strong and let your heart take courage, All you who hope in the LORD.

Psalms 31:19-24 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
• 7. Psalms 28:6
• 8. Psalms 17:7
• 9. 1 Samuel 23:7; Psalms 87:5
• 10. Psalms 116:11
• 11. Psalms 88:5; Isaiah 38:11, 12; Lamentations 3:54
• 12. Psalms 18:6; Psalms 66:19; Psalms 145:19
• 13. Psalms 30:4; Psalms 37:28; Psalms 50:5
• 14. Psalms 145:20; Revelation 2:10
• 15. Deuteronomy 32:41; Psalms 94:2
• 16. Psalms 27:14

Footnotes

• [a]. Or "pavilion"
• [b]. Or "wait for"