Psalms 31:13-15

13 For I hear many whispering, “Terror on every side!” They conspire against me and plot to take my life.

14 But I trust in you, LORD; I say, “You are my God.”

15 My times are in your hands; deliver me from the hands of my enemies, from those who pursue me.

Psalms 31:13-15 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. S Leviticus 19:16; Psalms 50:20
• 2. S Job 18:11; Isaiah 13:8; Jeremiah 6:25; Jeremiah 20:3,10; Jeremiah 46:5; Jeremiah 49:5; Lamentations 2:22
• 3. Psalms 41:7; Psalms 56:6; Psalms 71:10; Psalms 83:3
• 4. S Genesis 37:18; S Matthew 12:14; Matthew 27:1
• 5. Psalms 4:5; Psalms 140:6
• 6. S Job 14:5; Job 24:1; Psalms 143:9