Psaume 31:1-7

1 Au maître-chantre. Psaume de David.

2 Éternel, je me suis retiré vers toi; que je ne sois jamais confus! Délivre-moi par ta justice!

3 Incline ton oreille vers moi; hâte-toi de me délivrer; sois mon rocher, ma retraite, ma forteresse où je puisse me sauver!

4 Car tu es mon rocher et ma forteresse; pour l'amour de ton nom, tu me guideras et me conduiras.

5 Tu me tireras du piège qu'on m'a tendu; car tu es ma retraite.

6 Je remets mon esprit entre tes mains; tu m'as racheté, ô Éternel, Dieu de vérité!

7 Je hais ceux qui s'adonnent aux vanités trompeuses; pour moi, je me confie en l'Éternel.

Psaume 31:1-7 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.