Psalms 31:1-4

For the director of music. A psalm of David.

1 ^[a]In you, LORD, I have taken refuge; let me never be put to shame; deliver me in your righteousness.

2 Turn your ear to me, come quickly to my rescue; be my rock of refuge, a strong fortress to save me.

3 Since you are my rock and my fortress, for the sake of your name lead and guide me.

4 Keep me free from the trap that is set for me, for you are my refuge.

Psalms 31:1-4 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 Psalms 7:1
• 2. Psalms 5:8
• 3. S Psalms 6:4
• 4. S Exodus 2:17
• 5. S 2 Samuel 22:3; S Psalms 18:2
• 6. S Psalms 18:2
• 7. S Psalms 23:3
• 8. S 1 Samuel 28:9; S Job 18:10
• 9. Psalms 9:9; Psalms 25:15

Footnotes

• [a]. In Hebrew texts 31:1-24 is numbered 31:2-25.