Psalms 31:1-5

1 ¹In you, O LORD, do I ²take refuge; ³let me never be put to shame; in your ⁴righteousness deliver me!

2 Incline your ear to me; rescue me speedily! Be ⁵a rock of ⁶refuge for me, a strong fortress to save me!

3 For you are my rock and my fortress; and for your ⁷name's sake you lead me and guide me;

4 you ⁸take me out of ⁹the net they have hidden for me, for you are my ¹⁰refuge.

5 ¹¹Into your hand I commit my spirit; you have redeemed me, O LORD, ¹²faithful God.

Psalms 31:1-5 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. For ver. 1-3, see Psalms 71:1-3
• 2. See Psalms 11:1
• 3. ver. 17
• 4. Psalms 143:1
• 5. See Psalms 18:2
• 6. [Psalms 91:2]
• 7. See Psalms 23:3
• 8. Psalms 25:15
• 9. See Job 18:8
• 10. Psalms 43:2
• 11. Cited Luke 23:46; [Acts 7:59]
• 12. Deuteronomy 32:4