Psalm 31:8-10

8 You have not given me into the hands of the enemy but have set my feet in a spacious place.

9 Be merciful to me, LORD, for I am in distress; my eyes grow weak with sorrow, my soul and body with grief.

10 My life is consumed by anguish and my years by groaning; my strength fails because of my affliction,^[a]and my bones grow weak.

Psalm 31:8-10 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 Deuteronomy 32:30
• 2. S 2 Samuel 22:20
• 3. Psalms 4:1
• 4. Psalms 6:7
• 5. Psalms 63:1
• 6. ver 7
• 7. Psalms 6:6; Psalms 13:2
• 8. Psalms 22:15; Psalms 32:4; Psalms 38:10; Psalms 73:26
• 9. Psalms 25:18
• 10. S Psalms 6:2; Psalms 38:3; Psalms 39:11

Footnotes

• [a] Or "guilt"