2
Before him I pour out my complaint, before him I tell my trouble.
3
When my spirit faints within me, you watch over my path. By the road that I am walking they have hidden a snare for me.
4
Look to my right, and see that no one recognizes me. I have no way of escape; nobody cares for me.
5
I cried out to you, ADONAI; I said, "You are my refuge, my portion in the land of the living."
6
Listen to my cry, for I have been brought very low. Rescue me from my persecutors, for they are too strong for me.
7
Lead me out of prison, so that I can give thanks to your name; in me the righteous will be crowning themselves, because you will have treated me generously.
Maschil of David; A Prayer when he was in the cave. Of the word "maschil," See Gill on "Ps 32:1," title. This psalm is called a prayer, as some others are, the ninetieth and hundred second psalms: and was composed by David when either in the cave of Adullam, 1 Samuel 22:1; or rather in the cave at Engedi, where he cut off Saul's skirt, 1 Samuel 24:3; as Jarchi and Kimchi think. The psalm represents the troubles of David, and of the Messiah his antitype, and is applicable to the church of God, or to any particular soul when in distress.