Psaume 31:1-6

1 Au chef des chantres. Psaume de David. Eternel! je cherche en toi mon refuge: Que jamais je ne sois confondu! Délivre-moi dans ta justice!

2 Incline vers moi ton oreille, hâte-toi de me secourir! Sois pour moi un rocher protecteur, une forteresse, Où je trouve mon salut!

3 Car tu es mon rocher, ma forteresse; Et à cause de ton nom tu me conduiras, tu me dirigeras.

4 Tu me feras sortir du filet qu'ils m'ont tendu; Car tu es mon protecteur.

5 Je remets mon esprit entre tes mains; Tu me délivreras, Eternel, Dieu de vérité!

6 Je hais ceux qui s'attachent à de vaines idoles, Et je me confie en l'Eternel.

Psaume 31:1-6 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.