Psalms 31:11-21

11 (30-12) I am become a reproach among all my enemies, and very much to my neighbours; and a fear to my acquaintance. They that saw me without fled from me.
12 (30-13) I am forgotten as one dead from the heart. I am become as a vessel that is destroyed.
13 (30-14) For I have heard the blame of many that dwell round about. While they assembled together against me, they consulted to take away my life.
14 (30-15) But I have put my trust in thee, O Lord: I said: Thou art my God.
15 (30-16) My lots are in thy hands. Deliver me out of the hands of my enemies; and from them that persecute me.
16 (30-17) Make thy face to shine upon thy servant; save me in thy mercy.
17 (30-18) Let me not be confounded, O Lord, for I have called upon thee. Let the wicked be ashamed, and be brought down to hell.
18 (30-19) Let deceitful lips be made dumb. Which speak iniquity against the just, with pride and abuse.
19 (30-20) O how great is the multitude of thy sweetness, O Lord, which thou hast hidden for them that fear thee! Which thou hast wrought for them that hope in thee, in the sight of the sons of men.
20 (30-21) Thou shalt hide them in the secret of thy face, from the disturbance of men. Thou shalt protect them in thy tabernacle form the contradiction of tongues.
21 (30-22) Blessed be the Lord, for he hath shewn his wonderful mercy to me in a fortified city.

Psalms 31:11-21 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.
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