Psalms 31:4

4 quoniam die ac nocte gravata est super me manus tua conversus sum in aerumna *mea; dum configitur %mihi; spina diapsalma

Psalms 31:4 Meaning and Commentary

Psalms 31:4

Pull me out of the net that they have laid privily for me
The Ziphites, and Saul, and his men; the former intending treacherously to betray him, and the latter encompassing him about in order to take him; and such was his danger and difficulty, that he saw none but God could deliver him; and he it is that breaks the nets of men, and the snares of the devil, which they secretly lay for the people of God, that they may stumble, and fall, and be taken, and delivers them out of them;

for thou [art] my strength;
the author, giver, and maintainer, both of his natural and spiritual strength; and who was able, and was only able, to pull him out of the net, and extricate him out of the difficulties in which he was.

Psalms 31:4 In-Context

2 beatus vir cui non inputabit Dominus peccatum nec est in spiritu eius dolus
3 quoniam tacui inveteraverunt ossa mea dum clamarem tota die
4 quoniam die ac nocte gravata est super me manus tua conversus sum in aerumna *mea; dum configitur %mihi; spina diapsalma
5 delictum meum cognitum *tibi; feci et iniustitiam meam non abscondi dixi confitebor adversus me iniustitiam meam Domino et tu remisisti impietatem peccati mei diapsalma
6 pro hac orabit ad te omnis sanctus in tempore oportuno verumtamen in diluvio aquarum multarum ad eum non adproximabunt
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