2 Bow down your ear to me. Deliver me speedily. Be to me a strong rock, A house of defense to save me.
Don't hide your face from me in the day of my distress. Turn your ear to me. Answer me quickly in the day when I call.
> Hear, Yahweh, and answer me, For I am poor and needy.
For their rock is not as our Rock, Even our enemies themselves being judges.
Hurry to answer me, Yahweh. My spirit fails. Don't hide your face from me, So that I don't become like those who go down into the pit.
No one has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God remains in us, and his love has been perfected in us.
He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood lives in me, and I in him.
He shall dwell on high; his place of defense shall be the munitions of rocks; his bread shall be given [him]; his waters shall be sure.
Turn your ear, and listen to the words of the wise. Apply your heart to my teaching.
Lord, hear my voice. Let your ears be attentive to the voice of my petitions.
But Yahweh has been my high tower, My God, the rock of my refuge.
> Lord, you have been our dwelling place for all generations.
> God, the nations have come into your inheritance. They have defiled your holy temple. They have laid Jerusalem in heaps.
With God is my salvation and my honor. The rock of my strength, and my refuge, is in God.
But I am poor and needy; May the Lord think about me. You are my help and my deliverer. Don't delay, my God.
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Commentary on Psalms 31 Matthew Henry Commentary
Psalm 31
It is probable that David penned this psalm when he was persecuted by Saul; some passages in it agree particularly to the narrow escapes he had, at Keilah (1 Sa. 23:13), then in the wilderness of Maon, when Saul marched on one side of the hill and he on the other, and, soon after, in the cave in the wilderness of En-gedi; but that it was penned upon any of those occasions we are not told. It is a mixture of prayers, and praises, and professions of confidence in God, all which do well together and are helpful to one another.
To the chief musician. A psalm of David.
Psa 31:1-8
Faith and prayer must go together. He that believes, let his pray-I believe, therefore I have spoken: and he that prays, let him believe, for the prayer of faith is the prevailing prayer. We have both here.
Psa 31:9-18
In the foregoing verses David had appealed to God's righteousness, and pleaded his relation to him and dependence on him; here he appeals to his mercy, and pleads the greatness of his own misery, which made his case the proper object of that mercy. Observe,
Psa 31:19-24
We have three things in these verses:-
In singing this we should animate ourselves and one another to proceed and persevere in our Christian course, whatever threatens us, and whoever frowns upon us.