2 Bow down thine ear unto me; deliver me speedily: Be thou to me a strong rock, A house of defence to save me.
Hide not thy face from me in the day of my distress: Incline thine ear unto me; In the day when I call answer me speedily.
Bow down thine ear, O Jehovah, and answer me; For I am poor and needy.
For their rock is not as our Rock, Even our enemies themselves being judges.
Make haste to answer me, O Jehovah; my spirit faileth: Hide not thy face from me, Lest I become like them that go down into the pit.
No man hath beheld God at any time: if we love one another, God abideth in us, and his love is perfected in us:
He that eateth my flesh and drinketh my blood abideth in me, and I in him.
He shall dwell on high; his place of defence shall be the munitions of rocks; his bread shall be given `him'; his waters shall be sure.
Incline thine ear, and hear the words of the wise, And apply thy heart unto my knowledge.
Lord, hear my voice: Let thine ears be attentive To the voice of my supplications.
But Jehovah hath been my high tower, And my God the rock of my refuge.
Lord, thou hast been our dwelling-place In all generations.
O God, the nations are come into thine inheritance; Thy holy temple have they defiled; They have laid Jerusalem in heaps.
With God is my salvation and my glory: The rock of my strength, and my refuge, is in God.
But I am poor and needy; `Yet' the Lord thinketh upon me: Thou art my help and my deliverer; Make no tarrying, O my God. Psalm 41 For the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David.
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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.