Psalms 31
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Confidence in God
Verse 1
WEB For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David. In you, Yahweh, I take refuge. Let me never be disappointed. Deliver me in your righteousness.
KJV To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. In thee, O LORD, do I put my trust; let me never be ashamed: deliver me in thy righteousness.
TSK A. M. 2943. B.C. 1061. thee: ps 22:4,5, ps 25:2, ps 71:1,2, isa 49:23, ro 5:5, ro 10:11; deliver: ps 7:8,9, ps 43:1, ps 143:1,11,12, da 9:16
Verse 2
WEB Bow down your ear to me. Deliver me speedily. Be to me a strong rock, a house of defense to save me.
KJV Bow down thine ear to me; deliver me speedily: be thou my strong rock, for an house of defence to save me.
TSK Bow: ps 71:2, ps 86:1, ps 130:2, pr 22:17; deliver: ps 40:17, ps 69:17, ps 79:1, ps 102:2, ps 143:7, job 7:21, lu 18:8; my strong rock: ps 18:1,2, ps 62:7, ps 94:22, de 32:31, 2sa 22:3; an house: ps 71:3, ps 90:1, ps 91:9, isa 33:16, joh 6:56, 1jo 4:12,15,16
Verse 3
WEB For you are my rock and my fortress, therefore for your name’s sake lead me and guide me.
KJV For thou art my rock and my fortress; therefore for thy name's sake lead me, and guide me.
TSK for thy: ps 23:2,3, ps 25:11, ps 79:9, jos 7:9, jer 14:7, eze 36:21,22, eph 1:12; lead: ps 25:5,9, ps 43:3, ps 139:24, ps 143:10,11, ne 9:12,19, isa 49:10, lu 1:79, joh 16:13
Verse 5
WEB Into your hand I commend my spirit. You redeem me, Yahweh, God of truth.
KJV Into thine hand I commit my spirit: thou hast redeemed me, O LORD God of truth.
TSK Into: lu 23:46, ac 7:59, 2ti 1:12; thou: ps 71:23, ps 130:8, ge 48:16, le 25:48, isa 50:2, tit 2:14, 1pe 1:18,19, re 5:9; God: de 32:4, 2ti 2:13, tit 1:2, heb 6:18
Verse 6
WEB I hate those who regard lying vanities, but I trust in Yahweh.
KJV I have hated them that regard lying vanities: but I trust in the LORD.
TSK hated: ps 26:5, ps 139:2; lying: ps 24:4, ps 96:7-9, 1ch 16:28,29, jer 10:8,15, joh 2:8, ro 1:21, 1co 8:4, 1co 10:20
Verse 7
WEB I will be glad and rejoice in your loving kindness, for you have seen my affliction. You have known my soul in adversities.
KJV I will be glad and rejoice in thy mercy: for thou hast considered my trouble; thou hast known my soul in adversities;
TSK I will: ps 13:5, isa 49:13, jer 33:11; for: ps 9:13, ps 25:18, ps 71:20, ps 119:153, ne 9:32, job 10:9, la 3:50, la 5:1; known: ps 1:6, ps 142:3, job 23:10, isa 43:2, isa 63:9,16, joh 10:27-30, 1co 8:3, ga 4:9, 2ti 2:19
Verse 8
WEB You have not shut me up into the hand of the enemy. You have set my feet in a large place.
KJV And hast not shut me up into the hand of the enemy: thou hast set my feet in a large room.
TSK shut me: ps 88:8, de 32:30, 1sa 17:46, 1sa 24:18, 1sa 26:8, job 16:11, isa 19:4; set: ps 4:1, ps 18:19, job 36:16
Prayer in trouble
Verse 9
WEB Have mercy on me, Yahweh, for I am in distress. My eye, my soul, and my body waste away with grief.
KJV Have mercy upon me, O LORD, for I am in trouble: mine eye is consumed with grief, yea, my soul and my belly.
TSK mine: ps 6:7, ps 88:9, job 17:7, la 4:17, la 5:17; my soul: ps 6:1,2, ps 22:14,15, ps 38:1-10, ps 44:25, ps 73:14,26, ps 88:3-5, ps 102:3-5, ps 107:10, job 33:19-22
Verse 10
WEB For my life is spent with sorrow, my years with sighing. My strength fails because of my iniquity. My bones are wasted away.
KJV For my life is spent with grief, and my years with sighing: my strength faileth because of mine iniquity, and my bones are consumed.
TSK my life: ps 78:33, ps 88:15, ps 102:3-28, job 3:24, ro 9:2; strength: ps 71:9; bones: ps 32:3,4, ps 102:3-5
Verse 11
WEB Because of all my adversaries I have become utterly contemptible to my neighbors, A fear to my acquaintances. Those who saw me on the street fled from me.
KJV I was a reproach among all mine enemies, but especially among my neighbours, and a fear to mine acquaintance: they that did see me without fled from me.
TSK I was: ps 22:6, ps 69:19,20, ps 89:50,51, isa 49:7, isa 53:4,5, mt 27:39-44, ro 15:3, heb 11:36, heb 13:13, 1pe 4:14; especially: ps 38:11, ps 41:8,9, ps 88:8,18, job 19:13,14, jer 12:6, mic 7:6, mt 10:21,22; a fear: ps 64:8, job 6:21-23, mt 26:56,74, 2ti 4:16
Verse 12
WEB I am forgotten from their hearts like a dead man. I am like broken pottery.
KJV I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind: I am like a broken vessel.
TSK forgotten: ps 88:4,5, isa 38:11,12; a broken vessel: ps 2:9, ps 119:83, isa 30:14, ro 9:21,22, re 2:27
Verse 13
WEB For I have heard the slander of many, terror on every side, while they conspire together against me, they plot to take away my life.
KJV For I have heard the slander of many: fear was on every side: while they took counsel together against me, they devised to take away my life.
TSK I have: ps 55:10, ps 101:5, 1sa 22:8-10, 1sa 24:9, jer 20:10, lu 23:1,2,5; fear: ps 56:1-3, ps 57:4, jer 6:25, jer 20:3,4, la 2:22; while: 1sa 19:10-17, 1sa 20:33, 1sa 23:19,20, 2sa 17:1-4, jer 11:19, mt 26:3,4,59, mt 27:1
Verse 14
WEB But I trust in you, Yahweh. I said, “You are my God.”
KJV But I trusted in thee, O LORD: I said, Thou art my God.
TSK Thou: ps 16:1,2, ps 18:2, ps 22:1,2, ps 43:5, ps 56:3,4, ps 63:1, ps 71:12,22, mt 26:39,42, mt 27:46, joh 20:17
Verse 15
WEB My times are in your hand. Deliver me from the hand of my enemies, and from those who persecute me.
KJV My times are in thy hand: deliver me from the hand of mine enemies, and from them that persecute me.
TSK My times: ps 116:15, 1sa 26:10, 2sa 7:12, job 24:1, ec 3:1-8, lu 9:51, joh 7:6,30, joh 12:27, joh 13:1, joh 17:1, ac 1:7, ac 23:11, ac 27:24, 2ti 4:6, 2pe 1:14; deliver: ps 17:8,9,13, ps 71:10-12, ps 142:6, ps 143:3,12, jer 15:20,21
Verse 16
WEB Make your face to shine on your servant. Save me in your loving kindness.
KJV Make thy face to shine upon thy servant: save me for thy mercies' sake.
TSK Make: ps 4:6, ps 30:7, ps 67:1, ps 80:3,7,19, nu 6:25,26, da 9:17; save: ps 6:4, ps 51:1, ps 106:45, da 9:9,18, ro 9:15,23, eph 1:6,7, eph 2:4-7
Verse 17
WEB Let me not be disappointed, Yahweh, for I have called on you. Let the wicked be disappointed. Let them be silent in Sheol.
KJV Let me not be ashamed, O LORD; for I have called upon thee: let the wicked be ashamed, and let them be silent in the grave.
TSK Let me: ps 31:1, ps 25:2,3, ps 34:5, ps 69:6,7, isa 50:6,7, joe 2:26,27; wicked: ps 6:10, ps 35:4,26, ps 40:14,15, ps 70:2,3, ps 71:24, ps 83:16,17, isa 41:11,12, isa 45:16,17, isa 65:13,14, jer 20:11, da 12:2; them: ps 115:17, 1sa 2:9, mt 22:12,13
Verse 18
WEB Let the lying lips be mute, which speak against the righteous insolently, with pride and contempt.
KJV Let the lying lips be put to silence; which speak grievous things proudly and contemptuously against the righteous.
TSK the lying: ps 12:3, ps 59:12, ps 63:11, ps 140:9-11, pr 12:19, isa 54:17, joh 8:44, re 21:8, re 22:15; speak: ps 64:3,4, ps 123:3,4, 1sa 2:3, 2ch 32:16, isa 37:22-24, mt 10:25, mt 12:24, joh 8:48, ac 25:7; grievous things: ps 94:4, jude 1:15
Praise for God's goodness
Verse 19
WEB Oh how great is your goodness, which you have laid up for those who fear you, which you have worked for those who take refuge in you, before the sons of men!
KJV Oh how great is thy goodness, which thou hast laid up for them that fear thee; which thou hast wrought for them that trust in thee before the sons of men!
TSK Oh: ps 36:7-10, ps 73:1,24-26, ps 145:7-9, isa 64:4, la 3:23-25, 1co 2:9, 1jo 3:1,2; laid up: ps 16:11, isa 35:10, col 3:2-4, heb 10:34, jas 2:5, 1pe 1:4,5; wrought: ps 68:28, ps 126:2,3, nu 23:23, isa 26:12, joh 3:21, ac 15:12, 2co 5:5
Verse 20
WEB In the shelter of your presence you will hide them from the plotting of man. You will keep them secretly in a dwelling away from the strife of tongues.
KJV Thou shalt hide them in the secret of thy presence from the pride of man: thou shalt keep them secretly in a pavilion from the strife of tongues.
TSK hide: ps 27:5, ps 32:7, ps 64:2, ps 91:1-4; from: ps 10:2, ps 36:11, ps 40:4, ps 86:14, ps 124:5, ps 140:5, ex 18:11, jas 4:6; the strife: ps 64:2-4, ps 140:3, job 5:21, ro 13:13, 2co 12:20, ga 5:20, 1ti 6:4, jas 3:5,6,14-16
Verse 22
WEB As for me, I said in my haste, “I am cut off from before your eyes.” Nevertheless you heard the voice of my petitions when I cried to you.
KJV For I said in my haste, I am cut off from before thine eyes: nevertheless thou heardest the voice of my supplications when I cried unto thee.
TSK I said: ps 116:11, 1sa 23:26, 1sa 27:1; I am: ps 31:17, ps 88:16, isa 6:5, isa 38:10-12, isa 49:14, job 35:14, la 3:54,55, eze 37:11, jon 2:4; nevertheless: ps 6:9, 2ch 33:11-13, jon 2:7-9, heb 5:7
Verse 23
WEB Oh love Yahweh, all you his saints! Yahweh preserves the faithful, and fully recompenses him who behaves arrogantly.
KJV O love the LORD, all ye his saints: for the LORD preserveth the faithful, and plentifully rewardeth the proud doer.
TSK O love: ps 34:9, ps 97:10, de 10:12, de 30:16, isa 56:6, mr 12:23, 1th 4:1; saints: ps 30:4, ps 89:7, ps 97:10, ps 145:10, re 19:5,6; for the: de 33:3, 1sa 2:9, joh 10:27-30, jude 1:1; plentifully: ps 54:5, ps 94:2, re 18:6
Verse 24
WEB Be strong, and let your heart take courage, all you who hope in Yahweh.
KJV Be of good courage, and he shall strengthen your heart, all ye that hope in the LORD.
TSK Be of: ps 27:14, isa 35:3,4, lu 22:31,32, heb 12:12,13, jas 5:10,11; shall: ps 29:11, ps 138:3, col 1:11; all ye: ps 146:5, ro 15:12,13, 1pe 1:21