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Psalms 31

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1For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David. In you, Yahweh, I take refuge. Let me never be disappointed. Deliver me in your righteousness. ✦ 2Bow down your ear to me. Deliver me speedily. Be to me a strong rock, a house of defense to save me. ✦ 3For you are my rock and my fortress, therefore for your name’s sake lead me and guide me. ✦ 4Pluck me out of the net that they have laid secretly for me, for you are my stronghold. ✦ 5Into your hand I commend my spirit. You redeem me, Yahweh, God of truth. ✦ 6I hate those who regard lying vanities, but I trust in Yahweh. ✦ 7I will be glad and rejoice in your loving kindness, for you have seen my affliction. You have known my soul in adversities. ✦ 8You have not shut me up into the hand of the enemy. You have set my feet in a large place. ✦ 9Have mercy on me, Yahweh, for I am in distress. My eye, my soul, and my body waste away with grief. ✦ 10For my life is spent with sorrow, my years with sighing. My strength fails because of my iniquity. My bones are wasted away. ✦ 11Because 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. ✦ 12I am forgotten from their hearts like a dead man. I am like broken pottery. ✦ 13For I have heard the slander of many, terror on every side, while they conspire together against me, they plot to take away my life. ✦ 14But I trust in you, Yahweh. I said, “You are my God.” ✦ 15My times are in your hand. Deliver me from the hand of my enemies, and from those who persecute me. ✦ 16Make your face to shine on your servant. Save me in your loving kindness. ✦ 17Let me not be disappointed, Yahweh, for I have called on you. Let the wicked be disappointed. Let them be silent in Sheol. ✦ 18Let the lying lips be mute, which speak against the righteous insolently, with pride and contempt. ✦ 19Oh 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! ✦ 20In 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. ✦ 21Praise be to Yahweh, for he has shown me his marvelous loving kindness in a strong city. ✦ 22As 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. ✦ 23Oh love Yahweh, all you his saints! Yahweh preserves the faithful, and fully recompenses him who behaves arrogantly. ✦ 24Be strong, and let your heart take courage, all you who hope in Yahweh. ✦

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Where this chapter connects

Ps 71 ·9Ps 88 ·8Ps 25 ·7Ps 143 ·7Matt 26 ·6Isa 49 ·5Ps 6 ·5Ps 140 ·5

Christ at the center

The Psalms are Christ's own prayer book and a gallery of his portraits — the suffering one of Psalm 22, the risen Lord of Psalm 16, the priest-king of Psalm 110, the Son to whom the nations are given.

How Psalms 31 points to him is part of the one story that runs through all Scripture — meet Jesus at the heart of the web, or follow a trail that traces him from Genesis to Revelation.

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  • ★ Start hereAudioThrough the WordThrough the Word · ~10 min/chapter · Free · evangelical

    A clear ~10-minute audio teaching for every one of the Bible's 1,189 chapters — the most systematic free way to study chapter by chapter.

  • ★ Start hereCommentaryPsalms (Tyndale OT Commentaries)Derek Kidner · Paid · evangelical

    Concise, theologically rich, and wonderfully accessible — the best place to start on the Psalms.

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  • SermonChuck Smith — C2000 SeriesChuck Smith · Free · evangelical

    Free verse-by-verse audio through the entire Bible from the founder of Calvary Chapel.

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  • VideoBibleProject — Psalms videosBibleProject · Lay · Free · evangelical

    Free animated overview and word-study videos for this book.

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  • CommentaryEnduring Word — Psalms 31David Guzik · Lay · Free · evangelical

    Readable, verse-by-verse exposition of the whole chapter.

  • CommentaryMatthew Henry on PsalmsMatthew Henry · Pastoral · Free · evangelical

    The beloved Puritan exposition of this whole book — warm, devotional, and verse by verse (free, CCEL).

  • ReferenceBlue Letter Bible — Psalms 31Blue Letter Bible · Seminary · Free

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