Psalms 31:20

God hides His people in the shelter of His presence, safe from human plots and quarrelsome tongues. It celebrates God's protective refuge.

Cross-references · 20

• Ps 27:5For in the day of trouble he will keep me secretly in his pavilion. In the covert of his tabernacle he will hide me. He will lift me up on a rock.
• Ps 32:7You are my hiding place. You will preserve me from trouble. You will surround me with songs of deliverance. Selah.
• Ps 91:1–4He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High will rest in the shadow of the Almighty.
• Job 5:21You shall be hidden from the scourge of the tongue, neither shall you be afraid of destruction when it comes.
• Ps 64:2–4Hide me from the conspiracy of the wicked, from the noisy crowd of the ones doing evil;
• Ps 140:5The proud have hidden a snare for me, they have spread the cords of a net by the path. They have set traps for me. Selah.
• Ps 140:3They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent. Viper’s poison is under their lips. Selah.
• Ps 10:2In arrogance, the wicked hunt down the weak. They are caught in the schemes that they devise.
• Ps 40:4Blessed is the man who makes Yahweh his trust, and doesn’t respect the proud, nor such as turn aside to lies.
• Exod 18:11Now I know that Yahweh is greater than all gods because of the thing in which they dealt arrogantly against them.”
• Jas 4:6But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, “God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”
• Ps 36:11Don’t let the foot of pride come against me. Don’t let the hand of the wicked drive me away.
• Jas 3:5–6So the tongue is also a little member, and boasts great things. See how a small fire can spread to a large forest!
• 1 Tim 6:4he is conceited, knowing nothing, but obsessed with arguments, disputes, and word battles, from which come envy, strife, insulting, evil suspicions,
• Jas 3:14–16But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your heart, don’t boast and don’t lie against the truth.
• 2 Cor 12:20For I am afraid that by any means, when I come, I might find you not the way I want to, and that I might be found by you as you don’t desire; that by any means there would be strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger, factions, slander, whisperings, proud thoughts, riots;
• Ps 124:5then the proud waters would have gone over our soul.
• Rom 13:13Let us walk properly, as in the day; not in reveling and drunkenness, not in sexual promiscuity and lustful acts, and not in strife and jealousy.
• Ps 86:14God, the proud have risen up against me. A company of violent men have sought after my soul, and they don’t hold regard for you before them.
• Gal 5:20idolatry, sorcery, hatred, strife, jealousies, outbursts of anger, rivalries, divisions, heresies,

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