Psalms 31:2

David asks God to listen, deliver him quickly, and be his strong rock and fortress. It pleads urgently for God's protection.

Cross-references · 22

• Ps 71:2–3Deliver me in your righteousness, and rescue me. Turn your ear to me, and save me.
• Ps 86:1A Prayer by David. Hear, Yahweh, and answer me, for I am poor and needy.
• Ps 102:2Don’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.
• Ps 130:2Lord, hear my voice. Let your ears be attentive to the voice of my petitions.
• 1 Jn 4:15–16Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God remains in him, and he in God.
• Deut 32:31For their rock is not as our Rock, even our enemies themselves concede.
• Ps 69:17Don’t hide your face from your servant, for I am in distress. Answer me speedily!
• Ps 91:9Because you have made Yahweh your refuge, and the Most High your dwelling place,
• Isa 33:16he will dwell on high. His place of defense will be the fortress of rocks. His bread will be supplied. His waters will be sure.
• Ps 90:1A Prayer by Moses, the man of God. Lord, you have been our dwelling place for all generations.
• Ps 18:1–2For the Chief Musician. By David the servant of Yahweh, who spoke to Yahweh the words of this song in the day that Yahweh delivered him from the hand of all his enemies, and from the hand of Saul. He said, I love you, Yahweh, my strength.
• 1 Jn 4:12No one has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God remains in us, and his love has been perfected in us.
• Ps 94:22But Yahweh has been my high tower, my God, the rock of my refuge.
• Ps 62:7With God is my salvation and my honor. The rock of my strength, and my refuge, is in God.
• Job 7:21Why do you not pardon my disobedience, and take away my iniquity? For now shall I lie down in the dust. You will seek me diligently, but I shall not be.”
• Ps 143:7Hurry 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.
• 2 Sam 22:3God is my rock in whom I take refuge; my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower, and my refuge. My savior, you save me from violence.
• Luke 18:8I tell you that he will avenge them quickly. Nevertheless, when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on the earth?”
• Prov 22:17Turn your ear, and listen to the words of the wise. Apply your heart to my teaching.
• Ps 40:17But I am poor and needy. May the Lord think about me. You are my help and my deliverer. Don’t delay, my God.
• John 6:56He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood lives in me, and I in him.
• Ps 79:1A Psalm by Asaph. God, the nations have come into your inheritance. They have defiled your holy temple. They have laid Jerusalem in heaps.

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