You are my hiding place. You will preserve me from trouble. You will surround me with songs of deliverance. Selah.
Parallel translations
- KJV Thou art my hiding place; thou shalt preserve me from trouble; thou shalt compass me about with songs of deliverance. Selah.
- BSB You are my hiding place. You protect me from trouble; You surround me with songs of deliverance. Selah
- NKJV You are my hiding place; You shall preserve me from trouble; You shall surround me with songs of deliverance. Selah
- NASB You are my hiding place; You keep me from trouble; You surround me with songs of deliverance. Selah
- NLT For you are my hiding place; you protect me from trouble. You surround me with songs of victory. Interlude
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Quick answer
God himself is the believer's hiding place, preserving from trouble and surrounding him with songs of deliverance.
Overview
David moves from exhortation to personal confession, finding refuge not in circumstances but in God's person. The 'songs of deliverance' suggest that rescue produces worship, and that praise itself encircles the protected soul. For the Christian this hiding place is ultimately found in Christ, in whom we are hidden with God (Colossians 3:3).
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 18
- Ps 91:1He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High will rest in the shadow of the Almighty.
- Ps 119:114You are my hiding place and my shield. I hope in your word.
- 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 9:9Yahweh will also be a high tower for the oppressed; a high tower in times of trouble.
- Ps 143:9Deliver me, Yahweh, from my enemies. I flee to you to hide me.
- Ps 31:20In 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.
- 2 Sam 22:1David spoke to Yahweh the words of this song in the day that Yahweh delivered him out of the hand of all his enemies, and out of the hand of Saul,
- Ps 98:1A Psalm. Sing to Yahweh a new song, for he has done marvelous things! His right hand, and his holy arm, have worked salvation for him.
- Rev 7:10They cried with a loud voice, saying, “Salvation be to our God, who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb!”
- Ps 32:10Many sorrows come to the wicked, but loving kindness shall surround him who trusts in Yahweh.
- Ps 40:3He has put a new song in my mouth, even praise to our God. Many shall see it, and fear, and shall trust in Yahweh.
- Col 3:3For you died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.
- Ps 5:12For you will bless the righteous. Yahweh, you will surround him with favor as with a shield.
- Exod 15:1–3Then Moses and the children of Israel sang this song to Yahweh, and said, “I will sing to Yahweh, for he has triumphed gloriously. The horse and his rider he has thrown into the sea.
- Jer 36:26The king commanded Jerahmeel the king’s son, and Seraiah the son of Azriel, and Shelemiah the son of Abdeel, to arrest Baruch the scribe and Jeremiah the prophet; but Yahweh hid them.
- Rev 15:2–3I saw something like a sea of glass mixed with fire, and those who overcame the beast, his image, and the number of his name, standing on the sea of glass, having harps of God.
- Ps 18:5The cords of Sheol were around me. The snares of death came on me.
- Judg 5:1Then Deborah and Barak the son of Abinoam sang on that day, saying,
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