In You, O LORD, I have taken refuge; let me never be put to shame.
Parallel translations
- WEB In you, Yahweh, I take refuge. Never let me be disappointed.
- KJV In thee, O LORD, do I put my trust: let me never be put to confusion.
- NKJV In You, O Lord, I put my trust; Let me never be put to shame.
- NASB In You, Lord, I have taken refuge; Let me never be put to shame.
- NLT O Lord, I have come to you for protection; don’t let me be disgraced.
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Quick answer
The psalmist takes refuge in the Lord and asks never to be put to shame. It expresses lifelong trust that God will not disappoint those who rely on him.
Overview
This psalm, likely the prayer of an aging believer, opens by taking refuge in Yahweh and asking never to be ashamed. To take refuge in God is to stake everything on his faithfulness. Those who trust in the Lord, and supremely in Christ the cornerstone, will never be put to shame (Romans 9:33; 1 Peter 2:6).
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 11
- Ps 31:1–3For the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. In You, O LORD, I have taken refuge; let me never be put to shame; save me by Your righteousness.
- Ps 25:2–3in You, my God, I trust. Do not let me be put to shame; do not let my enemies exult over me.
- 1 Pet 2:6For it stands in Scripture: “See, I lay in Zion a stone, a chosen and precious cornerstone; and the one who believes in Him will never be put to shame.”
- Ps 22:5They cried out to You and were set free; they trusted in You and were not disappointed.
- Jer 17:18Let my persecutors be put to shame, but do not let me be put to shame. Let them be terrified, but do not let me be terrified. Bring upon them the day of disaster and shatter them with double destruction.
- Isa 45:17But Israel will be saved by the LORD with an everlasting salvation; you will not be put to shame or humiliated, to ages everlasting.
- Ps 125:1A song of ascents. Those who trust in the LORD are like Mount Zion. It cannot be moved; it abides forever.
- Ps 146:5Blessed is he whose help is the God of Jacob, whose hope is in the LORD his God,
- 1 Chr 5:20And because they cried out to God in battle, they were helped against their enemies, and the Hagrites and all their allies were delivered into their hands. Because they put their trust in God, He answered their prayers.
- Rom 9:33as it is written: “See, I lay in Zion a stone of stumbling and a rock of offense; and the one who believes in Him will never be put to shame.”
- 2 Kgs 18:5Hezekiah trusted in the LORD, the God of Israel. No king of Judah was like him, either before him or after him.
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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.
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