In you, Yahweh, I take refuge. Never let me be disappointed.
Parallel translations
- KJV In thee, O LORD, do I put my trust: let me never be put to confusion.
- BSB In You, O LORD, I have taken refuge; let me never be put to shame.
- 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 Chief Musician. A Psalm by David. In you, Yahweh, I take refuge. Let me never be disappointed. Deliver me in your righteousness.
- Ps 25:2–3My God, I have trusted in you. Don’t let me be shamed. Don’t let my enemies triumph over me.
- 1 Pet 2:6Because it is contained in Scripture, “Behold, I lay in Zion a chief cornerstone, chosen, and precious: He who believes in him will not be disappointed.”
- Ps 22:5They cried to you, and were delivered. They trusted in you, and were not disappointed.
- Jer 17:18Let them be disappointed who persecute me, but let not me be disappointed; let them be dismayed, but don’t let me be dismayed; bring on them the day of evil, and destroy them with double destruction.
- Isa 45:17Israel will be saved by Yahweh with an everlasting salvation. You will not be disappointed nor confounded to ages everlasting.
- Ps 125:1A Song of Ascents. Those who trust in Yahweh are as Mount Zion, which can’t be moved, but remains forever.
- Ps 146:5Happy is he who has the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in Yahweh, his God:
- 1 Chr 5:20They were helped against them, and the Hagrites were delivered into their hand, and all who were with them; for they cried to God in the battle, and he was answered them, because they put their trust in him.
- Rom 9:33even as it is written, “Behold, I lay in Zion a stumbling stone and a rock of offense; and no one who believes in him will be disappointed.”
- 2 Kgs 18:5He trusted in Yahweh, the God of Israel; so that after him was no one like him among all the kings of Judah, nor among them that were before 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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