Psalm 31:1

F.B. Meyer's 'Through the Bible' Commentary - Psalms 31:1-13

a Cry out of Deep Trouble Psalms 31:1-13 Some have supposed that this psalm was written during the Sauline persecutions; but it is more likely that it dates from Absalom’s rebellion. It alternates between the depths of despondency and the heights of sublime faith, and well befits those who walk in darkness and have no light, Isaiah 50:10 . It sounds as if the soul were on a wind-swept moor, with no shelter from the storm. All is dark and wild; and it dreads to be caught in the entangling... read more

G. Campbell Morgan

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible - Psalms 31:1-24

In this great song of trust struggling through tears to triumph, we have a fine example of an experience often repeated in the history of the children of faith. There are three divisions. In the first (1-8), the double sense of trust and trials clearly manifest. In the second (9-18), the trial seems for a time almost to have overcome the trust, so keen is the consciousness thereof. In the last (19-24), trust has completely triumphed and the sense of the singer is the sense of perfect safety in... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 31:1

. ‘In you, O YHWH, do I take refuge, Let me never be put to shame, Deliver me in your righteousness. The Psalmist opens by affirming his confidence in YHWH, and asking Him to be his refuge. He then asks that He will never have to face the shame that would result if God did not act as his refuge, and follows it up by asking YHWH in His righteousness to deliver him. He thus puts himself squarely on the side of righteousness, for that is the grounds on which he expects YHWH to deliver him. The... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 31:1-24

XXXI. Prayer in distress strangely intermingled with such confidence in God that the deliverance seems to be already accomplished. Psalms 31:1-Leviticus : a . Recurs with textual variants in Psalms 71:1-Leviticus :. Psalms 31:5 . The poet commends his spirit to God, that God may preserve it from death. In Luke 22:46 the application is different.— truth: i.e. faithfulness. Psalms 31:15 . The crises of life are in the hands of Yahweh, and Israel has, therefore, no room for such comfort as, ... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Psalms 31:1

Let me never be ashamed, to wit, of my confidence in thy promises. In thy righteousness, i.e. by or for; or, according to thy faithfulness and goodness; both which come oft under the name of righteousness. read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Psalms 31:1-24

INTRODUCTIONA psalm, in which the psalmist rises by prayer, from trouble, to lively faith and hope in God. The older interpreters founding on the use of the same word in Psalms 31:2-3 (Heb.), and 1 Samuel 23:25, for the most part, refer the psalm to the time when David fled from Saul into the wilderness of Maon. Ewald, Hitzig, and others attribute it to Jeremiah, chiefly because of its plaintive character, and from the fact that certain expressions found in this psalm are also found in Jeremiah... read more

C.I. Scofield

Scofield's Reference Notes - Psalms 31:1

trust (See Scofield " :-") . read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Psalms 31:1-24

Let's turn now in our Bibles to Psalms 31:1-24 . This thirty-first psalm is actually divided into three sections. The first one covering the first eight verses, the second one covering verses Psalms 31:9-18 , and Psalms 31:1-24 : ,the final section from nineteen to the end of the psalm. In the first section of the psalm, with David it is sort of a mixture between trust and trial. In the next section the trial is overcome by the trust. And then in the final section it is the triumph of the... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Psalms 31:1-24

Psalms 31:5 . Into thine hand I commit my spirit, the words which our Saviour used on the cross, and the words which St. Stephen used the moment before his death, when addressing the Lord Jesus; and most assuredly all the saints would wish to die with the same sentiments, and uttering the same words. Psalms 31:6 . Lying vanities. The prophets often use the words of Moses, Deuteronomy 32:0., in designating idols by the epithet “vanities,” because the gentiles knew not what they... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Psalms 31:1-8

Psalms 31:1-8In Thee, O Lord, do I put my trust. Man trusting in JehovahI. Here is man trusting in Jehovah Is great trials.1. It seems strange that God should allow a man who trusts in Him to become involved in trials. Love is the reason. He knows that oven the best of His children are so fractious and wayward that they need the chastening rod.2. It seems strange that a man should be able to trust God when in trial. Good men can, and have done so. Job: Paul.II. Here is man trusting in Jehovah... read more

Group of Brands