Psalm 31:3-8 NIV

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Psalms 31:1-8

Faith and prayer must go together. He that believes, let his pray?I believe, therefore I have spoken: and he that prays, let him believe, for the prayer of faith is the prevailing prayer. We have both here. I. David, in distress, is very earnest with God in prayer for succour and relief. This eases a burdened spirit, fetches in promised mercies, and wonderfully supports and comforts the soul in the expectation of them. He prays, 1. That God would deliver him (Ps. 31:1), that his life might be... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 31:3

For thou art my rock and my fortress ,.... What he prayed for he knew him to be, and to have been in times past, and could claim his interest in him; and therefore entreats that he would appear to be to him what he was in himself, and what he had been to him; therefore for thy name's sake lead me, and guide me ; either as a shepherd does his flock, gently, as they are able to bear it; into the green pastures of the word and ordinances, and beside the still waters of divine love, and to... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 31:4

Pull me out of the net that they have laid privily for me ,.... The Ziphites, and Saul, and his men; the former intending treacherously to betray him, and the latter encompassing him about in order to take him; and such was his danger and difficulty, that he saw none but God could deliver him; and he it is that breaks the nets of men, and the snares of the devil, which they secretly lay for the people of God, that they may stumble, and fall, and be taken, and delivers them out of them; ... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 31:5

Into thine hand I commit my spirit ,.... Either his life, as to a faithful Creator and Preserver, who was the God of his life, gave him it, and upheld his soul in it; or his soul, and the eternal salvation of it, which he committed into the hand of the Lord his Redeemer, where he knew it would be safe, and out of whose hands none can pluck; or this he might say, as apprehensive of immediate death, through the danger he was in; and therefore commits his spirit into the hands of God, to whom... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 31:6

I have hated them that regard lying vanities ,.... Soothsaying and divination, as Aben Ezra and others think; made use of by kings, and generals of armies, to know when it was proper to go out to war, and what success they should have; see Ezekiel 21:21 ; but such men and their practices David abhorred; he took no such methods when in distress, but applied to the Lord, and trusted in him; or rather idol gods, as Jarchi, and others, who are vanity, and the work of errors, and are nothing in... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 31:7

I will be glad, and rejoice in thy mercy ,.... Both because of the nature of it, which is large and abundant, free and sovereign, from everlasting to everlasting, and is communicated in and through Christ, and is a good ground of hope and trust; and because of the effects of it, or what it has produced; for to it are owing the covenant of grace, and all the sure mercies of it; the mission of Christ, and redemption by him; regeneration, and the forgiveness of sins, and even eternal life and... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 31:8

And hast not shut me up into the hand of the enemy ,.... When in Keilah, in the wilderness of Ziph, and Maon, and encompassed about by Saul and his army, 1 Samuel 23:7 ; nor does the Lord suffer his people to be shut up under the power of sin and Satan, so that they cannot come forth in the exercise of grace, and the discharge of duty: but he brings their souls out of prison, that they may praise his name; thou hast set my feet in a large room ; at full liberty from his enemies; Saul... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 31:4

Pull me out of the net - They have hemmed me in on every side, and I cannot escape but by miracle. read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 31:5

Into thine hand I commit my spirit - These words, as they stand in the Vulgate, were in the highest credit among our ancestors; by whom they were used in all dangers, difficulties, and in the article of death. In manus tuas, Domine, commendo spiritum meum, was used by the sick when about to expire, if they were sensible; and if not, the priest said it in their behalf. In forms of prayer for sick and dying persons, these words were frequently inserted in Latin, though all the rest of the... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 31:6

I have hated them - That is, I have abominated their ways. Idolaters are the persons of whom David speaks. I trust in the Lord - While they trust in vanities vain things; (for an idol is nothing in the worid); and in lying vanities; (for much is promised and nothing given); I trust in Jehovah, who is God all-sufficient, and is my Shepherd, and therefore I shall lack no good thing. read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Psalms 31:1-8

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 31:3

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 31:4

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 31:5

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 31:6

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 31:7

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 31:8

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 31:4

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 31:5

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 31:6

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