Psalms 31:8

I will instruct you and guide you in this way wherein you shall go: I will fix my eyes upon you. 1

LXX2012 (US English)

In The King James Version

And hast not shut me up into the hand of the enemy: thou hast set my feet in a large room.

In Context

7You are my refuge from the affliction that encompasses me; my joy, to deliver me from them that have compassed me. Pause. 1

9Be you⌃ not as horse and mule, which have no understanding; + 31:9 See Alex. ἄγξεις but you must constrain their jaws with bit and curb, lest they should come near to you. 1

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 26:7and we cried to the Lord our God, and the Lord heard our voice, and saw our humiliation, and our labor, and our affliction.

1 Samuel 17:46this day. And the Lord shall + 17:46 Gr. shut you up. deliver you this day into my hand; and I will kill you, and take away your head from off you, and will give your limbs and the limbs of the army of the Philistines this day to the birds of the sky, and to the wild beasts of the earth; and all the earth shall know that there is a God in Israel.

1 Samuel 26:8And Abessa said to David, The Lord has this day shut up your enemy into your hands, and now I will + 26:8 Gr. double the stroke to him. strike him to the earth with the spear to the ground once for all, and I will not strike him again.

Job 36:16And he has also enticed you out of the mouth of the enemy:

Psalms 88:8O Lord God of hosts, who is like to you? you are mighty, O Lord, and your truth is round about you. 1

Matthew Henry on Psalms 31:2-9

Prayer for Deliverance; Profession of Confidence in God. 1 In thee, O Lord , do I put my trust; let me never be ashamed: deliver me in thy righteousness. 2 Bow down thine ear to me; deliver me speedily: be thou my strong rock, for a house of defence to save me. 3 For thou art my rock and my fortress; therefore for thy name's sake lead me, and guide me. 4 Pull me out of the net that they have laid privily for me: for thou art my strength. 5 Into thine hand I commit my spirit: thou hast redeemed me, O Lord God of… Read the whole commentary →

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