Psalms 31:15
My whole life [MTY] is in your hands; save me from my enemies, from those who pursue me.
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
My times are in thy hand: deliver me from the hand of mine enemies, and from them that persecute me.
In Context
14But Yahweh, I trust in you. You are my God.
16Be kind to me and rescue me because you always faithfully love me.
Cross References
Exodus 40:37If the cloud did not rise, they stayed where they were and did not go on until the cloud rose.
2 Samuel 7:12When your life ends [EUP] and you go to be with your ancestors, I will appoint one of your sons to be king, and I will enable his kingdom to ◄be strong/resist all their enemies►.
Job 24:1“◄Why does Almighty God not set a time when he will judge evil people?/I do not understand why Almighty God does not set a time when he will judge evil people.► [RHQ] Those who know him never [RHQ] see him do that!
Psalms 17:13Yahweh, come and ◄oppose/fight against► my enemies and defeat them! Use your sword to save me from those wicked people!
Psalms 71:10My enemies say that they want to kill me; they plan together how they can do that.
Psalms 116:15Yahweh is very grieved/sad when one of his people dies.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 31:10-19
Sorrowful Complaints; Humble and Believing Prayer. 9 Have mercy upon me, O Lord , for I am in trouble: mine eye is consumed with grief, yea, my soul and my belly. 10 For my life is spent with grief, and my years with sighing: my strength faileth because of mine iniquity, and my bones are consumed. 11 I was a reproach among all mine enemies, but especially among my neighbours, and a fear to mine acquaintance: they that did see me without fled from me. 12 I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind: I am like a broken… Read the whole commentary →