Psalms 31:20
You hide people in your presence where it is safe, and protect them from people who plot to kill them. You hide them in safe places from their enemies [MTY] who accuse/insult them.
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Job 5:21God will protect you when people slander [MTY] you; you will not be afraid when many things around you are destroyed.
Psalms 10:2People who are proud gladly cause poor people to suffer. So cause what they do to others to happen to them! May they be caught in the same traps that they set to catch others [MET]!
Psalms 32:7You are like a place where I can hide from my enemies [MET], you protect me from troubles, and you ◄enable me/ put people around me who will enable me► to shout, praising you for saving me from my enemies. (Think about that!)
Psalms 36:8You provide for us plenty of food from the abundant supply [IDM] that you have; your great blessings for us flow like a river.
Psalms 40:4Yahweh is pleased with those who trust him, those who do not trust in idols or join with those who worship those false gods.
Psalms 64:2Protect me from what wicked men are planning to do to me; protect me from that gang of men who do what is evil.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 31:20-24
Triumphant Praise. 19 Oh how great is thy goodness, which thou hast laid up for them that fear thee; which thou hast wrought for them that trust in thee before the sons of men! 20 Thou shalt hide them in the secret of thy presence from the pride of man: thou shalt keep them secretly in a pavilion from the strife of tongues. 21 Blessed be the Lord : for he hath showed me his marvellous kindness in a strong city. 22 For I said in my haste, I am cut off from before thine eyes: nevertheless thou heardest the voice of… Read the whole commentary →