Psalms 31:8

You have not shut me up into the hand of the enemy. You have set my feet in a large place.

World English Bible British with Deuterocanon

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

7I will be glad and rejoice in your loving kindness, for you have seen my affliction. You have known my soul in adversities.

9Have mercy on me, LORD, for I am in distress. My eye, my soul, and my body waste away with grief.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 26:7Then we cried to the LORD, the God of our fathers. The LORD heard our voice, and saw our affliction, our toil, and our oppression.

1 Samuel 17:46Today, the LORD will deliver you into my hand. I will strike you and take your head from off you. I will give the dead bodies of the army of the Philistines today to the birds of the sky and to the wild animals of the earth, that all the earth may know that there is a God in Israel,

1 Samuel 26:8Then Abishai said to David, “God has delivered up your enemy into your hand today. Now therefore please let me strike him with the spear to the earth at one stroke, and I will not strike him the second time.”

Job 36:16Yes, he would have allured you out of distress, into a wide place, where there is no restriction. That which is set on your table would be full of fatness.

Psalms 10:14But you do see trouble and grief. You consider it to take it into your hand. You help the victim and the fatherless.

Psalms 88:8You have taken my friends from me. You have made me an abomination to them. I am confined, and I can’t escape.

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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