Psalms 31:1
In you, O LORD, do I put my trust; let me never be ashamed: deliver me in your righteousness.
Updated King James Version
In The King James Version
In thee, O LORD, do I put my trust; let me never be ashamed: deliver me in thy righteousness.
In Context
Cross References
Psalms 22:4Our fathers trusted in you: they trusted, and you did deliver them.
Psalms 43:1Judge me, O God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation: O deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man.
Psalms 143:1Hear my prayer, O LORD, give ear to my supplications: in your faithfulness answer me, and in your righteousness.
Isaiah 49:23And kings shall be your nursing fathers, and their queens your nursing mothers: they shall bow down to you with their face toward the earth, and lick up the dust of your feet; and you shall know that I am the LORD: for they shall not be ashamed that wait for me.
Romans 5:5And hope makes not ashamed; because the love (o. agape) of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Spirit (o. pneuma) which is given unto us.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 31:1
It is probable that David penned this psalm when he was persecuted by Saul; some passages in it agree particularly to the narrow escapes he had, at Keilah ( 1 Sam. xxiii. 13 ), then in the wilderness of Maon, when Saul marched on one side of the hill and he on the other, and, soon after, in the cave in the wilderness of En-gedi; but that it was penned upon any of those occasions we are not told. It is a mixture of prayers, and praises, and professions of confidence in God, all which do well together and are… Read the whole commentary →