Psalm 31:4 KJV

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Psalms 31:3-4

David believed God would free him from his present entangling problems because the Lord had promised to help the righteous in their afflictions. read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Psalms 31:3-8

2. David’s confidence in God’s love 31:3-8The psalmist’s confidence that the Lord would protect him was strong. read more

John Dummelow

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 31:1-24

The writer of this Ps. gratefully records God’s past deliverances (Psalms 31:1-8), appeals to God for help against the enemies who assail him in the present (Psalms 31:9-18), and ends with fervent thankfulness and serene assurance (Psalms 31:19-24). The language suggests a later age than David’s, and has many parallels with the book of Jeremiah, the most evident being in the words ’terror on every side’ (Psalms 31:13, Jeremiah 20:10). These parallels are mostly in the central section (Psalms... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Psalms 31:4

(4) The net.—This image is a common one in the Psalms. (Comp. Psalms 10:9, &c)Laid privily.—Literally, hidden. Translate still by the future, thou wilt pull me out. read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Dictionary of Texts - Psalms 31:1-24

The Large Room Psalms 31:8 To many people these seem strange words to come from the lips of age and experience. It is youth and inexperience that find the world a large room. The writer of those words had left his childhood far behind him. He had entered into manhood's inheritance of duty and responsibility. He had been many a time over-caught in the coil of adverse circumstance; he had sorrowed and suffered and sinned; he had faced temptation and found bitter proof of his own weakness; he had... read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Bible Commentary - Psalms 31:1-24

Psalms 31:1-24THE swift transitions of feeling in this psalm may seem strange to colder natures whose lives run smoothly, but reveal a brother-soul to those who have known what it is to ride on the top of the wave and then to go down into its trough. What is peculiar to the psalm is not only the inclusion of the whole gamut of feeling, but the force with which each key is struck and the persistence through all of the one ground tone of cleaving to Jehovah. The poetic temperament passes quickly... read more

Arno Clemens Gaebelein

Arno Gaebelein's Annotated Bible - Psalms 31:1-24

Psalms 31:0 The Enemies of Israel and the Victory 1. The prayer for deliverance (Psalms 31:1-18 ) 2. The victory (Psalms 31:19-24 ) Psalms 31:1-18 . Many saints have turned to this Psalm for encouragement in time of trouble and sorrow. And there is much in it which helps the trusting soul. Notice the different names of Jehovah--my rock--my house of defense--my strong rock--my fortress--my strength--God of truth. But like the previous Psalms this one also unfolds prophetically the... read more

John Calvin

Geneva Study Bible - Psalms 31:4

31:4 Pull me out of the {b} net that they have laid privily for me: for thou [art] my strength.(b) Preserve me from the crafty counsels and subtle practise of my enemies. read more

James Gray

James Gray's Concise Bible Commentary - Psalms 31:1-24

Psalms 25:0 In the Hebrew this prayer is arranged as an acrostic, i.e., the first word of each verse begins with a letter in alphabetical order from A-to-Z. Hereafter we shall not give as much attention to every psalm as we have thus far, but trust the reader to do the analyzing after the examples given. The purpose of this book is not so much textual explanation as a stimulus to Bible study in a broader sense, and it is assumed that the reader has been studying the Bible side by side with the... read more

Robert Hawker

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary - Psalms 31:1-5

The last verse of these five becomes a key to open to us the four preceding. Nothing can be more evident than that the whole must have been written by David, under the spirit of prophecy, in direct reference to the Lord Jesus Christ; for Christ closed his ministry on the cross with those very words: Luke 23:46 : as if to show to whom this scripture pointed. How delightful is it to view Christ in this scripture! We see him here as our Surety; we behold him at prayer, agreeably to the covenant... read more