Psalms 31:2

ear. Figure of speech Anthropopatheia. App-6.

deliver. rescue.

rock. Hebrew. zur. See note on Psalms 18:1; Psalms 18:2.

Related Commentaries of Psalms 31:2

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Bow down thine ear to me - As He does who inclines His ear toward one whom He is willing to hear, or whom He is desirous of hearing. See the note...
Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

XXXI. Prayer in distress strangely intermingled with such confidence in God that the deliverance seems to be already accomplished. Psalms 31:1-...
Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

2. incline thine ear unto me. These words express with how much ardor David’s soul was stimulated to pray. He affects no splendid or ornate...
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Bow down thine ear to me; deliver me speedily: be thou my strong rock, for an house of defence to save me. Bow down thine ear - Listen to my complain...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Bow down thine ear to me; deliver me speedily: be thou my strong rock, for an house of defence to save me. The first strophe. The Psalmist's p...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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 th...
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

My strong rock. — Literally, “Thou art to me for a rock of a stronghold, For a house of fortresses to save me.”
Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Psalms 31:1-24 THE swift transitions of feeling in this psalm may seem strange to colder natures whose lives run smoothly, but reveal a brother-so...
Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

a Cry out of Deep Trouble Psalms 31:1-13 Some have supposed that this psalm was written during the Sauline persecutions; but it is more likely...
G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

In this great song of trust struggling through tears to triumph, we have a fine example of an experience often repeated in the history of the childre...
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

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 b...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Bow down thine ear to me ,.... Which is said after the manner of men, who, when they give attention, and listen to anything, stoop, and incline the...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

Bow down thine ear to me; deliver me speedily: be thou my strong rock, for an house of defence to save me. Ver. 2. Bow down thine ear to me, deliv...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Never let me be ashamed Namely, of my confidence in thy promises. Deliver me in thy righteousness By, or for, or according to thy faithfulness an...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Prayer for Deliverance; Profession of Confidence in God. To the chief music...
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Deliver me speedily, because of the greatness and urgency of my danger, which is even ready to swallow me up.
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

‘Bow down your ear to me' Deliver me speedily. Be you to me a strong rock, A house of defence to save me. For you are my rock and my fortress, T...
Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

INTRODUCTION A psalm, in which the psalmist rises by prayer, from trouble, to lively faith and hope in God. The older interpreters founding on the u...
Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Psalms 31:1 . In thee, O LORD, do I put my trust; Can we say as much as that? However else this Psalm of David may end, it strikes a grand key-no...
Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. This Psalm was meant to be sung, therefore it was dedicated to the chief musician; yet it is a Psalm of whic...
Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Psalms 31:1 . In thee, O LORD, do I put my trust; This is a good beginning; this is the fulcrum which will give us the necessary leverage for lif...
Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Psalms 31:5 . Into thine hand I commit my spirit, the words which our Saviour used on the cross, and the words which St. Stephen used the moment b...
The Biblical Illustrator

In Thee, O Lord, do I put my trust. Man trusting in Jehovah I. Here is man trusting in Jehovah Is great trials. 1. It seems strange that God...
The Biblical Illustrator

Be Thou my strong rook,.. . for Thou art my rock, “Be. .. for Thou art” It sounds strange logic, “Be. .. for Thou art,” and yet it is the logi...
The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION THIS psalm is, in the main, a cry for deliverance out of pressing danger and trouble; but it is interspersed with passages of a mor...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Believer's Humble and Confident Submission to the Hand of God. To the chief musician, for performance in the liturgical part of the Tabernacle...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Bow down Thine ear to me, in the attitude of most careful attention; deliver me speedily, since the need was so urgent. Be Thou my strong Rock, a...
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 John 4:12 ; 1 John 4:15 ; 1 John 4:16 ; 2 Samuel 22:3 ; Deuteronomy 32:31 ; Isaiah 33:16 ; Job 7:21 ; John 6:56 ; Luke 18:8 ; Proverbs 22...

² Bow down thine ear to me; deliver me speedily: be thou my strong rock, for an house of defence to save me.

Related Commentaries of Psalms 31:2

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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