Psalm 31:8

Translations

Modern

You have not delivered me to the enemy; You have set my feet in the open.

Traditional

And hast not shut me up into the hand of the enemy: thou hast set my feet in a large room.

Literal

And You did not shut me up in the hand of the enemy, You set my feet on a broad place.

Latin

Nec conclusisti me in manibus inimici: statuisti in loco spatioso pedes meos.

Original

Hebrew

English

You have not delivered me to the enemy; You have set my feet in the open.

Notes

Psalms 31:8

in the open: This means a wide area, unlike a narrow or tight place that causes distress (see Psalm 18:19).

Psalms 31:6–8

Trusting the Lord means believing he cares about our well-being.

Psalms 31:1–24

The psalmist urges the faithful to seek safety in the Lord and wait for his salvation. After experiencing something like death, he shares how the Lord remained faithful. This psalm points ahead to the suffering of Jesus (Luke 23:46).

Theme notes and profiles

David Wisdom Psalms

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Job 36:16
Indeed, He drew you from the jaws of distress to a spacious and broad place, to a table full of richness.
Psalm 4:1
For the choirmaster. With stringed instruments. A Psalm of David. Answer me when I call, O God of my righteousness! You have relieved my distress; show me grace and hear my prayer.
Psalm 18:19
He brought me out into the open; He rescued me because He delighted in me.
Deuteronomy 32:30
How could one man pursue a thousand, or two put ten thousand to flight, unless their Rock had sold them, unless the LORD had given them up?
1 Samuel 24:18
And you have declared this day how you have treated me well, for when the LORD delivered me into your hand, you did not kill me.
1 Samuel 17:46
This day the LORD will deliver you into my hand. This day I will strike you down, cut off your head, and give the carcasses of the Philistine army to the birds of the air and the creatures of the earth. Then the whole world will know that there is a God in Israel.
Isaiah 19:4
I will deliver the Egyptians into the hands of a harsh master, and a fierce king will rule over them,” declares the Lord GOD of Hosts.
Psalm 88:8
You have removed my friends from me; You have made me repulsive to them; I am confined and cannot escape.
Job 16:11
God has delivered me to unjust men; He has thrown me to the clutches of the wicked.
1 Samuel 26:8
Abishai said to David, “Today God has delivered your enemy into your hand. Now, therefore, please let me thrust the spear through him into the ground with one stroke. I will not need to strike him twice!”

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