1 Heb “in your vindication rescue me and deliver me.” Ps 31:1 omits “and deliver me.”
2 Heb “turn toward me your ear.”
3 Ps 31:2 adds “quickly” before “deliver.”
4 Heb “become for me a rocky summit of a dwelling place.” The Hebrew term מָעוֹן (ma’on, “dwelling place”) should probably be emended to מָעוֹז (ma’oz, “refuge”; see Ps 31:2).
5 Heb “to enter continually, you commanded to deliver me.” The Hebrew phrase לָבוֹא תָּמִיד צִוִּיתָ (lavo’ tamid tsivvita, “to enter continually, you commanded”) should be emended to לְבֵית מְצוּדוֹת (lévet métsudot, “a house of strongholds”; see Ps 31:2).
6 You are my high ridge. This metaphor pictures God as a rocky, relatively inaccessible summit, where one would be able to find protection from enemies. See 1 Sam 23:25, 28.

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

In you, O Lord, do I take refuge;

let me never be put to shame!

In your righteousness deliver me and rescue me;

incline your ear to me, and save me!

Be to me a rock of refuge,

to which I may continually come;

you have given the command to save me,

for you are my rock and my fortress.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

In you, Lord, I have taken refuge;

let me never be put to shame.

In your righteousness, rescue me and deliver me;

turn your ear to me and save me.

Be my rock of refuge,

to which I can always go;

give the command to save me,

for you are my rock and my fortress.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

Lord, I seek refuge in you;

let me never be disgraced.

In your justice, rescue and deliver me;

listen closely to me and save me.

Be a rock of refuge for me,

where I can always go.

Give the command to save me,

for you are my rock and fortress.

NLTNew Living Translation

O Lord, I have come to you for protection;

don’t let me be disgraced.

Save me and rescue me,

for you do what is right.

Turn your ear to listen to me,

and set me free.

Be my rock of safety

where I can always hide.

Give the order to save me,

for you are my rock and my fortress.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

In you, O Yahweh, I have taken refuge;

let me never be put to shame.

In your righteousness deliver me and rescue me;

incline your ear to me and save me.

Be for me a rock of refuge to resort to always;

you have ordained to save me,

because you are my rock and my fortress.

KJV 1900King James Version

In thee, O Lord, do I put my trust:

Let me never be put to confusion.

Deliver me in thy righteousness, and cause me to escape:

Incline thine ear unto me, and save me.

Be thou my strong habitation, whereunto I may continually resort:

Thou hast given commandment to save me;

For thou art my rock and my fortress.

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