Psalms 31:17 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁷Let me not be ashamed, O LORD; for I have called upon thee: let the wicked be ashamed, and let them be silent in the grave.

Psalms 31:17 —

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Cross-References

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Psalms 25:2-3
O my God, I trust in thee: let me not be ashamed, let not mine enemies triumph over me. …
Jeremiah 20:11
But the LORD is with me as a mighty terrible one: therefore my persecutors shall stumble, and they shall not prevail: they shall be greatly ashamed; for they shall not prosper: their everlasting confusion shall never be forgotten.
Isaiah 41:11-12
Behold, all they that were incensed against thee shall be ashamed and confounded: they shall be as nothing; and they that strive with thee shall perish. …
Psalms 34:5
They looked unto him, and were lightened: and their faces were not ashamed.
Psalms 115:17
The dead praise not the LORD, neither any that go down into silence.

Topics

Afflictions and Adversities Blessing Death Enquiring of God Gehenna Hades Hell Importunity

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 9-18)

In the Ps. 31:1-8 David had appealed to God’s righteousness, and pleaded his relation to him and dependence on him; here he appeals to his mercy, and pleads the greatness of his own misery, which made his case the proper object of that mercy. Observe, I. The complaint he makes of his trouble and distress (Ps. 31:9): “ Have mercy upon me, O Lord! for I am in trouble, and need thy mercy.” The rememb…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 17)

14-18. In his profession of trust he includes the terms of the prayer expressing it.