Deliver me in your righteousness, and rescue me. Turn your ear to me, and save me.
KJV
Deliver me in thy righteousness, and cause me to escape: incline thine ear unto me, and save me.
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Deliver me in thy righteousness,.... By it, or "for the sake of it" (q); See Gill on
Psa 31:1
;
and cause me to escape; present danger, and out of the hands of enemies, as well as wrath to come, and eternal death; which nothing but the righteousness of God can deliver from, or cause to escape;
incline thine ear unto me; or "bow it"; See Gill on
Psa 31:2
;
and save me; out of all troubles and afflictions, and from wicked and unreasonable men.
(q) "propter justitiam tuam", Pagninus, Piscator; so Schmidt.
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