Psalms 31:3

THE MESSAGE

You're my cave to hide in, my cliff to climb. Be my safe leader, be my true mountain guide. Free me from hidden traps; I want to hide in you. I've put my life in your hands. You won't drop me, you'll never let me down.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
For you are my rock and my fortress;you lead and guide mefor your name’s sake.

Hebrew Names Version
For you are my rock and my fortress, Therefore for your name's sake lead me and guide me.

King James Version
For thou art my rock and my fortress; therefore for thy name's sake lead me, and guide me.

English Standard Version
For you are my rock and my fortress; and for your name's sake you lead me and guide me;

New Century Version
You are my rock and my protection. For the good of your name, lead me and guide me.

New English Translation
For you are my high ridge and my stronghold; for the sake of your own reputation you lead me and guide me.

Amplified Bible
Yes, You are my rock and my fortress; For Your name's sake You will lead me and guide me.

New American Standard Bible
For You are my rock and my fortress; For the sake of Your name You will lead me and guide me.

World English Bible
For you are my rock and my fortress, Therefore for your name's sake lead me and guide me.

Geneva Bible (1587)
For thou art my rocke and my fortresse: therefore for thy Names sake directe mee and guide me.

Legacy Standard Bible
For You are my high rock and my fortress;For Your name's sake You will lead me and guide me.

Berean Standard Bible
For You are my rock and my fortress; lead and guide me for the sake of Your name.

Contemporary English Version
You, Lord God, are my mighty rock and my fortress. Lead me and guide me, so that your name will be honored.

Complete Jewish Bible
Turn your ear toward me, come quickly to my rescue, be for me a rock of strength, a fortress to keep me safe.

Darby Translation
For thou art my rock and my fortress; and, for thy name's sake, thou wilt lead me and guide me.

Easy-to-Read Version
Yes, you are my Rock and my protection. For the good of your name, lead me and guide me.

George Lamsa Translation
For thou art my strength and my refuge; therefore for thy names sake comfort me and guide me.

Good News Translation
You are my refuge and defense; guide me and lead me as you have promised.

Lexham English Bible
For you are my rock and my fortress. So, for the sake of your name, lead me and guide me.

Literal Translation
For You are my Rock and my Fortress; and for Your name's sake lead me and guide me.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
be thou my stronge rocke and a house of defence, that thou mayest saue me.

American Standard Version
For thou art my rock and my fortress; Therefore for thy name's sake lead me and guide me.

Bible in Basic English
For you are my Rock and my strong tower; go in front of me and be my guide, because of your name.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
Incline Thine ear unto me, deliver me speedily;

King James Version (1611)
For thou art my rocke and my fortresse: therfore for thy names sake lead me, and guide me.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
For thou art my strong rocke and fortresse: euen for thy name sake conduct me, and direct me.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
For thou art my strength and my refuge; and thou shalt guide me for thy name’s sake, and maintain me.

English Revised Version
For thou art my rock and my fortress; therefore for thy name's sake lead me and guide me.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
For thou art my strengthe and my refuyt; and for thi name thou schalt lede me forth, and schalt nurische me.

Update Bible Version
For you are my rock and my fortress; Therefore for your name's sake lead me and guide me.

Webster's Bible Translation
For thou [art] my rock and my fortress; therefore for thy name's sake lead me, and guide me.

New King James Version
For You are my rock and my fortress; Therefore, for Your name's sake, Lead me and guide me.

New Living Translation
You are my rock and my fortress. For the honor of your name, lead me out of this danger.

New Life Bible
For You are my rock and my safe place. For the honor of Your name, lead me and show me the way.

New Revised Standard
You are indeed my rock and my fortress; for your name's sake lead me and guide me,

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Because, my mountain crag and my stronghold, thou art, Therefore, for the sake of thine own Name, wilt thou lead me and guide me?

Douay-Rheims Bible
(30-4) For thou art my strength and my refuge; and for thy name’s sake thou wilt lead me, and nourish me.

Revised Standard Version
Yea, thou art my rock and my fortress; for thy name's sake lead me and guide me,

Young's Literal Translation
For my rock and my bulwark [art] Thou, For Thy name's sake lead me and tend me.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
For You are my rock and my fortress; For Your name's sake You will lead me and guide me.

Contextual Overview

¹A David Psalm I run to you, God ; I run for dear life. Don't let me down! Take me seriously this time! Get down on my level and listen, and please—no procrastination! Your granite cave a hiding place, your high cliff aerie a place of safety. ³You're my cave to hide in, my cliff to climb. Be my safe leader, be my true mountain guide. Free me from hidden traps; I want to hide in you. I've put my life in your hands. You won't drop me, you'll never let me down. ⁶I hate all this silly religion, but you, God , I trust. I'm leaping and singing in the circle of your love; you saw my pain, you disarmed my tormentors, You didn't leave me in their clutches but gave me room to breathe. Be kind to me, God — I'm in deep, deep trouble again. I've cried my eyes out; I feel hollow inside. My life leaks away, groan by groan; my years fade out in sighs. My troubles have worn me out, turned my bones to powder. To my enemies I'm a monster; I'm ridiculed by the neighbors. My friends are horrified; they cross the street to avoid me. They want to blot me from memory, forget me like a corpse in a grave, discard me like a broken dish in the trash. The street-talk gossip has me "criminally insane"! Behind locked doors they plot how to ruin me for good.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

for thy: Psalms 23:2, Psalms 23:3, Psalms 25:11, Psalms 79:9, Joshua 7:9, Jeremiah 14:7, Ezekiel 36:21, Ezekiel 36:22, Ephesians 1:12

lead: Psalms 25:5, Psalms 25:9, Psalms 43:3, Psalms 139:24, Psalms 143:10, Psalms 143:11, Nehemiah 9:12, Nehemiah 9:19, Isaiah 49:10, Luke 1:79, John 16:13

Reciprocal: 2 Samuel 22:2 - General Psalms 71:3 - my strong habitation Psalms 109:21 - But do Isaiah 32:2 - rock

Cross-References

Genesis 21:22
At about that same time, Abimelech and the captain of his troops, Phicol, spoke to Abraham: "No matter what you do, God is on your side. So swear to me that you won't do anything underhanded to me or any of my family. For as long as you live here, swear that you'll treat me and my land as well as I've treated you."

Genesis 28:13
Then God was right before him, saying, "I am God , the God of Abraham your father and the God of Isaac. I'm giving the ground on which you are sleeping to you and to your descendants. Your descendants will be as the dust of the Earth; they'll stretch from west to east and from north to south. All the families of the Earth will bless themselves in you and your descendants. Yes. I'll stay with you, I'll protect you wherever you go, and I'll bring you back to this very ground. I'll stick with you until I've done everything I promised you."

Genesis 30:25
After Rachel had had Joseph, Jacob spoke to Laban, "Let me go back home. Give me my wives and children for whom I've served you. You know how hard I've worked for you."

Genesis 31:3
That's when God said to Jacob, "Go back home where you were born. I'll go with you."

Genesis 31:22
Three days later, Laban got the news: "Jacob's run off." Laban rounded up his relatives and chased after him. Seven days later they caught up with him in the hill country of Gilead. That night God came to Laban the Aramean in a dream and said, "Be careful what you do to Jacob, whether good or bad."

Genesis 35:1
God spoke to Jacob: "Go back to Bethel. Stay there and build an altar to the God who revealed himself to you when you were running for your life from your brother Esau."

Genesis 50:24
At the end, Joseph said to his brothers, "I am ready to die. God will most certainly pay you a visit and take you out of this land and back to the land he so solemnly promised to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob."

Psalms 46:1
A Song of the Sons of Korah God is a safe place to hide, ready to help when we need him. We stand fearless at the cliff-edge of doom, courageous in seastorm and earthquake, Before the rush and roar of oceans, the tremors that shift mountains. Jacob-wrestling God fights for us, God -of-Angel-Armies protects us.

Hebrews 13:5
Don't be obsessed with getting more material things. Be relaxed with what you have. Since God assured us, "I'll never let you down, never walk off and leave you," we can boldly quote, God is there, ready to help; I'm fearless no matter what. Who or what can get to me?

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For thou [art] my rock and my fortress,.... What he prayed for he knew him to be, and to have been in times past, and could claim his interest in him; and therefore entreats that he would appear to be to him what he was in himself, and what he had been to him;

therefore for thy name's sake lead me, and guide me; either as a shepherd does his flock, gently, as they are able to bear it; into the green pastures of the word and ordinances, and beside the still waters of divine love, and to the overflowing fountain, and fulness of grace in himself; or as a general leads and guides his army; Christ being a Leader and Commander of the people, and the great Captain of their salvation, and who being at the head of them, they fear no enemy; or as a guide leads and directs such as are ignorant, and out of the way. The psalmist desires the Lord would lead him in the way of truth and paths of righteousness, according to his word; and guide him with his counsel, and by his Spirit, that so he might walk in the way in which he should go; and this he entreats he would do "for [his] name's sake"; not for any merit or worthiness in him; but for the glory of his own name, and for the honour of his free grace and mercy, for which the Lord often does many things; he defers his anger, he purges away the sins of his people, he forgives their transgressions, and remembers their sins no more, for his name's sake.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

For thou art my rock and my fortress - See the notes at Psalms 18:2.

Therefore for thy name’s sake - For the sake of thine own honor, or for the glory of thy name. See the notes at Psalms 23:3. That is, since thou art my rock and my defense - since I put my trust in thee - show, by leading and guiding me, that my trust is well founded, or that this is Thy character, and that Thou wilt be true and faithful to those who commit their all to thee. See the notes at Psalms 31:1.