Mazmur 61:3

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari

(61-4) Sungguh Engkau telah menjadi tempat perlindunganku, menara yang kuat terhadap musuh.

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
(61-4) Sungguh Engkau telah menjadi tempat perlindunganku, menara yang kuat terhadap musuh.

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Maka dari pada ujung tanah aku berseru kepada-Mu sebab sebaklah hatiku; hantarlah akan daku ke atas gunung batu yang terlalu tinggi bagiku.

Contextual Overview

¹ Heare my crying O Lorde: geue eare vnto my prayer. ² From the endes of the earth I wyll call vnto thee when my heart is in heauines: oh set me vp on the rocke that is higher then I. ³ For thou hast ben my hope: [and] a strong towre [for me] against the face of the enemie. ⁴ I wyll dwell in thy tabernacle for euer: my trust shalbe vnder the couering of thy wynges. Selah.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

thou: Psalms 4:6, Psalms 4:7, Psalms 116:2, Psalms 140:7, Isaiah 46:3, Isaiah 46:4, 2 Corinthians 1:10

strong: Psalms 18:2, Proverbs 18:10

Reciprocal: 2 Samuel 22:3 - my high Psalms 59:16 - for thou Psalms 91:1 - dwelleth Psalms 143:9 - flee unto thee Joel 3:16 - hope

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For thou hast been a shelter for me,.... Or "refuge" y, from avenging justice; a hiding place and covert from the storms and tempests of divine wrath; a shadow and a screen from the heat of Satan's fiery darts, and the blast of his terrible temptations,

Isaiah 25:4;

[and] a strong tower from the enemy: from Satan the devouring lion, from furious persecutors, and every other enemy; see Proverbs 18:10; and this experience the psalmist had of protection from the Rock in former times made him desirous of being led to it now.

y מחסה "asylum", Tigurine version, Vatablus; "perfagium", Cocceius; "refugium", Michaelis.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

For thou hast been a shelter for me - A place of refuge; a place where I have found safety. He refers here to what had occurred in former times. God had protected him when in danger, and he pleads that fact as a reason why God should now interpose and deliver him. That reason seems to be founded on two considerations:

(a) God had thus shown that he had power to deliver him; and

(b) it might be expected that God who is unchangeable, and who had interposed, would manifest the same traits of character still, and would not leave him now.

Both of these are proper grounds for prayer.

And strong tower from the enemy - See the notes at Psalms 18:2.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 61:3. Thou hast been a shelter for me — During the whole duration of the captivity God marvellously dealt with the poor Jews; so that, although they were cast down, they were not utterly forsaken.