Psalm 31:22
New International Version
In my alarm I said, “I am cut off from your sight!” Yet you heard my cry for mercy when I called to you for help.

New Living Translation
In panic I cried out, “I am cut off from the LORD!” But you heard my cry for mercy and answered my call for help.

English Standard Version
I had said in my alarm, “I am cut off from your sight.” But you heard the voice of my pleas for mercy when I cried to you for help.

Berean Standard Bible
In my alarm I said, “I am cut off from Your sight!” But You heard my plea for mercy when I called to You for help.

King James Bible
For I said in my haste, I am cut off from before thine eyes: nevertheless thou heardest the voice of my supplications when I cried unto thee.

New King James Version
For I said in my haste, “I am cut off from before Your eyes”; Nevertheless You heard the voice of my supplications When I cried out to You.

New American Standard Bible
As for me, I said in my alarm, “I am cut off from Your eyes”; Nevertheless You heard the sound of my pleadings When I called to You for help.

NASB 1995
As for me, I said in my alarm, “I am cut off from before Your eyes"; Nevertheless You heard the voice of my supplications When I cried to You.

NASB 1977
As for me, I said in my alarm, “I am cut off from before Thine eyes”; Nevertheless Thou didst hear the voice of my supplications When I cried to Thee.

Legacy Standard Bible
As for me, I said in my alarm, “I am cut off from before Your eyes”; Nevertheless, You heard the voice of my supplications When I cried to You for help.

Amplified Bible
As for me, I said in my alarm, “I am cut off from Your eyes.” Nevertheless You heard the voice of my supplications (specific requests) When I cried to You [for help].

Christian Standard Bible
In my alarm I said, “I am cut off from your sight.” But you heard the sound of my pleading when I cried to you for help.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
In my alarm I had said,” I am cut off from Your sight.” But You heard the sound of my pleading when I cried to You for help.

American Standard Version
As for me, I said in my haste, I am cut off from before thine eyes: Nevertheless thou heardest the voice of my supplications, When I cried unto thee.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
I have said in my haste, "I am destroyed from before your eyes”, and you heard the voice of my prayer when I cried out to you.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
But I said in my extreme fear, I am cast out from the sight of thine eyes: therefore thou didst hearken, O Lord, to the voice of my supplication when I cried to thee.

Contemporary English Version
I was terrified and thought, "They've chased me far away from you!" But you answered my prayer when I shouted for help.

Douay-Rheims Bible
But I said in the excess of my mind: I am cast away from before thy eyes. Therefore thou hast heard the voice of my prayer, when I cried to thee.

English Revised Version
As for me, I said in my haste, I am cut off from before thine eyes: nevertheless thou heardest the voice of my supplications when I cried unto thee.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
When I was panic-stricken, I said, "I have been cut off from your sight." But you heard my pleas for mercy when I cried out to you for help.

Good News Translation
I was afraid and thought that he had driven me out of his presence. But he heard my cry, when I called to him for help.

International Standard Version
When I said in my panic, "I have been cut off in your sight," then you surely heard the voice of my prayer in my plea to you for help.

JPS Tanakh 1917
As for me, I said in my haste: 'I am cut off from before Thine eyes'; Nevertheless Thou heardest the voice of my supplications when I cried unto Thee.

Literal Standard Version
And I have said in my haste, “I have been cut off from before Your eyes,” | But You have heard the voice of my supplications, | In my crying to You.

Majority Standard Bible
In my alarm I said, “I am cut off from Your sight!” But You heard my plea for mercy when I called to You for help.

New American Bible
Though I had said in my alarm, “I am cut off from your eyes.” Yet you heard my voice, my cry for mercy, when I pleaded with you for help.

NET Bible
I jumped to conclusions and said, "I am cut off from your presence!" But you heard my plea for mercy when I cried out to you for help.

New Revised Standard Version
I had said in my alarm, “I am driven far from your sight.” But you heard my supplications when I cried out to you for help.

New Heart English Bible
As for me, I said in my haste, "I am cut off from before your eyes." Nevertheless you heard the voice of my petitions when I cried to you.

Webster's Bible Translation
For I said in my haste, I am cut off from before thy eyes: nevertheless thou heardest the voice of my supplications when I cried to thee.

World English Bible
As for me, I said in my haste, “I am cut off from before your eyes.” Nevertheless you heard the voice of my petitions when I cried to you.

Young's Literal Translation
And I -- I have said in my haste, 'I have been cut off from before Thine eyes,' But Thou hast heard the voice of my supplications, In my crying unto Thee.

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Context
Into Your Hands I Commit My Spirit
21Blessed be the LORD, for He has shown me His loving devotion in a city under siege. 22In my alarm I said, “I am cut off from Your sight!” But You heard my plea for mercy when I called to You for help. 23Love the LORD, all His saints. The LORD preserves the faithful, but fully repays the arrogant.…

Cross References
Psalm 18:6
In my distress I called upon the LORD; I cried to my God for help. From His temple He heard my voice, and my cry for His help reached His ears.

Psalm 22:24
For He has not despised or detested the torment of the afflicted. He has not hidden His face from him, but has attended to his cry for help.

Psalm 66:19
But God has surely heard; He has attended to the sound of my prayer.

Psalm 77:10
So I said, "I am grieved that the right hand of the Most High has changed."

Psalm 88:5
I am forsaken among the dead, like the slain who lie in the grave, whom You remember no more, who are cut off from Your care.

Psalm 116:11
In my alarm I said, "All men are liars!"

Psalm 145:19
He fulfills the desires of those who fear Him; He hears their cry and saves them.


Treasury of Scripture

For I said in my haste, I am cut off from before your eyes: nevertheless you heard the voice of my supplications when I cried to you.

I said

Psalm 116:11
I said in my haste, All men are liars.

1 Samuel 23:26
And Saul went on this side of the mountain, and David and his men on that side of the mountain: and David made haste to get away for fear of Saul; for Saul and his men compassed David and his men round about to take them.

1 Samuel 27:1
And David said in his heart, I shall now perish one day by the hand of Saul: there is nothing better for me than that I should speedily escape into the land of the Philistines; and Saul shall despair of me, to seek me any more in any coast of Israel: so shall I escape out of his hand.

I am

Psalm 31:17
Let 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.

Psalm 88:16
Thy fierce wrath goeth over me; thy terrors have cut me off.

Isaiah 6:5
Then said I, Woe is me! for I am undone; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for mine eyes have seen the King, the LORD of hosts.

nevertheless

Psalm 6:9
The LORD hath heard my supplication; the LORD will receive my prayer.

2 Chronicles 33:11-13
Wherefore the LORD brought upon them the captains of the host of the king of Assyria, which took Manasseh among the thorns, and bound him with fetters, and carried him to Babylon…

Jonah 2:7-9
When my soul fainted within me I remembered the LORD: and my prayer came in unto thee, into thine holy temple…

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Psalm 31
1. David, showing his confidence in God, craves his help
7. He rejoices in his mercy
9. He prays in his calamity
19. He praises God for his goodness














(22) In my haste . . .--Literally, in my fleeing away in fear. Jerome, Aquila, and Symmachus, "in my confusion."

Verse 22. - For I said in my haste; rather, and I indeed had said in my haste (comp. Psalm 116:11). David's faith was not so firmly fixed but that he was liable, from time to time, to a sudden access of fear (see 1 Samuel 27:1; 2 Samuel 15:14; Psalm 31:13). He had said to God in his heart, on one such occasion, I am cut off from before thine eyes; i.e. he had despaired and given himself up for lost. It is somewhat forced to understand the words as meaning, "I am banished from the city where the ark is placed" ('Speaker's Commentary'). Nevertheless, thou heardest the voice of my supplications when I cried unto thee. God did not forsake his servant on account of this temporary failure of faith. No sooner did the psalmist rid himself of his extreme alarm, and turn once more to God in prayer, than he was heard, and his prayer answered.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
In my alarm
בְחָפְזִ֗י (ḇə·ḥā·p̄ə·zî)
Preposition-b | Verb - Qal - Infinitive construct | first person common singular
Strong's 2648: To start up suddenly, to hasten away, to fear

I
וַאֲנִ֤י ׀ (wa·’ă·nî)
Conjunctive waw | Pronoun - first person common singular
Strong's 589: I

said,
אָ֘מַ֤רְתִּי (’ā·mar·tî)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - first person common singular
Strong's 559: To utter, say

“I am cut off
נִגְרַזְתִּי֮ (niḡ·raz·tî)
Verb - Nifal - Perfect - first person common singular
Strong's 1629: To cut, cut off

from
מִנֶּ֪גֶד (min·ne·ḡeḏ)
Preposition-m
Strong's 5048: A front, part opposite, a counterpart, mate, over against, before

Your sight!”
עֵ֫ינֶ֥יךָ (‘ê·ne·ḵā)
Noun - cdc | second person masculine singular
Strong's 5869: An eye, a fountain

But
אָכֵ֗ן (’ā·ḵên)
Adverb
Strong's 403: Firmly, surely, but

You heard
שָׁ֭מַעְתָּ (ma‘·tā)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - second person masculine singular
Strong's 8085: To hear intelligently

my plea
ק֥וֹל (qō·wl)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 6963: A voice, sound

for mercy
תַּחֲנוּנַ֗י (ta·ḥă·nū·nay)
Noun - masculine plural construct | first person common singular
Strong's 8469: Supplication for favor

when I called to You
אֵלֶֽיךָ׃ (’ê·le·ḵā)
Preposition | second person masculine singular
Strong's 413: Near, with, among, to

for help.
בְּשַׁוְּעִ֥י (bə·šaw·wə·‘î)
Preposition-b | Verb - Piel - Infinitive construct | first person common singular
Strong's 7768: To be free, to halloo


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