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Psalms 31:14, 15

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Psalms 31:14, 15

But I trust in you, Yahweh. I said, “You are my God.” My times are in your hand. Deliver me from the hand of my enemies, and from those who persecute me.

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Have mercy on me, Yahweh, for I am in distress. My eye, my soul, and my body waste away with grief.

For my life is spent with sorrow, my years with sighing. My strength fails because of my iniquity. My bones are wasted away.

Because of all my adversaries I have become utterly contemptible to my neighbors, a horror to my acquaintances. Those who saw me on the street fled from me.

I am forgotten from their hearts like a dead man. I am like broken pottery.

For I have heard the slander of many, terror on every side, while they conspire together against me, they plot to take away my life.

But I trust in you, Yahweh. I said, “You are my God.”

My times are in your hand. Deliver me from the hand of my enemies, and from those who persecute me.

Make your face to shine on your servant. Save me in your loving kindness.

Let me not be disappointed, Yahweh, for I have called on you. Let the wicked be disappointed. Let them be silent in Sheol.

Let the lying lips be mute, which speak against the righteous insolently, with pride and contempt.

Oh how great is your goodness, which you have laid up for those who fear you, which you have worked for those who take refuge in you, before the sons of men!

In the shelter of your presence you will hide them from the plotting of man. You will keep them secretly in a dwelling away from the strife of tongues.

The fulfillment reading

How this passage is read as pointing to the Messiah.

The messianic-fulfillment reading connects the psalmist's declaration of trust in YHWH (Psalm 31:14-15) with the mockery of Jesus' trust reported in Matthew 27:43. Proponents hold that Jesus' Passion recapitulates the experience of the righteous sufferer voiced across several psalms, so that multiple texts converge on a single event. They argue that independent Old Testament passages meeting in one fulfillment strengthens rather than dilutes the prophetic case. On this view the shared trust-language links the psalm to the crucifixion scene, where that trust is thrown back as a taunt.

The counter-reading

How this passage is read within its own context.

The critical reading notes that Psalm 31:14-15 is the trust section of a lament, voiced sincerely by the speaker, whereas Matthew 27:43 places similar words in the mouths of mockers, approaching the same theme from the opposite direction. It further observes that Matthew 27:43 corresponds more directly to Psalm 22:8 and is here paired with a second psalm as well. Critics characterize this as working backward from a fixed New Testament event to multiple Old Testament passages, each then counted as a separate prophecy. On this view the Old Testament texts multiply while the underlying Gospel scene remains singular.

How the New Testament uses this passage

Each entry names how the New Testament author draws on the passage — a direct quotation, an allusion, an echo, or a typological reading. An echo or an allusion is not the same as a prediction; the label says which is which.

  • Matthew 27:43 Echo

    Matthew 27:43's taunt aligns most closely with Psalm 22:8; its relation to Psalm 31:14-15 is an unmarked verbal echo of shared trust-language, not a citation of this psalm.