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Psalms 71:3

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Be my protector and refuge, 1  a stronghold where I can be safe! 2  For you are my high ridge 3  and my stronghold.

XREF

Ps 18:2; Ps 31:2,3; Ps 44:4; Ps 68:28; Ps 91:1,2; Ps 91:11,12; Ps 144:2; Pr 18:10; Isa 33:16; Eze 9:6; Re 7:2,3

NET © Notes

tc Heb “become for me a rocky summit of a dwelling place.” The Hebrew term מָעוֹן (maon, “dwelling place”) should probably be emended to מָעוֹז (maoz, “refuge”; see Ps 31:2).

tc Heb “to enter continually, you commanded to deliver me.” The Hebrew phrase לָבוֹא תָּמִיד צִוִּיתָ (lavotamid tsivvita, “to enter continually, you commanded”) should be emended to לְבֵית מְצוּדוֹת (lÿvet mÿtsudot, “a house of strongholds”; see Ps 31:2).

sn You are my high ridge. This metaphor pictures God as a rocky, relatively inaccessible summit, where one would be able to find protection from enemies. See 1 Sam 23:25, 28.



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