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Psalm 32:1-11

You Are My Hiding Place

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You Are My Hiding Place

Psalm 32:1-11

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This song belongs to the Psalms collection. One recording is available to play here, with the complete lyrics below.

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Psalms
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Psalms
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There is nothing better than having your wrong lifted off you, Your failure put out of sight. There is nothing better than the Lord Keeping no account against you, And nothing crooked left in your spirit. While I stayed quiet about it My bones wore out from groaning all day. Day and night Your hand sat heavy on me; Everything green in me dried up The way ground dries in summer. So I told You what I had done. I stopped covering it over. I said, I am going to lay it out before the Lord, And You lifted the weight of it off me. You are the place I hide. You keep me out of the way of trouble And put songs of getting free All around me. I will show you the road and teach you how to walk it; I will keep my eye on you as you go. Do not be like a horse or a mule With no sense in it, That has to be held by bit and bridle Before it will come near. Sorrow piles up for those who do harm, But mercy circles the one Who leans on the Lord. Be glad in the Lord, all of you who are straight with Him. Let it out , quietly, but let it out.

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Psalms 32: The sin uncovered and the person sheltered

Psalm 32 is built around two opposite kinds of hiding. The Book of Psalms blesses the person whose sin is forgiven and covered, then shows what happens when the speaker tries to cover it himself. Silence about guilt dries him out even while he groans aloud. Confession reverses that contradiction: he acknowledges, stops hiding, and names his transgression, and God forgives. Only then does hiding become safety. The God before whom sin is uncovered becomes the speaker's hiding place from trouble, surrounded not by secrecy but by songs of deliverance. The closing movement turns forgiveness toward instruction. Whether the voice of verse 8 is heard as divine guidance or the forgiven speaker teaching another, the way forward requires responsive understanding rather than the bit and bridle of forced restraint. Mercy encircles the trusting person, and joy belongs to an uprightness defined by truthfulness and pardon rather than invented sinlessness.

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