What Does Psalm 31:14 Mean in the King James?

But I trusted in thee, O LORD: I said, Thou art my God.

Psalm 31:14 · KJV

The analysis reads the King James wording.

King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.

THE KEY

The root of “trusted” also gives “security,” so the verse locates safety in the LORD while the word “But” keeps the pressure in view.

THE MEANING

Trust is a present place of security in the LORD; it does not require the surrounding pressure to vanish first. The spoken confession, “Thou art my God,” gives that reliance a personal address.

WHAT THIS UNDOES

It undoes the belief that uncertainty must be resolved before trust is possible: the verse places trust and confession inside the unresolved “but.”

THE ROOT

בָּטַחְתִּי

batachti

GROWS FROM

בטח

batach

To trust, feel secure, or rely with confidence.

The same root can name both the act of trusting and the security that trust rests in. Here, “I trusted” is more than agreement in the mind: it places the speaker’s security in the LORD, whom the next words name as “my God.”

ALSO GROWS

betaḥ: Security, safety

בֶּטַח

This branch names the state of security, linking trust with the safety it rests in.

mivtaḥ: Confidence, refuge

מִבְטָח

This branch carries the sense of a refuge or confidence, showing trust as a place of reliance rather than a passing thought.

THE PATTERN

Trust locates security in God while pressure or uncertainty remains in view.

Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.

Proverbs 3:5 · KJVTrust is described as reliance on the LORD even when one’s own understanding does not settle the matter.

Behold, God is my salvation; I will trust, and not be afraid: for the LORD JEHOVAH is my strength and my song; he also is become my salvation.

Isaiah 12:2 · KJVTrust is voiced alongside fear, with God named as the source of security.

But we had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God which raiseth the dead:

2 Corinthians 1:9 · KJVThe verse locates reliance in God even when the situation feels like an ending.

THE THREAD

What time I am afraid, I will trust in thee.

Psalm 56:3 · KJV

The verb translated “trust” in both verses grows from batach, “to trust; feel secure.” Psalm 56:3 names fear alongside that same reliance, while Psalm 31:14 gives the reliance a direct confession: “Thou art my God.”

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