Psa 31:3 | NET2full | STEP | For you are my high ridge and my stronghold ; for the sake of your own reputation you lead me and guide me.

Psalms 31:3

3 For you are my high ridge ^{▼▼sn The metaphor of the high ridge pictures God as a rocky, relatively inaccessible summit, where one would be able to find protection from enemies. See 1 Sam 23:25, 28.} and my stronghold;
for the sake of your own reputation ^{▼▼tn Heb “name.” The Hebrew term שֵׁם (shem, “name”) refers here to the Lord’s reputation. (The English term “name” is often used the same way.)} you lead me and guide me. ^{▼▼tn The present translation assumes that the imperfect verbal forms are generalizing, “you lead me and guide me.” Other options are to take them as an expression of confidence about the future, “you will lead me and guide me” (cf. NASB), or as expressing a prayer, “lead me and guide me” (cf. NEB, NIV, NRSV).}