Psa 71:3 | NET2full | STEP | Be my protector and refuge , a stronghold where I can be safe . For you are my high ridge and my stronghold .

‏ Psalms 71:3

3 Be my protector and refuge, ^{▼▼tc Heb “become for me a rocky summit of a dwelling place.” The Hebrew term מָעוֹן (maʿon, “dwelling place”) should probably be emended to מָעוֹז (maʿoz, “refuge”; see Ps 31:2).}
a stronghold where I can be safe. ^{▼▼tc Heb “to enter, continually you commanded to deliver me.” The Hebrew phrase לָבוֹא תָּמִיד צִוִּיתָ (lavoʾ tamid tsivvita) should be emended to לְבֵית מְצוּדוֹת (levet metsudot, “a house of strongholds”; see Ps 31:2).}
For you are my high ridge ^{▼▼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.} and my stronghold.