Psalms 59:1
Deliver me from my enemies, O my God. Set me on high from those who rise up against me.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
Deliver me from mine enemies, O my God: defend me from them that rise up against me.
In Context
2Deliver me from the workers of iniquity, and save me from the bloodthirsty men.
Cross References
Judges 16:2[And it was told] the Gazites, saying, Samson has come here. And they encompassed him in, and laid wait for him all night in the gate of the city, and were quiet all the night, saying, [Not] till morning light, then we will kill hi
Psalms 7:1O LORD my God, in thee do I take refuge. Save me from all those who pursue me, and deliver me,
Psalms 18:48He rescues me from my enemies. Yea, thou lift me up above those who rise up against me. Thou deliver me from the violent man.
Psalms 57:1Be merciful to me, O God, be merciful to me, for my soul takes refuge in thee. Yea, in the shadow of thy wings I will take refuge until calamities be passed by.
Psalms 71:4Rescue me, O my God, out of the hand of a wicked man, out of the hand of an unrighteous and cruel man.
Psalms 143:9Deliver me, O LORD, from my enemies. I flee to thee to hide me.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 59:1
This psalm is of the same nature and scope with six or seven foregoing psalms; they are all filled with David's complaints of the malice of his enemies and of their cursed and cruel designs against him, his prayers and prophecies against them, and his comfort and confidence in God as his God. The first is the language of nature, and may be allowed; the second of a prophetical spirit, looking forward to Christ and the enemies of his kingdom, and therefore not to be drawn into a precedent; the third of grace and a… Read the whole commentary →