Psalms 59:1
Unto the end. For those who will be changed, with the inscription of a title, of David himself, for instruction:
Catholic Public Domain 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
Cross References
Judges 16:2And when the Philistines had heard of this, and it had become well known among them, that Samson had entered the city, they surrounded him, placing guards at the gate of the city. And there they were keeping watch all night in silence, so that, in the morning, they might kill him as he was going out.
Psalms 7:1A Psalm of David, which he sang to the Lord because of the words of Cush, the son of Jemini.
Psalms 57:1Unto the end. May you not destroy. Of David, with the inscription of a title.
Psalms 71:4He will judge the poor of the people, and he will bring salvation to the sons of the poor. And he will humble the false accuser.
Psalms 143:9To you, O God, I will sing a new song. On the psaltery, with an instrument of ten strings, I will sing psalms to you.
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 →