Psalms 59:1
Unto the end, destroy not, for David for an inscription of It title, when Saul sent and watched his house to kill him.
Douay-Rheims 1899
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 my enemies, O my God; and defend me from them that rise up against me.
Cross References
Judges 16:2And when the Philistines had beard this, and it was noised about among them, that Samson was come into the city, they surrounded him, setting guards at the gate of the city, and watching there all the night in silence, that in the morning they might kill him as he went out.
Psalms 7:1The psalm of David which he sung to the Lord for the words of Chusi the son of Jemini. [2 Kings 16.]
Psalms 18:48O God, who avengest me, and subduest the people under me, my deliverer from my enemies.
Psalms 57:1Unto the end, destroy not, for David, for an inscription of a title, when he fled from Saul into the cave
Psalms 71:4Deliver me, O my God, out of the hand of the sinner, and out of the hand of the transgressor of the law and of the unjust.
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 →