Psalms 59:1
O God, you have rejected and destroyed us; you have been angry, yet have pitied us. 1
LXX2012 (US English)
In The King James Version
Deliver me from mine enemies, O my God: defend me from them that rise up against me.
In Context
2You have shaken the earth, and troubled it; heal its breaches, for it has been shaken. 1
Cross References
Judges 16:2And it was reported to the Gazites, saying, Sampson is come here: and they compassed him and laid wait for him all night in the gate of the city, and they were quiet all the night, saying, Let us wait till the dawn appear, and we will kill him.
Psalms 7:1O Lord my God, in you have I trusted: save me from all them that persecute me, and deliver me. 1
Psalms 57:1If you⌃ do indeed speak righteousness, then do you⌃ judge rightly, you⌃ sons of men. 1
Psalms 71:4he shall judge the poor of the people in righteousness, and save the children of the needy; and shall bring low the false accuser. 1
Psalms 143:9O God, I will sing a new song to you: I will play to you on a lute of ten strings. 1
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 →