Psalms 59:4
You have given a token to them that fear you, that they might flee from the bow. Pause. 1
LXX2012 (US English)
In The King James Version
They run and prepare themselves without my fault: awake to help me, and behold.
In Context
3You have shown your people hard things: you have made us drink the wine of astonishment. 1
5That your beloved ones may be delivered; save with your right hand, and hear me. 1
Cross References
Genesis 40:15For surely I was stolen away out of the land of the Hebrews, and here I have done nothing, but they have cast me into this pit.
1 Samuel 19:12So Melchol lets David down by the window, and he departed, and fled, and escaped.
Proverbs 1:16+ 1:16 this verse is not in the text. The Alexandrine text is shown here For their feet run to do evil, and are swift to shed blood.
Isaiah 59:7And + 59:7 Rom 3:15-17 their feet run to wickedness, swift to shed blood; their thoughts also are thoughts + 59:7 Gr. from murders, but Alex. reads ὐφρόνων. of murder; destruction and misery are in their ways;
Matthew Henry on Psalms 59:2-8
Prayer for Deliverance. 1 Deliver me from mine enemies, O my God: defend me from them that rise up against me. 2 Deliver me from the workers of iniquity, and save me from bloody men. 3 For, lo, they lie in wait for my soul: the mighty are gathered against me; not for my transgression, nor for my sin, O Lord . 4 They run and prepare themselves without my fault: awake to help me, and behold. 5 Thou therefore, O Lord God of hosts, the God of Israel, awake to visit all the heathen: be not merciful to any wicked… Read the whole commentary →