Psalms 59:5
Do thou, O Jehovah, God of hosts, God of Israel, Awake to punish all the nations! Show no mercy to any wicked transgressors! [[Pause.]]
Noyes Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
4Without any offence of mine, they run and prepare themselves; Awake to help me, and behold!
6Let them return at evening, Let them howl like dogs, And go round about the city!
Cross References
Psalms 7:7Let the assembly of the nations compass thee about, And on their account return to the height!
Psalms 9:15The nations have sunk into the pit which they made; In the net, which they hid, is their own foot taken.
Psalms 55:15May sudden death seize upon them! May they go down to the underworld alive! For wickedness is in their dwellings, in the midst of them.
Psalms 84:8Hear my prayer, O LORD, God of hosts! Give ear, O God of Jacob! [[Pause.]]
Isaiah 27:11When her boughs are withered, they are broken off; Women come, and burn them; For it was a people of no understanding; Therefore he that made him had not mercy on him, And he that formed him showed him no favor.
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 →