Psalms 58:1
Deliver me from my enemies, O God; and ransom me from those that rise up against me. 1
LXX2012 (US English)
In The King James Version
Do ye indeed speak righteousness, O congregation? do ye judge uprightly, O ye sons of men?
In Context
2Deliver me from the workers of iniquity, and save me from bloody men. 1
Cross References
Numbers 11:16And the Lord said to Moses, Gather me seventy men from the elders of Israel, whom you yourself know that they are the elders of the people, and their scribes; and you shall bring them to the tabernacle of witness, and they shall stand there with you.
Deuteronomy 16:18You shall make for yourself judges and officers in your cities, which the Lord your God gives you in your tribes, and they shall judge the people with righteous judgment:
2 Samuel 23:3The God of Israel says, A watchman out of Israel spoke to me a parable: I said among men, How will you⌃ strengthen the fear of the anointed?
Psalms 57:1If you⌃ do indeed speak righteousness, then do you⌃ judge rightly, you⌃ sons of men. 1
Psalms 72:1How good is God to Israel, to the upright in heart! 1
Psalms 82:6even the tents of the Idumeans, and the Ismaelites; Moab, and the Agarenes; 1
Matthew Henry on Psalms 58:1
It is the probable conjecture of some (Amyraldus particularly) that before Saul began to persecute David by force of arms, and raised the militia to seize him, he formed a process against him by course of law, upon which he was condemned unheard, and attainted as a traitor, by the great council, or supreme court of judicature, and then proclaimed "qui caput gerit lupinum—an outlawed wolf," whom any man might kill and no man might protect. The elders, in order to curry favour with Saul, having passed this bill of… Read the whole commentary →