Psalms 59:5
You, Yahweh God of hosts, the God of Israel, 1 arise and punish all the nations; 1 do not be merciful to any wicked transgressors. Selah 1
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4They prepare to run at me although I am without fault; 1 awake and help me and see. 1
6They return at evening, they howl like dogs 1 and go around the city. 1
Cross References
Exodus 3:15God also said to Moses, “You must say to the Israelites, 'Yahweh, the God of your ancestors, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has sent me to you. This is my name forever, and this is how I will be kept in mind for all generations.'
Psalms 7:7The countries are assembled all around you; 1 take once more your rightful place over them. 1
Psalms 9:15The nations have sunk down into the pit that they made; 1 their feet are caught in the net that they hid. 1
Psalms 55:15Let death come suddenly on them; 1 let them go down alive to Sheol, 1 for wickedness is where they live, right among them. 1
Psalms 84:8Yahweh God of hosts, hear my prayer; 1 God of Jacob, listen to what I am saying! Selah 1
Isaiah 27:11When the boughs are withered, they will be broken off. Women will come and make fires with them, 1 for this is not a people of understanding. 1 Therefore their Maker will not have compassion on them, and he who made them will not be merciful to them. 1
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 →