Psalms 56:1
Show me favour, O God, For weak man hath panted for me, All the day, a fighter oppresseth me:
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
Be merciful unto me, O God: for man would swallow me up; he fighting daily oppresseth me.
In Context
2Mine adversaries have panted all the day, For, many, are fighting with me, loftily.
Cross References
1 Samuel 21:11And the servants of Achish said unto him, Is not, this, David, king of the land? Was it not, of this man, that they kept responding in the dances, saying, Saul, hath smitten his, thousands, but, David, his, tens of thousands?
Psalms 16:1Preserve me, O GOD, for I have sought refuge in thee.
Psalms 27:2When there drew near against me evil-doers to devour my flesh, mine adversaries, and mine enemies—mine!—they, stumbled and fell!
Psalms 35:25Let them not say in their heart, Aha! to our mind! Let them not say, We have swallowed him up!
Psalms 58:1Are ye, indeed, silent [when] righteousness, ye should speak? When, with equity, ye should judge, O ye sons of men?
Psalms 59:10My God of lovingkindness, will come to meet me, God, will let me look on mine adversaries.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 56:1
It seems by this, and many other psalms, that even in times of the greatest trouble and distress David never hung his harp upon the willow-trees, never unstrung it or laid it by; but that when his dangers and fears were greatest he was still in tune for singing God's praises. He was in imminent peril when he penned this psalm, at least when he meditated it; yet even then his meditation of God was sweet. I. He complains of the malice of his enemies, and begs mercy for himself and justice against them, ver. 1, 2 ,… Read the whole commentary →