Psalms 59:5
Thou, therefore, O Yahweh, God of hosts, God of Israel, Awake, to visit all the nations, Do not show favour to any iniquitous traitors. [Selah.]
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
In Context
4For no iniquity, do they run that they may take their stand, Rouse thyself to meet me, and see.
6They return at evening, They grow like a dog, And go round the city.
Cross References
Exodus 3:15And God said yet further unto Moses—Thus shalt thou say unto the sons of Israel, Yahweh God of your fathers. God of Abraham God of Isaac and God of Jacob, hath sent me unto you. This, is my name to times age-abiding, And, this, my memorial to generation after generation.
Psalms 7:7When, the assembly of peoples, gather round thee, then, above it—on high, do thou return!
Psalms 9:15The nations, have sunk, in the pit they had made, In the net which they had hidden, is caught their own foot.
Psalms 55:15Desolations on them! Let them go down into hades alive, For, wicked doings, are at home within them.
Psalms 84:8O Yahweh, God of hosts, hear thou my prayer,—Give hear, thou God of Jacob. [Selah.]
Isaiah 27:11When the cut-off boughs thereof are dry, they shall be broken to pieces, Women, coming, are kindling it! For it is not a people of understanding, For this cause, Will he that made him, not have compassion upon him, And, he that formed him, will shew him no favour.
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 →