Psalms 59:1
Deliver me from mine enemies, O my God: set me on high from them that rise up against me.
Revised Version 1895
In The King James Version
Deliver me from mine enemies, O my God: defend me from them that rise up against me.
In Context
2Deliver me from the workers of iniquity, and save me from the bloodthirsty men.
Cross References
Judges 16:2And it was told the Gazites, saying, Samson is come hither. And they compassed him in, and laid wait for him all night in the gate of the city, and were quiet all the night, saying, Let be till morning light, then we will kill him.
Psalms 7:1O LORD my God, in thee do I put my trust: save me from all them that pursue me, and deliver me:
Psalms 18:48He rescueth me from mine enemies: yea, thou liftest me up above them that rise up against me: thou deliverest me from the violent man.
Psalms 57:1Be merciful unto me, O God, be merciful unto me; for my soul taketh refuge in thee: yea, in the shadow of thy wings will I take refuge, until these calamities be overpast.
Psalms 71:4Rescue me, O my God, out of the hand of the wicked, out of the hand of the unrighteous and cruel man.
Psalms 143:9Deliver me, O LORD, from mine enemies: I flee unto thee to hide me.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 59:1
This psalm is of the same nature and scope with six or seven foregoing psalms; they are all filled with David's complaints of the malice of his enemies and of their cursed and cruel designs against him, his prayers and prophecies against them, and his comfort and confidence in God as his God. The first is the language of nature, and may be allowed; the second of a prophetical spirit, looking forward to Christ and the enemies of his kingdom, and therefore not to be drawn into a precedent; the third of grace and a… Read the whole commentary →