Psalms 59:1
To the Overseer. — 'Destroy not,' by David. — A secret treasure, in Saul's sending, and they watch the house to put him to death. Deliver me from mine enemies, O my God, From my withstanders set me on high.
Young's Literal Translation
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 workers of iniquity, And from men of blood save me.
Cross References
Judges 16:2[it is told] to the Gazathites, saying, 'Samson hath come in hither;' and they go round and lay wait for him all the night at the gate of the city, and keep themselves silent all the night, saying, 'Till the light of the morning — then we have slain him.'
Psalms 7:1'The Erring One,' by David, that he sung to Jehovah concerning the words of Cush a Benjamite. O Jehovah, my God, in Thee I have trusted, Save me from all my pursuers, and deliver me.
Psalms 18:48My deliverer from mine enemies, Above my withstanders Thou raisest me, From a man of violence dost deliver me.
Psalms 57:1To the Overseer. — 'Destroy not.' — A secret treasure of David, in his fleeing from the face of Saul into a cave. Favour me, O God, favour me, For in Thee is my soul trusting, And in the shadow of Thy wings I trust, Until the calamities pass over.
Psalms 71:4O my God, cause me to escape From the hand of the wicked, From the hand of the perverse and violent.
Psalms 143:9Deliver me from mine enemies, O Jehovah, Near Thee I am covered.
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 →