Psalms 59:4
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.
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 transgressors. Selah.
6 They return at evening: they make a noise like a dog, and go round about the city.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- For no fault of my own, they move swiftly to attack me. Arise to help me, and take notice.
- KJV
- They run and prepare themselves without my fault: awake to help me, and behold.
- WEB
- I have done no wrong, yet they are ready to attack me. Rise up, behold, and help me!
- ASV
- They run and prepare themselves without [my] fault: Awake thou to help me, and behold.
- DARBY
- They run and prepare themselves without [my] fault: awake to meet me, and behold.
- BLB
- Without [my] fault, they run and prepare themselves. Awake to help me, and see!
- ÅB
- Uten brøde hos meg stormer de fram og stiller seg opp; våkn opp for å møte meg, og se til!
- OTB
- Uten noen skyld fra min side, løper de og tar stilling mot meg.
Reis Deg for å hjelpe meg, og se! - B1930
- Uten brøde hos mig stormer de frem og stiller sig op; våkn op for å møte mig, og se til!
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Psalms 35:23
Stir up thyself, and awake to my judgment, even unto my cause, my God and my Lord.
Read in contextProverbs 1:16
For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood.
Read in contextPsalms 5:6
Thou shalt destroy them that speak leasing: the LORD will abhor the bloody and deceitful man.
Read in contextActs 23:15
Now therefore ye with the council signify to the chief captain that he bring him down unto you to morrow, as though ye would enquire something more perfectly concerning him: and we, or ever he come near, are ready to kill him.
Read in context1 Samuel 19:12–24
So Michal let David down through a window: and he went, and fled, and escaped.
Read in contextPsalms 35:19
Let not them that are mine enemies wrongfully rejoice over me: neither let them wink with the eye that hate me without a cause.
Read in contextRomans 3:15
Their feet are swift to shed blood:
Read in contextPsalms 44:23
Awake, why sleepest thou, O Lord? arise, cast us not off for ever.
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