Psalms 59:10

Easy-to-Read Version

God loves me, and he will help me win. He will help me defeat my enemies.

Parallel Translations

New Living Translation
In his unfailing love, my God will stand with me. He will let me look down in triumph on all my enemies.

English Revised Version
The God of my mercy shall prevent me: God shall let me see my desire upon mine enemies.

Update Bible Version
My God with his loving-kindness will meet me: God will let me see [my desire] on my enemies.

New Century Version
My God loves me, and he goes in front of me. He will help me defeat my enemies.

New English Translation
The God who loves me will help me; God will enable me to triumph over my enemies.

Webster's Bible Translation
The God of my mercy will succor me: God will let me see [my desire] upon my enemies.

World English Bible
My God will go before me with his lovingkindness. God will let me look at my enemies in triumph.

Amplified Bible
My God in His [steadfast] lovingkindness will meet me; God will let me look triumphantly on my enemies [who lie in wait for me].

English Standard Version
My God in his steadfast love will meet me; God will let me look in triumph on my enemies.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
for God is myn vptaker, my God, his mercy schal come byfore me.

Berean Standard Bible
My God of loving devotion will come to meet me; God will let me stare down my foes.

Contemporary English Version
You love me and will let me see my enemies defeated.

American Standard Version
My God with his lovingkindness will meet me: God will let me see my desire upon mine enemies.

Bible in Basic English
The God of my mercy will go before me: God will let me see my desire effected on my haters.

Complete Jewish Bible
My Strength, I will watch for you, for God is my fortress.

Darby Translation
God, whose loving-kindness will come to meet me,—God shall let me see [my desire] upon mine enemies.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
Because of his strength, I will wait for Thee; for God is my high tower.

King James Version (1611)
The God of my mercy shall preuent me; God shall let mee see my desire vpon mine enemies.

New Life Bible
My God in His loving-kindness will meet me. God will let me look at those who come against me and know that I will win the fight.

New Revised Standard
My God in his steadfast love will meet me; my God will let me look in triumph on my enemies.

Geneva Bible (1587)
My mercifull God will preuent me: God wil let me see my desire vpon mine enemies.

George Lamsa Translation
O God, thy lovingkindness has preceded me; God has let me live to see my enemies avenged.

Good News Translation
My God loves me and will come to me; he will let me see my enemies defeated.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
My God of lovingkindness, will come to meet me, God, will let me look on mine adversaries.

Douay-Rheims Bible
(58-11) My God, his mercy shall prevent me.

Revised Standard Version
My God in his steadfast love will meet me; my God will let me look in triumph on my enemies.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
My mercifull Lord wyll preuent me: the Lord will let me see [my desire] vpon mine enemies.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
As for my God, his mercy shall go before me: my God will shew me vengeance on mine enemies.

Christian Standard Bible®
My faithful God will come to meet me;God will let me look down on my adversaries.

Hebrew Names Version
My God will go before me with his lovingkindness. God will let me look at my enemies in triumph.

King James Version
The God of my mercy shall prevent me: God shall let me see my desire upon mine enemies.

Lexham English Bible
My God of loyal love will meet me; God will cause me to look in triumph on my enemies.

Literal Translation
The God of my mercy shall go before me; God shall let me see my desire on my enemies.

Young's Literal Translation
God doth go before me, He causeth me to look on mine enemies.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
God sheweth me his goodnesse plenteously, God letteth me se my desyre vpo myne enemies.

New American Standard Bible
My God in His faithfulness will meet me; God will let me look triumphantly upon my enemies.

New King James Version
My God of mercy [fn] shall come to meet me;God shall let me see my desire on my enemies.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
My God in His lovingkindness will meet me; God will let me look triumphantly upon my foes.

Legacy Standard Bible
My God in His lovingkindness will approach me;God will let me look triumphantly upon my foes.

Contextual Overview

⁸ Lord , laugh at them. Make fun of them all. ⁹ God, my strength, I look to you for help. You are my place of safety, high in the mountains. ¹⁰ God loves me, and he will help me win. He will help me defeat my enemies. ¹¹ Don't just kill them, or my people might forget. My Lord and Protector, scatter and defeat them with your strength. ¹² Those evil people curse and tell lies. Punish them for what they said. Let their pride trap them. ¹³ Destroy them in your anger. Destroy them completely! Then people all over the world will know that God rules over the people of Jacob. Selah ¹⁴ Those evil men are like dogs that come into town in the evening, growling and roaming the streets. ¹⁵ They roam around looking for food, but even if they eat their fill, they still growl and complain. ¹⁶ But I will sing about your strength. I will rejoice in your love every morning. You have been my place of safety, the place I can run to when troubles come. ¹⁷ I will sing praises to you, my source of strength. You, God, are my place of safety. You are the God who loves me!

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

The God: Psalms 59:17, 2 Corinthians 1:3, Ephesians 2:4, Ephesians 2:5, 1 Peter 5:10

prevent: Psalms 21:3, Psalms 79:8, Isaiah 65:24, 1 Thessalonians 4:15

let: Psalms 54:7, Psalms 91:8, Psalms 92:11, Psalms 112:8, 1 Samuel 26:10, 2 Samuel 1:11, 2 Samuel 1:12, 2 Samuel 1:17, Jeremiah 17:16, Luke 19:41-44, Romans 10:2, Romans 10:3

enemies: Heb. observers, Psalms 5:8, Psalms 54:5, *marg. Psalms 56:2, Psalms 56:6

Reciprocal: Exodus 14:30 - saw Psalms 56:1 - Be Psalms 59:16 - But Psalms 118:7 - therefore Jeremiah 20:12 - let me Obadiah 1:12 - looked

Gill's Notes on the Bible

The God of my mercy shall prevent me,.... Or "of my grace", or "goodness", as the Targum; see 1 Peter 5:10. God is gracious in himself, and he has treasured up a fulness of grace in Christ: he is the donor of all the blessings of grace in the covenant; and the author of all internal grace in the hearts of his people; and who supplies them with more grace as they want it; and he is the Father of all temporal and spiritual mercies. The "Cetib", or writing, is חסדו, "his mercy"; the "Keri", or reading, is חסדי, "my mercy"; grace or mercy is the Lord's; it is his own, which he disposes of as he pleases; being given and applied, it is the believer's; all the grace and mercy in the heart of God, in his Son, and in his covenant, is the saints', which he keeps for them with Christ for evermore; "the God of my mercy", or "grace", is the same with "my merciful", or "my gracious God"; who goes before his people, as he does the Messiah, with the blessings of his goodness, Psalms 21:3. It may be rendered, "hath came before me"; and denote the antiquity of his love, being before his people's to him, and the early provisions of his grace and mercy for them: or "doth prevent me": expressing the freeness of it; he not waiting for any duties, services, or conditions to be performed, but bestows his grace and mercy, notwithstanding much unworthiness: or "shall come before me"; designing the seasonable and timely application of mercy come before his fears, as it sometimes does the prayers of his people, Isaiah 65:24;

God shall let me see [my desire] upon mine enemies; expressed in the following verses, Psalms 59:11; or "vengeance upon them"; as the Targum paraphrases it; see Psalms 58:10.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The God of my mercy shall prevent me - Or rather, “My God - his mercy shall prevent me.” This is in accordance with the present reading of the Hebrew text, and is probably correct. The psalmist looks to God as his God, and then the feeling at once springs up that his mercy - favor - his loving-kindness - “would” “prevent” him. On the word “prevent” see the notes at Psalms 21:3; compare Psalms 17:13; Psalms 18:5. The meaning here is, that God would “go before him,” or would “anticipate” his necessities.

God shall let me see my desire upon mine enemies - That is, He will let me see them discomfited, and disappointed in their plans. This is equivalent to saying that God would give him the victory, or would not suffer them to triumph over him. See the notes at Psalms 54:7.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 59:10. The God of my mercy shall prevent me — The mercy of God shall go before me, and thus help me in all my doings.

God shall let me see my desire] The sentence is short. God will let me see concerning my enemies, i.e., how he will treat them.