the Week of Proper 19 / Ordinary 24
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Psalms 63:10
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They will be delivered over to the power of the sword;They will be a portion for foxes.
They will be delivered over to the power of the sword; They will be a prey for foxes.
And they [that] seeke my soule to oppresse [it]: shall go vnder the earth.
They shall be given over to the power of the sword; they shall be the portion of foxes.
They shall fall by the sword; They shall be a portion for jackals.
They shall pour him out by the sword; they shall be a serving for jackals.
They shall be given over to the power of the sword. They shall be jackal food.
They shall fall by the sword: they shall be a portion for foxes.
They shall fall by the sword: they shall be a portion for foxes.
They seke after my soule, but in vayne, for they shal go vnder the earth.
They will be given over to the power of the sword; They will be a prey for foxes.
They shall be given over to the power of the sword: They shall be a portion for foxes.
They will be cut off by the sword; they will be food for foxes.
They shall be given over to the power of the sword: They shall be a portion for foxes.
They shall fall by the sword: they shall be a portion for foxes.
Each one will be handed over to the sword; their corpses will be eaten by jackals.
Swords will run them through, and wild dogs will eat them.
But those who seek to destroy my life — may they go to the lowest parts of the earth.
They shall cast him downe with the edge of the sword, and they shall be a portion for foxes.
They shall fall by the sword; they shall be a portion for foxes.
They shall be given over to the power of the sword. They shall be jackal food.
But those that seek my soul, to destroy it, shall go into the nethermost parts of the earth.
They will die by the sword and become the food of jackals.
They will be given over to the power of the sword. They will become food for foxes.
They shall be delivered up to the power of the sword; they shall be portions for foxes.
They shall be given over to the power of the sword: they shall be a portion for foxes.
They will fall to the power of the sword; they will become the portion of jackals.
they shall be given over to the power of the sword, they shall be prey for jackals.
Every one shall be given up into the power of the sword, The portion of jackals, shall they become.
(62-11) They shall be delivered into the hands of the sword, they shall be the portions of foxes.
They who would deliver him to the sword will become a portion for jackals.
they shall be given over to the power of the sword; they shall be a portion for jackals.
They will be turned over to the power of the sword; They will be a prey for foxes.
They will be killed with swords and eaten by wild dogs.
They will be killed in battle, and their bodies eaten by wolves.
They will be given over to the power of the sword; they will become the jackals' prey.
thei schulen be bitakun in to the hondis of swerd, thei schulen be maad the partis of foxis.
They cause him to run on the edge of the sword, A portion for foxes they are.
they shall be given over to the power of the sword, they shall be prey for jackals.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
They shall fall: etc. Heb. They shall make him run out, like water, by the hands of the sword, 1 Samuel 26:10, 1 Samuel 31:1-6, Jeremiah 18:21, Ezekiel 35:5
a portion: Song of Solomon 2:15, Ezekiel 39:4, Ezekiel 39:17-20, Revelation 19:17, Revelation 19:18
Reciprocal: Judges 15:4 - caught three 2 Samuel 4:8 - sought 2 Samuel 18:9 - taken up Ezekiel 31:14 - the nether Ezekiel 32:4 - General
Gill's Notes on the Bible
They shall fall by the sword,.... As Saul, his sons, and mighty men, did, 1 Samuel 31:4; or, "they shall make him pour out" u; that is, his blood, "by the hands" or "[means] of the sword"; meaning either some principal enemy, as Saul in particular, or everyone of his enemies; who should be thrust with the sword, their blood let out, and they slain: so antichrist, the enemy of David's son, will be put to death in this manner, Revelation 13:10;
they shall be a portion for foxes; falling in desolate places where foxes run, and so become the food of them, and have no other burial. The foxes hunt after dead carcasses, and will find them out where they are, in holes and ditches; as appears from the case of Aristomenes, related by Pausanias w: so the followers of antichrist, their flesh will be eaten by the fowls of heaven, Revelation 19:17.
u יגירהו "fundere facient eum", Montanus; so Junius & Tremellius, Piscator, Schmidt. w Messenica, sive l. 4. p. 251.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
They shall fall by the sword - Margin, They shall make him run out like water by the hands of the sword. The word rendered in the text “they shall fall,” and in the margin “they shall make him run out” - נגר nâgar - means properly, to flow, to pour out, as water; and then, to pour out; then, to give up or deliver. The idea here is that of delivering over, as one pours out water from a basin or pitcher: they shall be delivered over to the sword. The original rendered “sword” is, as in the margin, “by the hands of the sword;” that is, the sword is represented as accomplishing its purpose as if it had hands. The sword shall slay them.
They shall be a portion for foxes - The original word - שׁועל shû‛âl - means properly and commonly a fox. But under this general name fox, the Orientals seem to have comprehended other animals also, having some resemblance to a fox, and particularly jackals. Thus jackals seem to be meant in Judges 15:4; since foxes are with great difficulty taken alive; and in this place also it has the same meaning, inasmuch as foxes do not feast on dead bodies, though a favorite repast of the jackal. Gesenius, Lexicon. Compare Bochart Hieroz. T. ii. p. 190, ed. Lips. Jackals are wild, fierce, savage; they howl around dwellings at night - producing most hideous music, beginning “in a sort of solo, a low, long-drawn wail, rising and swelling higher and higher until it quite overtops the wind,” (Thomson’s “Land and the Book,” i. 133) - and ready to gather at any moment when there is prey to be devoured. “These sinister, guilty, wo-begone brutes, when pressed with hunger, gather in gangs among the graves, and yell in rage, and fight like fiends over their midnight orgies; but on the battlefield is their great carnival. Oh! let me never even dream that anyone dear to me has fallen by the sword, and lies there to be torn, and gnawed at, and dragged about by these hideous howlers.”
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Psalms 63:10. They shall fall by the sword — They shall be poured out by the hand of the sword, Heb. That is, their life's blood shall be shed either in war, or by the hand of justice.
They shall be a portion for foxes. — They shall be left unburied, and the jackals shall feed upon their dead bodies. Or, being all cut off by utter destruction, their inheritance shall be left for the wild beasts. That which was their portion shall shortly be the portion of the wild beasts of the forest. If he here refers to the destruction of the Babylonians, the prediction has been literally fulfilled. Where ancient Babylon stood, as far as it can be ascertained, is now the hold of dangerous reptiles and ferocious beasts. The jackal, or chokal, is a very ravenous beast, and fond of human flesh. It devours dead bodies, steals infants out of the lap of their mothers, devours alive the sick who are left by the side of the Ganges, and even in the streets of Calcutta has been known to eat persons who were in a state of intoxication. WARD'S Customs.
