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Psalms 54:3
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For strangers rise up against me,and violent men intend to kill me.They do not let God guide them.Selah
For strangers have risen up against me. Violent men have sought after my soul. They haven't set God before them. Selah.
For strangers are risen up against me, and oppressors seek after my soul: they have not set God before them. Selah.
For strangers have risen against me; ruthless men seek my life; they do not set God before themselves. Selah
Strangers turn against me, and cruel people want to kill me. They do not care about God. Selah
For foreigners attack me; ruthless men, who do not respect God, seek my life. (Selah)
For strangers have risen against me And violent men have sought my life; They have not set God before them. Selah.
For strangers have risen against me And violent men have sought my life; They have not set God before them. Selah
For strangers have risen up against me. Violent men have sought after my soul. They haven't set God before them. Selah.
For strangers are risen vp against me, and tyrants seeke my soule: they haue not set God before them. Selah.
For strangers have risen against meAnd ruthless men have sought my life;They have not set God before them. Selah.
For strangers rise up against me, and ruthless men seek my life-men with no regard for God. Selah
Cruel strangers have attacked and want me dead. Not one of them cares about you.
God, deliver me by your name; in your power, vindicate me.
For strangers are risen up against me, and the violent seek after my life: they have not set God before them. Selah.
Strangers who don't even think about God have turned against me. Those powerful men are trying to kill me. Selah
For strangers are risen up against me, and the mighty seek after my life; they have disregarded thee, O God.
Proud people are coming to attack me; cruel people are trying to kill me— those who do not care about God.
For foreigners have risen against me, and ruthless men seek my life. They have not set God before them. Selah
For strangers have risen up against me; and terrifying men seek after my soul; they have not set God before them. Selah.
For straungers are rysen vp agaynst me, and the mightie (which haue not God before their eyes) seke after my soule.
For strangers are risen up against me, And violent men have sought after my soul: They have not set God before them. Selah
For men who are going after me have come out against me, violent men are purposing to take my soul; they have not put God before their eyes. (Selah.)
O God, save me by Thy name, and right me by Thy might.
For strangers are risen vp against me, and oppressors seeke after my soule; they haue not set God before them. Selah.
For straungers are rysen vp against me: and tirauntes whiche haue not the Lorde before their eyes, seeke after my soule. Selah.
For strangers have risen up against me, and mighty men have sought my life: they have not set God before them. Pause.
For strangers are risen up against me, and violent men have sought after my soul: they have not set God before them. Selah
For aliens han rise ayens me, and stronge men souyten my lijf; and thei settiden not God bifor her siyt.
For strangers have risen up against me, And violent men have sought after my soul: They have not set God before them. Selah.
For strangers have risen up against me, and oppressors seek after my soul: they have not set God before them. Selah.
For strangers are attacking me; violent people are trying to kill me. They care nothing for God. Interlude
For strangers have risen against me. And men who hurt others want to take my life. They do not think about God.
For the insolent have risen against me, the ruthless seek my life; they do not set God before them. Selah
For, aliens, have risen up against me, And, men of violence, have sought my life, They have not set God before them. Selah.
(53-5) For strangers have risen up against me; and the mighty have sought after my soul: and they have not set God before their eyes.
For insolent men have risen against me, ruthless men seek my life; they do not set God before them. [Selah]
For strangers have risen up against me And terrible ones have sought my soul, They have not set God before them. Selah.
Outlaws are out to get me, hit men are trying to kill me. Nothing will stop them; God means nothing to them.
For strangers have risen against me And violent men have sought my life; They have not set God before them. Selah.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
strangers: Psalms 69:8, Psalms 86:14, Job 19:13-15
oppressors: Psalms 22:16, Psalms 59:3-5, Matthew 27:20-23
they have: Psalms 16:8, Psalms 36:1, Psalms 53:4, John 16:3
Reciprocal: 1 Samuel 23:14 - Saul 1 Samuel 23:19 - the Ziphites 1 Samuel 23:20 - our part Psalms 55:3 - oppression Psalms 59:5 - the heathen Psalms 63:7 - Because Psalms 143:3 - the enemy Psalms 144:7 - the hand
Gill's Notes on the Bible
For strangers are risen up against me,.... Meaning such as Doeg the Edomite, or Heathen soldiers, that Saul had hired and took into his army, who were aliens from the commonwealth of Israel; and such as these rose up against David's antitype, the Messiah, Psalms 2:1 Acts 4:27. Or rather the Ziphims, who were of his own nation, yea, of his own tribe, yet used him as barbarously as the very Heathens would have done, or worse; and who, though notwithstanding they were of Israel, might not be Israelites indeed, but strangers to an inward experience of divine and spiritual things: for men may be professors of religion, and yet be strangers to God in Christ, to Christ himself, and the way of salvation by him, and communion with him; to the Spirit of God, and the operations of his grace on the heart; to themselves, their own hearts, and their state and condition by nature; to the Gospel of Christ, and to the people of God; and these are sometimes the most violent persecutors of good and spiritual men;
and oppressors seek after my soul; or "life" i, to take it away; as did Saul and his army; who are "the mighty" or "strong ones" k, as the word here used signifies; see 1 Samuel 24:11; and as the Jewish sanhedrim, Scribes and Pharisees, sought after the soul or life of Christ, to take that away, as they did;
they have not set God before them. They did not consider themselves as under the omniscient eye of God; they did not set his word before them, as the rule of their conduct, but cast it behind their backs; nor did they regard his providential mercies and layouts as a motive to engage them to obedience to him, but despised them; they had not the fear of God before their eyes, nor in their hearts, nor any concern for his glory; and therefore did the wicked things they did against his servant.
Selah; on this word, 1 Samuel 24:11- :.
i נפשי "vitam meam", Junius Tremellius, Michaelis. k עריצים "fortes", V. L. Pagninus, Musculus, Gejerus "praepotentes", Vatablus.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
For strangers are risen up against me - That is, foreigners; those of another nation or land. Saul and his friends who sought the life of David were his own countrymen; these persons who sought go betray him were another people. They attempted to gain the favor of Saul, or to secure a reward from him, by betraying to him an innocent man whom he was persecuting.
And oppressors seek after my soul - Seek after my life. The word here rendered “oppressors” means people of violence; the proud; the haughty; persecutors; tyrants. The word properly denotes those who exert their power in an arbitrary manner, or not under the sanction of law.
They have not set God before them - They do not act as in the presence of God. They do not regard his authority. See the notes at Psalms 36:1. The word “Selah” here merely marks a musical pause. It indicates nothing in regard to the sense.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Psalms 54:3. Strangers are risen up against me — The Ziphites.
And oppressors — Saul, his courtiers, and his army.
They have not set God before them. — It is on no religious account, nor is it to accomplish any end, on which they can ask the blessing of God.
Selah. — This is true.
