תהלים 7:6

Hebrew Modern Translation

קומה יהוה באפך הנשא בעברות צוררי ועורה אלי משפט צוית׃

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Aleppo Codex
[7:7] יהוה באפך הנשא בעברות צוררי ועורה אלי משפט צוית

Biblia Hebrica Stuttgartensia (1967/77)
[7:7] ק֘וּמָ֤ה יְהוָ֨ה ׀ בְּאַפֶּ֗ךָ הִ֭נָּשֵׂא בְּעַבְרֹ֣ות צוֹרְרָ֑י וְע֥וּרָה אֵ֝לַ֗י מִשְׁפָּ֥ט צִוִּֽיתָ ׃

Westminster Leningrad Codex
[7:7] קוּמָה יְהוָה ׀ בְּאַפֶּךָ הִנָּשֵׂא בְּעַבְרוֹת צוֹרְרָי וְעוּרָה אֵלַי מִשְׁפָּט צִוִּֽיתָ ׃

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Arise: Psalms 3:7, Psalms 12:5, Psalms 35:1, Psalms 35:23, Psalms 44:26, Psalms 68:1, Psalms 68:2, Isaiah 3:13

lift up: Psalms 74:3, Psalms 94:1, Psalms 94:2, Isaiah 33:10, Isaiah 37:20

awake: Psalms 44:23, Psalms 59:5, Psalms 73:20, Psalms 78:65, Isaiah 51:9

to the: Psalms 76:8, Psalms 76:9, Psalms 103:6, 2 Samuel 17:14, *marg.

Reciprocal: Judges 4:6 - Hath 2 Samuel 18:19 - avenged him 2 Kings 19:28 - thy rage 1 Chronicles 12:17 - God 2 Chronicles 20:12 - wilt Job 31:14 - What then Psalms 6:10 - Let all Psalms 9:19 - Arise Psalms 10:12 - Arise Psalms 17:13 - Arise Psalms 82:8 - Arise Psalms 102:13 - Thou Psalms 119:43 - for I have Psalms 119:84 - when Psalms 142:7 - the righteous Isaiah 2:19 - when he Joel 3:12 - for Micah 7:9 - until 2 Corinthians 5:10 - we

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Arise, O Lord, in thine anger,.... This and the following phrase do not suppose local motion in God, to whom it cannot belong, being infinite and immense, but are spoken of him after the manner of men, who seems sometimes as though he had laid himself down, and was unconcerned about and took no notice of human affairs, of the insults of the wicked and the oppressions of the righteous; wherefore the psalmist beseeches him to "arise", which he may be said to do when he comes forth in his power in the defence of his people, and against their enemies; see Psalms 12:5; and he also prays him to arise in anger, to show himself displeased, and give some tokens of his resentment, by letting his enemies feel the lighting down of his arm with the indignation of his anger;

lift up thyself, because of the rage of mine enemies; ascend the throne of judgment, and there sit judging right; show thyself to be the Judge of the earth, high and lifted up; let it appear that thou art above all mine enemies, higher and more powerful than they; stop their rage, break the force of their fury, lift up a standard against them, who, likes mighty flood, threaten to bear all before them: or "lift up thyself in rage", or "fierce wrath, because of", or "against mine enemies" y: and so the sense is the same as before; and this way go many of the Jewish interpreters z;

and awake for me [to] the judgment [that] thou hast commanded; not that sleep falls upon God, for the keeper of Israel neither slumbers nor sleeps; nor does it fall on any but corporeal beings, not upon angels, nor the souls of men, much less on God; but he sometimes in his providence seems to lie dormant and inactive, as if he disregarded what is done in this world; and therefore his people address him as if he was asleep, and call upon him to arise to their help and assistance; see Psalms 44:23; and so David here, "awake for me", that is, hasten to come to me and help me; suggesting that he was in great distress and danger, by reason of his enemies, should he delay coming to him. By "judgment" is either meant the vengeance which God had ordered him to execute upon his enemies, as Jarchi interprets it, and therefore he entreats him to arise and put him in a capacity of doing it; or else his innocence, and the vindication of it, which God had promised him, and then the petition is much the same with Psalms 7:8. But the generality of Jewish a writers understand it of the kingdom which God had appointed for him, and for which he was anointed by Samuel; and who had told Saul that God had found a man after his own heart, whom he had "commanded" to be captain over his people, 1 Samuel 13:14; wherefore the psalmist prays that God would hasten the fulfilment of his purpose and promise, and set him on the throne, that so he might administer justice and judgment to the people.

y בעברות צודרי "in furore contra hostes meos", Mariana; "gravissimo furore percitus in eos qui me opprimunt", Junius & Tremellius. z Targum, Jarchi, & Kimchi, in loc. a R. Moses in Aben Ezra in loc. R. Obadiah Gaon, Kimchi, & Ben Melech in loc.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arise, O Lord, in thine anger - That is, to punish him who thus unjustly persecutes me. See the notes at Psalms 3:7.

Lift up thyself - As if he had been lying in repose and inaction. The idea is derived from a warrior who is called on to go forth and meet an enemy.

Because of the rage of mine enemies - Not only of this particular enemy, but of those who were associated with him, and perhaps of all his foes. David felt, on this occasion, that he was surrounded by enemies; and he calls on God to interfere and save him.

And awake for me - Or, in my behalf. The word “awake” is a still stronger expression than those which he had before used. It implies that one had been asleep, and insensible to what had occurred, and he addresses God “as if” He had thus been insensible to the dangers which surrounded him.

To the judgment that thou hast commanded - To execute the judgment which thou hast appointed or ordered. That is, God had, in his law, commanded that justice should be done, and had proclaimed himself a God of justice - requiring that right should be done on the earth, and declaring himself in all cases the friend of right. David now appeals to him, and calls on him to manifest himself in that character, as executing in this case the justice which he required under the great principles of his administration. He had commanded justice to be done in all cases. He had required that the wicked should be punished. He had ordered magistrates to execute justice. In accordance with these great principles, David now calls on God to manifest “himself” as the friend of justice, and to show, in this case, the same principles, and the same regard to justice which he required in others. It is an earnest petition that he would vindicate his own principles of administration.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 7:6. Arise, O Lord, in thine anger — To thee I commit my cause; arise, and sit on the throne of thy judgment in my behalf.