Sálmarnir 71:10

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10 Því að óvinir mínir tala um mig, þeir er sitja um líf mitt, bera ráð sín saman:

Bible Verse Review
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and they: Psalms 10:9, Psalms 56:6, Proverbs 1:11

lay wait for: Heb. watch or observe, Psalms 37:32, Psalms 37:33, 1 Samuel 19:11, Jeremiah 20:10

take: Psalms 2:2, Psalms 83:3, 2 Samuel 17:1-14, Matthew 26:3, Matthew 26:4, Matthew 27:1

Reciprocal: 1 Samuel 23:7 - God hath Psalms 31:15 - deliver Psalms 35:15 - in mine Psalms 119:42 - So shall Isaiah 36:4 - What Daniel 9:25 - restore and to build Jerusalem John 11:53 - they

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For mine enemies speak against, me,.... Or "say unto me" y what is expressed in the following verse, "God hath forsaken him"; and so these words are a reason of the above petitions: or "mine enemies speak to me"; or "of me" z; not good, but evil, and so the Targum paraphrases it,

"for mine enemies speak evil against me;''

or concerning me. David had his enemies, and many, as Ahithophel, and others, who spake against him to the people, and thereby drew many with them into rebellion against him; and particularly Shimei spoke against him, and cursed him, calling him a bloody man, a man of Belial,

2 Samuel 16:7;

and they that lay wait for my soul; or "life"; that laid snares for him; or lay in ambush, and sought for an opportunity to take away his life: or "they that keep my soul", or "life" a; that were his bodyguards that were about his person for the preservation of him; and so the Targum seems to understand it;

take counsel together; lay schemes and form plots how to destroy him, as Ahithophel did, 2 Samuel 16:20.

y אמרו לי "dixerunt mihi", Montanus. z "De me loquuti sunt, vel loquuntur", Tigurine version, Junius Tremellius, Gejerus, Michaelis. a שמרי נפשי "custodientes animam meam", Pagninus, Montanus "custodiebant", V. L.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

For mine enemies speak against me - That is, they said substantially, as it is stated in Psalms 71:11, that God had forsaken him, and that therefore, they would arise and punish him, or treat him as an outcast from God.

And they that lay wait for my soul - For my life; or, to take my life. The margin here - as the Hebrew - is, “watch,” or “observe.” The “watchers for my life;” that is, they who watch for an opportunity to take my life, or to destroy me.

Take counsel together - About the best means of accomplishing their object.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 71:10. Lay wait for my soul — They seek to destroy my life.